Posted on 08/17/2020 2:53:30 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Forty-nine people were shot over the course of 72 hours in NYC between Thursday and Saturday, compared to eight shooting victims over the same time period last year, according to preliminary NYPD statistics sent to Gothamist Sunday morning.
Eight people were murdered—at least six by gun violence—compared to three homicides last year over those three days.
Those numbers do not yet reflect shootings on Sunday.
But about 2 a.m. Sunday, a 47-year-old was fatally shot in the head near Parkside and Ocean Avenues in Brooklyn at the entrance of Prospect Park.
The man was the ninth person in NYC murdered since Thursday.
Those 49 shooting victims were shot in 38 separate incidents between August 13th and 15th, the police department said.
The number of shootings rose by nearly five times—from eight to 38—compared to the same dates last year...
(Excerpt) Read more at gothamist.com ...
So sad. I'm sure it will be years before I feel safe enough to back to visit people, and I'm not sure they will make it until I can get back. We are all getting older.
They mis-spelled “gang violence” in the headline.
No wonder folks are leaving NYC!
More BLM signs painted on the streets are needed.
Ya but the skank mayor in Seattle says its the summer of love.
I remember back in the days when I visited NYC there were ironic punk t shirts with menacing letters and a skyline saying Fear City for sale. Not sure if they are still around. Wouldn’t be ironic anymore.
Who do they think they are, Chicago?
Now the robbers are so desperate, they are shooting each other.
Nothing says love more than a drive-by shooting.
The BeetleJuice demon governor of Shitcago is NOT impressed.
It will make every effort to make Shitcago’s numbers higher next weekend.
Being outdone by a white male in NYC just doesn’t sit well with BeetleJuice. /s
Thankfully they defunded the police, so that should stop the violence, right. I was told by BLM that the police caused the violence.
Also Leftist mayors: Hospitals getting overwhelmed by leftist violence is just democracy in action and must be supported.
"Now, the genesis of the crime you can have a great debate about, but the Trump economy, Trump not providing COVID relief, the George Floyd murder, Trump’s response to the George Floyd murder, race relations stress, Trump, there are good people on both sides, Ku Klux Klan,” Cuomo said of Trump's guilt in the matter. “So, I think Trump has some liability for the increase in the crime."Shameless sfaccimm!
They just need more social workers.
I thought there were Cameras everywhere in New York, can’t they stream it to youtube so we can place bets??
Guns are not violent. People are violent.
De Blasio and his freak wife will be around for another 16 months, so there’s plenty of chaos left in the pipeline.
It just seems that the “right” 49 people aren’t being shot.
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