Posted on 02/15/2016 7:00:35 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
CHICAGO (STMW) — Presidents Day weekend shootings have left six people dead and at least 14 others wounded across the city, according to Chicago Police.
The latest homicide happened when two men were discovered shot to death Sunday morning in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood on the South Side.
Officers responded to a call of a person shot in the 5000 block of South Champlain at 10:50 a.m. and discovered two people unresponsive with gunshot wounds inside an apartment, police said. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
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Don't they mean the homicide(s) happened before the two dead men were discovered? Or do they mean the discovery prompted a further homicide?
I wonder how Rahm Emanuel and bast*ard Mullah obama will respond to this.
Good work, Obama.
Welfare recipients and terrorists are brethren, per the bible.
More lives that don’t matter because there’s no political agenda to exploit.
They mean that retards hired by the Chicago Sun Times to write
can’t write.
Probably a Black History Month celebration.
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I’m stuck at an auto shop watching stupid Steve Harvey talk about Chicago gun violence. He’s ramped up his blackness to show how committed he is.
But the guns are doing the killing. The blackness is.
Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson, Al Sharpton and Louis Farrakhan will be right on it.
“The latest homicide happened when two men were discovered shot to death Sunday morning ...”
“Don’t they mean the homicide(s) happened before the two dead men were discovered? Or do they mean the discovery prompted a further homicide?”
Excellent questions. The state of journalism (just the prose itself, setting aside the liberal bent) continues its inexorable decline.
Deafening silence:’ Obama, 2016 Dems mum on recent police deaths
Published February 12, 2016 FoxNews.com
A Fargo police officer fatally shot responding to a routine domestic disturbance call. A 25-year police veteran killed while trying to serve a warrant outside Atlanta. These are just the latest tragedies of cops murdered while performing their sworn duty — “to protect and serve.”
But while President Obama and the Democratic candidates vying to succeed him are putting America’s police departments on trial in the court of public opinion in response to a rash of deadly police shootings, the murder of police officers on America’s streets is being met with a “deafening silence.”
“I cannot recall any time in recent years when six law enforcement professionals have been murdered by gunfire in multiple incidents in a single week,” National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund CEO Craig W. Floyd said in a statement Friday. “Already this year there have been eight officers shot and killed, compared to just one during the same period last year and represents a very troubling trend.”
The relative silence on officer deaths contrasts with the Democratic candidates’ often fiery language on police brutality against African Americans. When it came to the issue of law enforcement at Thursday night’s Democratic debate, the candidates focused almost exclusively on “police reform.” Vermont Sen. Sanders said he’s “sick and tired” of seeing unarmed black people shot by police, likening heavily equipped departments to “occupying armies” - a reference to Ferguson, Mo. and elsewhere. Hillary Clinton hit similar points.
Steve Harvey is the poster boy for Affrrmative Action.
The Myths of Black Lives Matter
By Heather Mac Donald
Feb. 11, 2016 7:08 p.m. ET
A television ad for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign now airing in South Carolina shows the candidate declaring that “too many encounters with law enforcement end tragically.” She later adds: “We have to face up to the hard truth of injustice and systemic racism.”
Her Democratic presidential rival, Bernie Sanders, met with the Rev. Al Sharpton on Wednesday. Mr. Sanders then tweeted that “As President, let me be very clear that no one will fight harder to end racism and reform our broken criminal justice system than I will.” And he appeared on the TV talk show “The View” saying, “It is not acceptable to see unarmed people being shot by police officers.”
Apparently the Black Lives Matter movement has convinced Democrats and progressives that there is an epidemic of racist white police officers killing young black men. Such rhetoric is going to heat up as Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders court minority voters before the Feb. 27 South Carolina primary.
But what if the Black Lives Matter movement is based on fiction? Not just the fictional account of the 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., but the utter misrepresentation of police shootings generally.
To judge from Black Lives Matter protesters and their media and political allies, you would think that killer cops pose the biggest threat to young black men today. But this perception, like almost everything else that many people think they know about fatal police shootings, is wrong.
The Washington Post has been gathering data on fatal police shootings over the past year and a half to correct acknowledged deficiencies in federal tallies. The emerging data should open many eyes.
For starters, fatal police shootings make up a much larger proportion of white and Hispanic homicide deaths than black homicide deaths. According to the Post database, in 2015 officers killed 662 whites and Hispanics, and 258 blacks. (The overwhelming majority of all those police-shooting victims were attacking the officer, often with a gun.) Using the 2014 homicide numbers as an approximation of 2015’s, those 662 white and Hispanic victims of police shootings would make up 12% of all white and Hispanic homicide deaths. That is three times the proportion of black deaths that result from police shootings.
The lower proportion of black deaths due to police shootings can be attributed to the lamentable black-on-black homicide rate. There were 6,095 black homicide deaths in 2014—the most recent year for which such data are available—compared with 5,397 homicide deaths for whites and Hispanics combined. Almost all of those black homicide victims had black killers.
Police officers—of all races—are also disproportionately endangered by black assailants. Over the past decade, according to FBI data, 40% of cop killers have been black. Officers are killed by blacks at a rate 2.5 times higher than the rate at which blacks are killed by police.
Some may find evidence of police bias in the fact that blacks make up 26% of the police-shooting victims, compared with their 13% representation in the national population. But as residents of poor black neighborhoods know too well, violent crimes are disproportionately committed by blacks. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, blacks were charged with 62% of all robberies, 57% of murders and 45% of assaults in the 75 largest U.S. counties in 2009, though they made up roughly 15% of the population there.
Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk of using lethal force.
Read at: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myths-of-black-lives-matter-1455235686
While President Obama and the Democratic candidates vying to succeed him are putting Americas police departments on trial in the court of public opinion,
the murder of police officers on America’s streets is being met with a deafening silence.
Geeeeze, where is the effing outrage on both sides of the political spectrum?
How do we let this happen in 2016 in the US...? Dispicable
#GangLivesMatter
Was this a Chicagoans' blood sacrifice to President Obama on his holy-day?
Chicago lives don’t matter. Do YOU really care?
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