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Mother, 4-year-old boy among 17 shot over 17 hours
Chicago Tribune ^ | 7/29/17 | Gregory Pratt, Roemary Sobol, Elvia Malagon

Posted on 07/29/2017 9:59:26 AM PDT by Openurmind

At least 17 people were shot, over 17 hours from Friday to Saturday including a 4 yr. old boy. The boy's mother was also shot in the head and died later. In the North Austin neighborhood were they were "Ambushed" by Gunmen.

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To: Openurmind

In the North Austin neighborhood were they were “Ambushed” by Gunmen.


The Tribune must have an interesting style manual where ‘ambushed’ and ‘gunmen’ are always capitalized. Interesting spelling of ‘where’ also. Whatever happened to MSM’s ‘layers of editors’?


21 posted on 07/29/2017 10:35:44 AM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Openurmind

That’s bad. Of all the murders and assaults there, do you know what the capture and conviction rare is?


22 posted on 07/29/2017 10:43:19 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Uncle Sam 911

It was happening all over the City, not just this neighborhood or district. Most of the night was chases to catch all these offenders. They didn’t stand there and wait for the Police to arrest them. Little hard to stop and take lunch or break during a chase. :)

And the A&B calls are starting already this morning.

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/763/web


23 posted on 07/29/2017 10:44:18 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

Wow.


24 posted on 07/29/2017 10:45:08 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: sparklite2

That was my fault... Their script prevents copy and paste so I had to write this while I was talking on the phone. My bad grammar here.

I should know better than to type while on the phone... :)


25 posted on 07/29/2017 10:48:24 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

The ‘good’ news is that only 3 dead.

The ‘real good’ news is they will have another 55 or so hours to get a better percentage.

AND if they fail this weekend, there is always next weekend with the promise of a long weekend in 4 or so weeks.

Always a silver lining.

Of course NOTHING gets done when the shooters - if apprehended - are always the victims...

Also, at least with the dead you bury them and are ‘done with it’.

For the wounded, WE all get to pay for that and if wounded really bad (Although in the days of SSI a bleeding hangnail can get someone a Govt check for the rest of their life...)

OR keep pumping them kids out. When they get to be school age YOU & the SCHOOL SYSTEM can get monies for EVERY slow learner & rambunctious kid that comes along.

And how better to get that check than to ‘ignore’ your kid till he gets to 1st grade then ‘they’ can declare him an ‘idiot’ and the checks may get bigger.

LBJ and the TRUE fruits of his ‘Great Society’.


26 posted on 07/29/2017 10:49:09 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""There is more to life than being a passenger. Amelia Earhart")
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To: Rusty0604

Later this afternoon it will really start to pick up, it’s Saturday.

I live in a very rural area and listen once in awhile to get a refresher dose of reality. Too easy to forget how messed up it really is.


27 posted on 07/29/2017 11:00:11 AM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

It is my prayer that President Trump will impose martial law in parts of Chicago very soon to stop the killing of the innocent. This has gone on too long under the Democrats who do nothing to stop the gangs. These gangs are terrorist organizations and should be treated as such.


28 posted on 07/29/2017 11:54:40 AM PDT by raiderboy
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To: raiderboy

It really is a war zone...


29 posted on 07/29/2017 12:08:13 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind
were they were

Were did the tribs proofreader go? Proffesionull Gernalizm at it's finest.

30 posted on 07/29/2017 12:09:19 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

The vast majority of these shootings are black on black. Seems white neighborhood are relatively safe.


31 posted on 07/29/2017 12:15:17 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: rawcatslyentist

That was me, My bad grammar while trying to multitask and talk on the phone. The Tribune site has a script that does not allow copy and paste so there was no way to get an excerpt. I had to write a short summary to be courteous for readers here. But then this site would not let me post from the Tribune without checking the “excerpt” box.

So it’s my fault... :)


32 posted on 07/29/2017 12:18:04 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

“I was monitoring most of this last night on a scanner feed from the Chicago Police Dispatch”

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I’m not too clever———how do you do that?

.


33 posted on 07/29/2017 12:23:04 PM PDT by Mears
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To: raiderboy
These gangs are terrorist organizations and should be treated as such.

They vote D so they get a pass

34 posted on 07/29/2017 12:34:33 PM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: Mears

Click on this link and turn up your PC speakers, and you will be on the live feed for Chicago Dispatch. If the link is dead copy and paste into a second tab in your browser. :)

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/763/web

The main site where you can search all feeds by county and city across the country including your local if available is:

broadcastify.com

Things are picking up now in Chicago.


35 posted on 07/29/2017 12:35:36 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Openurmind

Thank you so much———should be fun to try it out on a Saturday night.

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36 posted on 07/29/2017 12:50:29 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Openurmind

Didn’t know Chicago had an Austin area. Texas’ Austin is the uber armpit of liberalism here so it fits.


37 posted on 07/29/2017 12:58:35 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Openurmind

Didn’t know Chicago had an Austin area. Texas’ Austin is the uber armpit of liberalism here so it fits.


38 posted on 07/29/2017 12:58:43 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Mears

My privilege, I pull it up on a second tab and listen while I am reading and participating here at FR. :)


39 posted on 07/29/2017 1:02:12 PM PDT by Openurmind
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To: Menehune56

It’s a shame their hometown hero hasn’t seen fit to move back.


40 posted on 07/29/2017 1:03:20 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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