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Shop NowOne of Union Pacific Railroad’s freight trains made the mistake of stopping in the West Side of Chicago. While idling at an interchange, a “mob of some 30 people” looted it clean. The merchandise was already selling on the internet by the time police started making arrests.
Chicago looting spree
On Friday, October 18, a local gang “looted a freight train in Chicago while it was stopped at an interchange on the city’s West Side.” That, Law Enforcement Today reports, is “another example of the nationwide crime spree that the administration has tried to downplay.”
Democrat city administration is just as impotent. They’re belatedly realizing the value of police but still haven’t started actually prosecuting or jailing anyone for committing crimes. Even the violent ones.
According to Chicago police, “the gang, some of whom were armed, pried open container doors in broad daylight at around 2:40 p.m.” They swarmed the freight cars like ants to scurry away with air fryers and flatscreen televisions.
Law Enforcement captured the entire looting spree on video from their chopper. Nobody bothered to intervene as armed pirates cracked open the cargo containers with bolt cutters to hijack box after box of booty.
Apparently, the delay at the interchange connecting to a partner railroad happens regularly enough to make the shipment a target. It seems that the criminals were well prepared for the opportunity.
Chicago cops note that they’re getting better at it with practice. Radio traffic indicates that the police watched them loot trains before. “ABC-7 reported a similar theft in August.”
Getting creative
“They’re getting creative. They’re bringing a U-Haul to the alley now,” one officer of the Chicago PD observed on police radio.
After extracting the freight from the train cars, the looters efficiently “loaded the stolen goods into several awaiting vehicles, including a white box truck that showed up to enable them to store their loot and drive off.” That was a new development.
Footage from the air captures the moment Chicago PD arrived on the scene, “drawing their weapons as they accosted the criminal thugs.” Witnesses remarked it was about time the cops got there. The looting had been going full throttle for an hour by then. Union Pacific isn’t happy about the incident.
“Rail burglaries are not victimless crimes, and they pose a safety threat to the public, our employees, and local law enforcement officers,” Their spokesperson declares.
Chicago prosecutors refuse to put criminals behind bars because that would be “racist.” they insist. That means the few police they have can make arrests but the criminals will be back to work within hours. As long as the door keeps revolving, the criminals will keep committing armed train-jackings.
Commuters also had to suffer, they were held up and held hostage. It didn’t cost them a dime of their cash but “as a result of the incident, passenger traffic on the line was stopped at around 4:40 p.m.,” Metra announced, noting that both inbound and outbound Union Pacific West Line trains were stopped due to “ongoing police activity.” They didn’t get rolling again until 6:50 p.m. for the luckiest passengers. “It remained suspended between Maywood and Chicago.“
