Posted on 08/05/2018 3:29:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Dozens of people were wounded in shootings across Chicago since Friday, police said.
One paramedic described the evening as "a war zone."
Since midnight, police said 42 people have been shot, five fatally. Since Friday at 5 p.m., 59 people have been shot, eight fatally, in shootings in Chicago.
34 of the shootings and five deaths occurred between 10 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday, according to police. During one two-and-a-half hour-hour period, 25 people were shot in five multi-injury shootings.
"We know that some of these incidents were targeted and are related to gang conflicts in those areas," said Chicago Police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller at a press conference Sunday afternoon.
This comes just days after Superintendent Eddie Johnson visited ABC7 and talked about decreasing crime numbers and overall violence in Chicago.
"I think some of our more challenging, communities, it's just imperative that police and the community work together to reduce this gun violence," Superintendent Johnson said. "We just have too many guns on the streets of Chicago."
After an event announcing an expansion of the Riverwalk, Mayor Rahm Emanuel voiced the need to create more jobs, not just in the central business district, but on the South and West Sides as well.
"Wednesday we announced a number of businesses that are going to be part of the neighborhood opportunity fund that create the most important part of our neighborhood economy," Emanuel said. "We together have to work as a city....we have a challenge and it requires all of us. Not just our police officers."
CPD representatives said Sunday that they plan to focus their resources for the evening on neighborhoods where retaliation seems likely.
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Must be all those Confederate monuments and flags dotting Chicago causing the carnage.
And once again, since it is black on black murders, CNN does not notice.
JoMa
Ya they need more jobs cause they would have so much less time to shoot people.
59 shot recently....
Front page online news:
Trump rhetoric could lead to his supporters becoming violent any day now. Media journalists in fear for their lives against Trump voters.
When is someone going to grab the guns from those whites?
Martial. As in military.
Hopefully they followed the mayor’s advice and took it in the alley.
the weekend pool....
—A Friend
I guess their little protest march through the white part of town didn’t make whitey stop blacks from shooting each other
Necessary collateral damage to drive an agenda. Rat’s er Rahm’s disregard for life, justice and American freedom. No law and order. No justice. Enemies/criminals within on many levels.
"We just have too many guns on the streets of Chicago."
Clearly they need to rewrite the law prohibiting guns in Chicago. Maybe adding “This time we really mean it, bitch.”
We need to say “racist cnn” like we now can legally say “racist NYT”
The L.A. July 22nd Trader Joe hostage taker earlier had shot his grandmother 7 times. She was alive in the hospital! Either he’s a bad shot or she’s actually Robocop. No hard feelings, grandma. Just a mood I was in.
Thanks for the tip and the link.
Democcrats sure do know haw to keep a town toddling!
I'm sorry to say unless Chicago kicks it up a notch, they risk losing the title. Only 8 on a summer weekend? Puhleeze! That's pathetic. The year is more than half over, and it its way past time to get serious about winning.
This is why they need illegals..
The weekend isn’t over. Suspect the killed number will go up by another 3-4 tonight.
I heard that in newspapers back around 1990. They made much of military training in the more violent cities while calling for more “gun control”.
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