Posted on 06/18/2023 10:05:48 AM PDT by grundle
At least 20 people were injured, one fatally, when gunfire erupted early Sunday at a Juneteenth celebration in suburban Chicago, authorities said.
The shooting unfolded about 12:30 a.m. in the parking lot of a strip mall in Willowbrook, about 23 miles west of Chicago, according to the DuPage County Sheriff's Office.
The gunfire erupted during a large gathering to commemorate Juneteenth, Battalion Chief Joe Ostrander with the Tri-State Fire Protection District told ABC Chicago station WLS-TV.
Victims were taken to multiple area hospital with gunshot wounds, according to the sheriff's office. One person was pronounced dead and at least two were in critical condition, Deputy Chief Eric Swanson of the DuPage County Sheriff's Office said at a news conference.
No arrests have been announced.
A motive for the shooting is under investigation.
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I go the other way, we should make every weekend a black holiday, exploit it, put up cameras, have Live Betting and put it on PPV. Shouldn’t we be allowed to profit and enjoy the festivities of black yutes killing each other???
This is my shocked face.
Who are we to criticize the celebratory traditions of groups in the spectrum the rainbow of diversity that makes this country great.
And I thought they were celebrating (Lack of) Father’s - Day!!
HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.
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