@ben_platt_wave@DavidHarrisAD all due respect - but as an alumn I feel like we need some sort of statement on the point saving and NIL for the football team
A Muslim immigrant burning holocaust survivors alive in Colorado wasn’t enough.
A Muslim immigrant executing National Guardsmen in Washington wasn’t enough.
Muslim immigrants attacking and killing non-Muslims in Australia wasn’t enough.
9/11 wasn’t enough.
October 7th wasn’t enough.
Now the @FBI has announced they have arrested five Muslim terrorists who were planning Muslim terror attacks on New Year’s Eve in Los Angeles and New Orleans.
This has to stop.
Diversity is not our strength. Diversity has become suicidal.
It is time for a Muslim travel ban, radical deportations of all mainstream Muslim legal and illegal immigrants, and citizenship revocations wherever possible.
Mainstream Muslims have declared war on us. The least we can do is kick them the hell out of America.
The Democrat Party is organized around one essential command:
No limit of any kind can be placed on the entry of third world migrants. The failed states of the world must be allowed to empty themselves out into America. And you must pay for their every need, forever.
In just the last 12 hours, President Trump has:
-Paused *ALL* 3rd world immigration.
-Called for deporting millions of illegal and LEGAL immigrants who hate America.
-Stopped all funding to South Africa for targeting white farmers.
THIS IS WHAT WE VOTED FOR🔥
The Wieners Circle, an iconic hotdog stand on the north side of Chicago, promised free hotdogs for everyone if Bears HC Ben Johnson took off his shirt. Well….hot dogs, anyone?
Downtown Chicago Terrorism, Vagrancy and Endangerment ... the Loop Has Become a Dangerous Death Zone by @drkugler
https://t.co/MPWurl8WVM® Crime Report | Nov 20, 2025
Downtown Chicago is no longer a business district, a tourist hub, or a transportation center. It is an open-air danger zone where Chicagoans, commuters, and visitors are routinely attacked, burned, shot, beaten, or terrorized in broad daylight — and the city pretends none of this is happening.
On November 19, 2025, during a https://t.co/MPWurl8WVM live feed from Lake & Dearborn, a vagrant stepped forward and hurled a drink at my vehicle. It was midday. It was unprovoked.
And it was caught on video — one more example of a downtown public environment that has completely collapsed from constant unchecked disorder.
This happened less than 48 hours after a woman was burned alive aboard a CTA Blue Line train at Clark/Lake — an attack so extreme it triggered shock statements from City Hall, with Mayor Johnson calling it “an isolated incident” even as the record shows years of escalating downtown violence.
To understand how we got here, you look at the record — the real record, the one Chicago’s political class refuses to acknowledge.
In May 2022, Joseph “Walking Man” Kromelis was set on fire while sleeping on Lower Wabash. He died months later from the burns. His killer wasn’t sentenced until late 2024. Chicago never reckoned with what happened to him.
By late 2023, Michigan Avenue was a battlefield.
On November 13, 2023, a visiting flight attendant walking near Burberry was struck in the head with a heavy birch log thrown by a mentally ill offender. She collapsed unconscious with severe skull and brain injuries.
Two days later, on November 15, 2023, 24-year-old Andrew Hulburt was murdered outside the House of Blues in River North.
On January 26, 2024, two Innovations High School students — 17-year-old Monterio Williams and 16-year-old Robert Boston — were executed on Wabash when gunmen stepped out of two cars and opened fire. More than two dozen rounds. Early afternoon. Children leaving school. A woman walking by had her jacket grazed by a bullet. It took a full year before the first suspect was charged.
In June 2024, a Streeterville couple was beaten near Grand & McClurg by a group of teens in a random attack recorded and posted online.
By 2025, downtown violence had accelerated.
On April 7, 2025, CPD shot a knife-wielding man inside the Courtyard Marriott lobby in River North at 2:30 p.m.
On June 20, 2025, a man was shot outside Lou Malnati’s on Wells Street during dinner hours, sending crowds scrambling.
Then came the Loop Puncher.
Between September 21 and October 9, 2025, Derek Rucker carried out a confirmed series of assaults across the CTA and downtown:
punching a woman on the Loyola platform,
spitting on another at Wilson,
assaulting a commuter between Addison and Belmont,
striking an officer at St. Francis Hospital,
and punching a woman at Ohio & State.
Then November arrived.
On November 17, 2025, a woman was set on fire aboard a CTA Blue Line train at Clark/Lake — a terror-level attack inside the city’s busiest station.
Two days later, on November 19, the vagrant at Lake & Dearborn threw a drink at my vehicle during a https://t.co/MPWurl8WVM live-feed. A small incident compared to the murders and the arsons — but it shows the same collapse:
Downtown Chicago is no longer a functioning public space.
It is a dangerous death zone.
Politicians can deny it.
Contractors can hide it.
Tourism boards can sugarcoat it.
But the truth is being recorded — incident after incident, year after year — and https://t.co/MPWurl8WVM will keep documenting it.
MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON’S STATEMENTS
Reporting by: Alice Yin
10:01 AM · Nov 20, 2025
“This is an isolated incident, and I don't see this as some sort of trend… I trust that the federal level will do its part.”
10:03 AM · Nov 20, 2025
“As awful and horrific as this tragedy is, this is an isolated incident… as we continue to invest more in our public transportation system, we want people to feel safe.”
1:01 PM · Nov 20, 2025
“I want to reiterate my shock as well as my horror… This is an absolute failure of our criminal justice system as well as our mental health systems.”
1:02 PM · Nov 20, 2025
“He was clearly seriously mentally disturbed and was a danger… This is a horrific tragedy that should have never happened.”
Source List
Joseph “Walking Man” Kromelis – Fatal Arson Attack (25 May 2022)
https://t.co/b5cEeEcywT
Mag Mile Log Attack – Flight Attendant Bludgeoned (13 November 2023)
https://t.co/Fy8f1HM4k6
House of Blues Murder – Andrew Hulburt (15 November 2023)
https://t.co/CuOaKTjUEz
Double Loop Murder – Innovations High School Students (26 January 2024)
https://t.co/0mmVrI5Aqi
Streeterville Couple Attack (3 June 2024)
https://t.co/73O8q98odI
Courtyard Marriott River North – Police-Involved Shooting (7 April 2025)
https://t.co/Oeekw2xPFw
Lou Malnati’s River North Shooting (20 June 2025)
https://t.co/aqayTdsv00
Loop Puncher Derek Rucker ��� Series of Attacks (21 September – 9 October 2025)
https://t.co/7ZTqAJpDzI
CTA Blue Line Fire Attack – Woman Set on Fire (17 November 2025)
https://t.co/uNw1xSvYhP
https://t.co/MPWurl8WVM Incident – Drink Thrown at Vehicle, Lake & Dearborn (19 November 2025) Chicago Economy Crime & News Update — 4:05 p.m., 19 November 2025 (Video at 33:55)
https://t.co/PKKnAAGEGM
My Shock as well My Horror .... Mayor asked if suspect in Blue Line arson attack should’ve been on streets: “This is an isolated incident, and I don't see this as some sort of trend. And again, the level of accountability that has to happen in this moment, I trust that the federal level will do its part.” 10:01 AM · Nov 20, 2025Reporting by Alice Yin @byaliceyin
https://t.co/Uzn3BO9sd5
#ChicagoScanner #CrimeNews #Chicago
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