'The videos I saw, that activity on the streets downtown, are just disgusting, awful, terrible. Violence is never acceptable. Those circumstances and the destruction of property is not a constitutional right or freedom of expression -- unacceptable,' he said.
Sen. Durbin called this past weekend's downtown violence "disgusting, awful, terrible," especially after securing the DNC Chicago 2024.Illinois' senior Sen. Dick Durbin has a blistering assessment of last weekend's disorder in the downtown.
When the violent scenes began popping on phones and TVs worldwide last weekend, the timing couldn't have been worse. It would be difficult to spot the positive and good in what happened in Chicago's Loop. Swarms of young people quickly overtook cops and the streets.RELATED: Couple attacked in weekend chaos claim police did not aid them; CPD launches internal investigation
Fifty five years later, Chicago is still living down scenes from the 1968 Democratic convention, where clashes erupted between anti-war protesters and CPD officers.
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