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59 shot, eight dead in Chicago since Friday
ABC 7 (WLS) ^ | August 5,2018 | Diane Pathieu and Michelle Gallardo

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; chicago; granitecity; illinois; neilsteinberg; nra; secondamendment
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To: BenLurkin
Celebration weekend.

It be Bark's BD.

41 posted on 08/05/2018 4:33:57 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Hojczyk

Just another carefree weekend in the Windy City..and no protests, gee, I wonder why..no cops involved?


42 posted on 08/05/2018 4:48:04 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Hojczyk

This is where the U.N. starts gun confiscation. Good luck with that.


43 posted on 08/05/2018 4:48:25 PM PDT by DownInFlames (Gals)
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To: Hojczyk

But that’s against the law!


44 posted on 08/05/2018 4:52:29 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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To: Hojczyk

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.”

Ever notice that Dems only have two solutions to any problem?

1. Throw Money at it
2. Ban it


45 posted on 08/05/2018 4:54:38 PM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: Hojczyk

Happy Barack Obama Day!!


46 posted on 08/05/2018 4:57:07 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Tonytitan

They train them in New Orleans.


47 posted on 08/05/2018 4:59:41 PM PDT by BBell
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To: Hojczyk

I hate to say it but with that much participation could participation award be warranted?/////////////////


48 posted on 08/05/2018 5:00:34 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: Hojczyk

What does it tell you that the same that runs the cities where this happens is the same party that is pushing this “Russia, Russia, Russia” crap?


49 posted on 08/05/2018 5:07:50 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: Hojczyk

Shhhhhhhhhhh don’t tell kamala, cockeyed cory or Maxine waters


50 posted on 08/05/2018 5:09:26 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Hojczyk
Trying again.

What does it tell you that the same party that runs the cities where this happens is the same party that is pushing this “Russia, Russia, Russia” crap?

51 posted on 08/05/2018 5:17:33 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: frank ballenger

I thought I was !

Obama’s birthday yesterday. I misunderestimated Yugely!


52 posted on 08/05/2018 5:25:01 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Splodeyhead is the only cure for MAGAphobia)
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To: Hojczyk

Silence from the media since 1) evil black rifles weren’t used, and 2) most of the victims and shooters were black, and 3) most of the shootings were gang related.


53 posted on 08/05/2018 5:26:19 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The ONLY purpose for gun control is so that one group can force its will on a less powerful group.)
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To: Hojczyk
"We just have too many guns on the streets of Chicago."

Bullshit! There are too many criminals on the streets.

54 posted on 08/05/2018 5:26:26 PM PDT by umgud
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To: SkyDancer

“Oh, and also a law that says you can’t go around shooting people.”

59 shot, 8 dead. Good thing the idiots turn their guns sideways to shoot....


55 posted on 08/05/2018 5:34:23 PM PDT by snoringbear (W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: Hojczyk

Chicongo is a very violent city.


56 posted on 08/05/2018 5:40:41 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: Hojczyk

“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.”

This is nothing a little midnight basketball won’t take care of, Superintendent.


57 posted on 08/05/2018 5:50:21 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: Hojczyk

F Rahm Emanuel. What has this ars hole done for President Trump fight for rebuilding America. Nothing.


58 posted on 08/05/2018 5:50:35 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: Hojczyk

Who cares as long as they are blacks killed by blacks. See, it den be don mattering or nutin.


59 posted on 08/05/2018 6:07:04 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: Hojczyk

These murders are going to continue until the politicians and their pals in law enforcement figure out that it isn’t the NRA and law abiding gun owners who are doing all the shooting.


60 posted on 08/05/2018 6:08:48 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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