A Chicago man was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison Tuesday for inciting and participating in looting during the civil unrest that gripped the city in August 2020, including a break-in at a marijuana dispensary.
James Massey, 23, pleaded guilty earlier this year to incitement of a riot, admitting in a plea agreement with prosecutors that he posted multiple videos and messages on Facebook calling for people to travel to downtown Chicago to engage in property damage and looting.Massey was later captured on surveillance video helping to loot and destroy four businesses, including a West Loop cellphone store and the Windy City Cannabis marijuana dispensary on the Near North Side.
“If that’s the way we’re going to react, the law’s gone,” Kennelly said during the videoconference hearing. “It’s mob rule, it’s vigilante justice and nobody wants that.” According to court records, Massey’s call to action began with messages he posted to Facebook on Aug. 9, 2020, telling people to meet him at 63rd Street and South Racine Avenue so they could then travel downtown as a group. Shortly before midnight, Massey posted a photo of himself on Facebook with the caption, “Lets get ready to steal ,” the complaint alleged.
About a half-hour later, Massey was captured on surveillance video walking up to a retail store in the 800 block of North Michigan Avenue brandishing a tire iron, while another person broke the store window, the complaint stated. When Massey was warned that his posts inciting the looting were being circulated on social media, he allegedly replied he didn’t care, according to criminal charges. “ dem...freedom of speech,” he allegedly wrote.
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