Posted on 10/24/2026 5:04:02 PM PDT by Libloather
LEWISTON, Maine — A New England city transformed by an influx of refugees and immigrants is now grappling with a youth gun violence crisis after police reported 35 gun-related incidents this year, 22 involving juveniles.
"I don’t feel safe. I fear for my life," Mohamed Muhumed, a Lewiston teenager, told Fox News Digital. "I saw someone get punched in the middle of the sidewalk over there. It’s crazy."
The city, Maine's second most populous and home to a large population of refugees from Somali and other African nations, is experiencing a serious youth gun violence problem.
Lewiston Police Chief Carly Conley called gun violence "one of the most serious public safety challenges" facing the city.
Jon Fetherston, a reporter for the conservative-leaning The Maine Wire who has reported extensively on the issue, told Fox News Digital that "the gun violence in Lewiston is very concerning. The majority ... has been committed by teenagers. ... Multiple times teenagers have been arrested and immediately released by the courts back out on the streets.
"The court systems are being tapped. The DA is frustrated that the courts aren't putting these kids away in jail. ... Residents are scared. Residents are very, very frustrated, and you've got kids shooting kids...
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Republican Rick LaChapelle, a former city council president who is now running for mayor, told Fox News Digital, "Our biggest problem is the system itself. The police department is doing an excellent job catching these people. We have one young man that's been arrested five times, I believe, for the same thing. He gets arrested, gets brought down to the youth center … gets released.
"It's been a one-party rule forever that has instilled the rules that there's no accountability," LaChapelle argued. "We need to change the rules of the system."
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Ahhh,...a clue emerges.
His lawyer should sue for the whiplash effects of whizzing through the rapidly revolving doors. Try for $25 Million and settle out of court for maybe $15 Million.
I heard a cop on TV say he resents having to have his partner and himself still working on filling in all the computer file's required lines about the arrest as they can see the perp smiling at them as he leaves.
“Refugees”
“We need to change the rules of the system.”
Yes, deport, deport, and more deport.
They have an African problem. 25% of the population.
The ptb won’t take the toll off the highway that would bring working whites into the area.
I grew up in a Portland (Maine) suburb. I remember, around 1960, a documentary on local TV about Lewiston titled something like “The Poor of Lewiston.” Left me (around 11 years old at the time) with the impression I should never bother going to Lewiston. A bit later the kids I hung around with referred to Lewiston as Sewerston.
Send them to Martha’s Vineyard.
Ah, well. Your neighbors voted for it.
You get what you vote for...good and hard.
Somali Mohammed Mohammed
Not a “gun violence” problem.
A “muslim violence” problem.
No one even needed a crystal ball to predict this.
A refugee like Ilhan Limu’s Somalian warlord father?
Oh, BEW HEW.
Wasn’t this the state that welcomed these turd worlders?
Why, yes ... yes it is ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5X0cWJvfgA
Stephen King is smiling. Behind his gated house and private security.
Obvious that somebody allowed them in so I guess maybe that person or persons should be deported with the troublemakers.
Don’t care.
Their problem is that they have Somalis.
They are among the worst of the worst.
When that guy shot up the bowling alley in Lewiston a few years ago, the governor recommended a charity where people from all over the country could send money to assist with those who lost somebody.
Millions were donated. A chunk about $2 large went to a Somalian “charity.”. How much of that went to help the community? Not much.
Lewiston was always a tough factory town. The factories left. It got tougher.
That’s $2 Million…not $2.
Somalis are most of their Africans but they have others who aren’t picnics either.
Somalis are hated in Africa.
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