Posted on 01/28/2016 12:24:22 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday blamed gang-bangers and gun-runners for the rare January bloodbath on Chicago streets and denied that police officers are being less aggressive in the continuing fallout from the Laquan McDonald shooting video.
"I believe that the increase in the shootings, the increase in the gun violence -- the onus of that is on the gangs and the illegal flow of guns into the hands of criminals. I also believe our police are doing their job," Emanuel said.
"They are doing a dangerous job. They are sensitive while they're doing it to the fact of what's going on around the city. They are only human. But it doesn't take away from the commitment they have to the city and the safety."
Last fall, Emanuel inadvertently made negative headlines when he contended during a closed-door meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch and 20 big-city mayors and police chiefs that police officers across the nation are becoming "fetal" because they're afraid their videotaped encounters with the public will end up on YouTube.
Now, the same term can be used to describe the defensive crouch that many Chicago Police officers have adopted in the wake of the video of white police officer Jason Van Dyke emptying 16 rounds into the body of black teenager Laquan McDonald.
January shootings and homicides are way up, an anomaly during a cold weather month. And police stops, gun confiscation and other indicators of police activity are way down.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Our own little no-go area. Well, Obama and Rahm always did want to be more European!
Sharia Law in Chi-town!!
what’s “rare” about it?
When they don’t burn the corpses, ‘rare’ meat.
I guess, to this writer, 70 people do not constitute a bloodbath:
"One Dead, Six Shot in Separate Chicago Shootings
"Breitbart.com | January 17, 2015 | Warner Todd Huston
"As subzero temperatures hit Chicago, the violence continues. Between Friday afternoon and Saturday evening one was killed and six others were shot in the Windy City. Thus far this year, in the 17 short days of the first month of 2015, 70 have been shot. Thirteen of those were fatalities."
Do twenty in your squad car and get out!
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