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A New England city was transformed by refugees; now, it faces a youth gun violence crisis: 'Fear for my life'
Fox News ^ | 10/24/26 | Paul Steinhauser

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...

**SNIP**

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; History
KEYWORDS: africa; african; africans; asylum; beggedforthis; crisis; fear; guns; illegaltruth; immigranttruth; immigration; lewiston; liberaltruth; maine; migration; muslimtruth; refugees; somali; violence; youplayedyourselves
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To: Uncle Miltie

The problem was the importation of Skinnies.


21 posted on 10/24/2026 6:26:07 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Libloather

There were no guns or youths in Lewiston before the muzzies and Africans moved in? Seems like the are attaching the wrong nouns to the new violence.


22 posted on 10/24/2026 6:50:42 PM PDT by RightOnTheBorder
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To: gundog

It’s a mystery.

DNA can only be evolved. Inbred tribal Somali gene pools are shallower than a rain drop on a blade of grass.


23 posted on 10/24/2026 6:51:01 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: frank ballenger

How does one translate “dindu nuffins” in to Somali?


24 posted on 10/24/2026 7:03:06 PM PDT by Organic Panic ( )
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To: Libloather

Youth gun violence....

As usual, the youths are okay. Their guns are violent. Sneaking out in the middle of the night to do things.


25 posted on 10/24/2026 7:04:53 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Organic Panic

RE: How does one translate “dindu nuffins” in to Somali?

Waxba ma aanan samayn.

(Literally corrected to: I didn’t do anything.))


26 posted on 10/24/2026 7:06:29 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Organic Panic

How does one translate “dindu nuffins” in to Somali?

English
dindu nuffins
New Translations Available

Somali
dindu nuffins


27 posted on 10/24/2026 7:06:43 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ((Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere))
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To: Libloather

“Our biggest problem is the system itself.”


No, I don’t think that’s the biggest problem.


28 posted on 10/24/2026 7:07:11 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: Chickensoup

This meme never gets old.

29 posted on 10/24/2026 7:18:53 PM PDT by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: quantim
"...deport, deport, and more deport."


30 posted on 10/24/2026 7:42:52 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I’m saving that!!! Good one! Thanks.


31 posted on 10/24/2026 7:51:09 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Libloather
Whose idea was it to flood Maine with third world simians? Maine used to be the Whitest of White states. South Americans would be preferable to Somalians.

32 posted on 10/24/2026 8:32:53 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: T.B. Yoits

He about Greenland, lots of room there.


33 posted on 10/24/2026 8:38:32 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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34 posted on 10/24/2026 8:55:44 PM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'WIDTH=500>)
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To: Libloather
“Youth Gun Violence”

What is a “Youth Gun,” a young gun who is on the precipice of going through puberty?

35 posted on 10/24/2026 9:10:52 PM PDT by thegagline (If you hate Christians, Vote Talarico. Sic semper tyrannis! Zeldin for President)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
Whose idea was it to flood Maine with third world simians?

Then Congressman John Baldacci (D-Me) and the Catholic Charities of Maine.

He later became governor.

36 posted on 10/24/2026 10:34:20 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history!)
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To: Libloather

“I think what’s happening here is happening everywhere. It’s happening in Atlanta. I have lived in Miami and Ohio and Kentucky and Minnesota and have seen what is happening in those states also happening here in Lewiston. It’s nothing new.”

There must be some common denominator...what oh what could it be....

Oh yeah! Its YOU!

Lewiston was a nice little town until they decided that they could exist strictly on federal $$’s. That’s what they chased and they got all the problems swapping French Canadians with Somali trash.
Danged shame.

But the locals still vote to keep the garbage. I can only be mildly sympathetic.


37 posted on 10/25/2026 3:48:18 AM PDT by Adder ("A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.” GW.)
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To: Libloather

“gun violence”?? Sheesh...more programming.


38 posted on 10/25/2026 3:52:54 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Libloather

If only there was a pattern to this senseless violence.


39 posted on 10/25/2026 5:02:32 AM PDT by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

This is the exact same problem that Burlington, VT has.
They brought in Somalis around the same time as Maine
Decades later most are still on welfare and other government programs.
However, what they do control is the local drug distribution.
Except, they are not all from the same TRIBE.
So, to keep that control they routinely kill each other.
So often as to make the per capital MURDER Rate in Vermont very high.
This is because Vermont only has 650K people.

It has turned Burlington from what was a beautiful college town on the lake to a SH#T hole city.
All because thirty years ago the UVM students all thought it would be funny to vote for the COMMIE( Bernie).


40 posted on 10/25/2026 6:01:59 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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