It was movie night in Demarco Kennedy's Far South Side apartment.
The 32-year-old railroad worker's wife and three children waited for him in the living room, with plans to watch the animated film "Rio 2." He sat at his dining room table, paying bills.
Then, gunshots.
Kennedy's kids, coached in the past by their wary parents, dropped to the floor.
As the children attempted to crawl into a hallway, Kennedy's wife saw him fall over. The left side of his face was streaked with blood from a bullet wound.
"He was grabbing my hand real hard. He was trying to say something and he couldn't," Nicole Cooper said Tuesday, recounting the August evening when her husband was slain. "And when he released my hand, that's when he passed."
With that random bullet through the family's window, Kennedy became another homicide victim in Chicago, one of more than 750 in 2016.
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No answers? How about using the RICO Act and declaring all the gangs in Chicago to be the organized criminal enterprises that they are? Then, 30 days of martial law (ie no more killings for 30 days) and use the National Guard to round up all the gang members and use a house-to-house search to confiscate the cocaine, heroin, ILLEGAL guns (and aliens). No bail, swift trials, deportation when applicable.
ReplyDeleteWe used RICO against the mafia and it worked (no problem - I'm part Italian). But use it against black people or hispanics? Never. The democrats prefer political correctness over saving lives and stopping crime.
Few answers? Probably the Russians did it, or maybe it's George Bush's fault. That works every time!
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ReplyDeleteIf they did that, who would sell the drugs brought into the Country by the CIA?
No answers? To the devesation soley the results of democrats stangle hold and the failure of liberal progressive ideals
ReplyDeleteThin the herd America needs it.
ReplyDeleteI have been hearing that officers in major cities are "standing down" because they are not protected by the laws they are attempting to uphold and they know they are now walking targets. Can you blame them?
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