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Apr 4, 2002 · How Richard J. Daley’s most infamous pronouncement may have overshadowed (and excused) a vastly more ominous episode during the riots following Martin Luther King’s assassination.
- Christopher Chandler
Mayor Richard J. Daley ordered police to shoot arsonists and looters during the 1968 Chicago riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 1968. Daley did not use the phrase "when the looting starts, the shooting starts", but stated to Police Superintendent James B. Conlisk "very emphatically and very definitely that ...
Jun 29, 2020 · Reading President Trump’s tweet, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” reminded me of Mayor Richard J. Daley’s order to “shoot to kill” any arsonists and to “shoot to maim or cripple” any looters in the wake of the urban uprising on the West Side following Dr. King’s assassination.
Aug 14, 2024 · Amid the riots in the wake of King’s murder, Chicago’s longtime mayor, Richard J. Daley, ordered his police to “ shoot to kill arsonists and shoot to maim looters.” And Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated while running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Aug 11, 2024 · The National Guard — mostly troops with no knowledge of policing — didn’t help, nor did Daley’s infamous directives from earlier in the year to “shoot to kill arsonists” and “shoot to maim looters” during riots sparked by the assassination that year of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Oct 31, 2012 · Mayor Richard J. Daley gave police the authority "to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand ... and ... to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our city."
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In what remained of the anti-Daley tradition, strong work included John Pittman’s Mayor Daley in a coffin guarded by a dog that was larger than the mayor, Thomas Kovachevich’s bandage on the wall just happening to fail to stop the last drop of deadly blood, Krystin Grenon’s comparison between the erection of Claes Oldenburg’s Chicago ...
