A group of African-American residents, infuriated by violence and looting taking place in Chicago pushed back against a Black Lives Matter protest Wednesday.
Looting erupted across Chicago after the shooting of a black teen Sunday night.
Protests then came to the largely black neighborhood of Englewood. That’s where residents pushed back.
“If you ain’t from Englewood, get the F*** out of here,” longtime neighborhood resident Darryl Smith told protesters.
“Y’all don’t come out when a kid gets shot. Y’all come out when it’s got something to do with the f—ing police,” Smith yelled through a loudspeaker
“First time they heard something he was 15. He got shot and a lady got shot. It goes to social media and you have to learn the facts, you have to have facts in this matter,” Smith added.
“None of these motherf—ers are gonna be here tomorrow. That’s why I got a problem,” lifelong Englewood resident Duane Kidd, 42, told the Sun-Times.
“If they would’ve gotten something incited with the police, who’s gotta deal with it tomorrow? The community. Not them. They’ll be somewhere sipping sangria somewhere. I’m telling you like it is.”
“A lot of people saying the looting started because of Englewood. We are tired of Englewood getting a black eye, those people were opportunist,” Smith added.