Calling Chicago’s most violent weekend so far this year “despicable,” police Superintendent Eddie Johnson stuck to the department’s usual explanation for what went wrong, blaming the flow of illegal guns and a too-lenient criminal justice system.
“Unfortunately, over the past 72 hours in Chicago, we saw a despicable level of violence,” Johnson said at a news conference Monday at police headquarters. “Weekends like this remind us all of the challenges that we face and that they are complex and profound.”
According to the department, at least 52 people were shot, eight fatally, from 6 p.m. Friday until midnight Monday. At least one other person was fatally stabbed, bringing the homicide toll to nine.
More than half the victims — 31 to be specific — were wounded during a 12-hour burst of gunfire from Friday evening to Saturday morning in areas of the South and West sides that have long struggled with crime, poverty and hopelessness. Four of them died.
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No need dwelling on it.Chicago is beyond fixing and we all should accept that by now.A weekly statistic will do nicely without a narrative of what specifically happened.Just give us the numbers and let us decide for ourselves.
ReplyDeleteThe press releases should include the races of the victims just to tell the entire truth:
ReplyDeleteIn Chicago 51 Blacks And 1 White Shot, 8 Blacks Die
Just like the "crisis" at the border; until the leftists admit to the statistics this will continue. Whom are they afraid of offending? Need to call Muslim radicals terrorists, need to call people invading the country illegals, need to call the folks in Chicago wreaking havoc and raising he!! thugs and criminals...they are not victims.
ReplyDeleteAnd it was all done by who? Yeah, we know who did this. Black lives matter, huh fools?
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