Posted on 11/02/2022 1:02:46 PM PDT by PBRCat
Officers assigned to Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s security detail were involved in an exchange of gunfire early Tuesday morning, intervening during an alleged robbery in progress in Logan Square.
In a preliminary statement, Chicago Police Department officials said it doesn't appear anyone was struck by gunfire during the shooting, which occurred around 7 a.m. Tuesday in the 1800 block of North Monticello Avenue.
According to the department’s statement, on-duty officers assigned to the detached services unit observed a robbery in progress and encountered multiple suspects, at least one of whom was armed.
At that point, “an exchange of gunfire ensued,” police said, and the suspects fled the scene.
CPD spokesperson Thomas Ahern later confirmed to WTTW News in an email that the officers involved in the shooting were members of Lightfoot’s security detail.
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It's not as if they are going to ranges for practice like law abiding safety conscious gun owners.
In actuality we should wish that we were still at “Wild West” crime levels.
In fact they were not all that “Wild”, crime was relatively low.
Sensationalist muck-rakers exaggerations are not new.
If you take your history lessons from Hollwierd the West would still be barren as no town could have prospered.
Look at 1800’s Virginia City NV facts.
Very few murders or gun fights.
LOTS of fist-fights and broken bones but few fatalities.
A murdered prostitute is the most memorable crime of the era.
A love triangle resulted in all three being run out of town when the men engaged in a shoot-out. One of them had been the Sheriff.
Chicago is now orders of magnitude beyond any “Wild West” town.
In the Wild West days my town was “Pizen Switch”, it shows up occasionally in Western novels.
The violence portrayed is all fictional.
And the “Pizen” is only a reference to the poor quality of the whiskey.
Yeah, that was my thought. Beetlejuice needed some extra bucket loads of cosmetics from an upscale shop and decided to grab it — shop owner shot at her and her security detail killed him/her.
“No news at 11”.
It would be better security if Lightfoot were kept in the Lincoln Park Zoo. It is never a target of criminals, well gated community and she can be with her own kind... with stupid animals and have that at-home jungle feeling without the risk and fear of being attacked on the streets of Chicago by wild animals.
While allowing Antifa and BLM thugs to burn the city and loot the stores in 2020, to further the Democrat campaign for retaking the presidency, Lightfoot had her own Chicago home surrounded and reinforced like an armed garrison.
“Chicago Police Department officials said it doesn’t appear anyone was struck by gunfire during the shooting,...”
Looks like everybody missed everybody.
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