Students from a Chicago high school trashed a Walmart Wednesday during a gun control walk-out.
Chicago police are attempting to identify approximately 60 Simeon Career Academy students who trashed a Chicago Walmart, The Red Elephants reported Thursday. Multiple Walmart employees reportedly heard gunshots and saw students throwing smoke bombs.
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Simeon High School students trashed Walmart during the ‘Walkout protest’ – threw food items at shoppers, threw smoke bombs, jumped on cars in and Walmart employees tell us that they heard multiple gunshots in parking lot during rampage
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“These guys jacked up our store pretty good,” one unidentified Walmart employee told The Red Elephants. “They pounced on cars in the lot, vandalized two of the school buses parked there, threw Gatorade bottles at shoppers, Smoke bombs, and we heard gun shots in the parking lot.”
The students knocked down product displays, broke some items, and stole others.
“We’ve worked too hard to try to get these national retailers here in our community. And this doesn’t help us,” 21st Ward Alderman Howard Brookins said. “It makes no sense to tear up the community which you call home.”
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Chicago Students From Simeon High School Trash Walmart during the #NationalStudentWalkout protest.
Walmart employees from the store tell us that they threw smoke bombs and that they also heard several gun shots during the rampage.
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“We are very concerned by these allegations, and we are reviewing the matter,” a Chicago Public Schools spokesman told Fox32.
Students involved in the incident will likely receive misdemeanor charges in addition to discipline at school, a Chicago police spokesman said to Fox32.
The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to Simeon Career Academy for further comment but received none in time for press.
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