More "mostly peaceful" demonstrations.

Chicago's "Magnificent Mile" was subjected to considerable looting last night.

Social justice is an ever-evolving phenomenon, it seems:

The unrest began shortly after midnight and anti-police graffiti was seen in the area of the Magnificent Mile, which is one of Chicago’s most-visited tourist attractions. Hours earlier, dozens of people had faced off with police after officers shot and wounded a person Sunday in the Englewood neighborhood, located about 10 miles (16 kilometers) away.

Brown said after a crowd dissipated following that shooting “we are monitoring social media and we come across a post of a caravan of cars being prompted to go to our downtown and loot.”

Along the Magnificent Mile, people were seen going in and out of stores carrying shopping bags full of merchandise as well as at a bank, the Chicago Tribune reported, and as the crowd grew vehicles dropped off more people in the area. On streets throughout the downtown area, empty cash drawers from stores were strewn about and ATMs were ripped open.

Stores miles from downtown were also ransacked, with parking lots littered with glass and items from inside the stores. Clothes hangers and boxes that once contained television sets and other electronics were seen – evidence that thieves had taken racks of clothes and removed them from the hangers.

“This was obviously very orchestrated,” the Rev. Michael Pfleger, a prominent Roman Catholic priest and activist on the city’s South Side, told WBBM-TV as cameras panned the downtown area.

When you've lost the Rev. Pfleger....but such happens in every revolution. The vanguard eventually gets a tumbrel ride as expectations mutate and take on a grimmer visage. 

The French revolutionaries had Liberte, Egalite, Fraternity.

 America's social justice vanguard has If it's a chain, it's free rein.

Though mistakes will inevitably be made.  

Still, as history shows us, you can't have a revolution without breaking a few....million kulaks.

[Afternoon Update: Chicago authorities literally raised the city's drawbridges to keep the violence from intensifying. 

A Twitter wag: "I actually had "fortified cities making a comeback" on my 2020 bingo card."]