Posted on 04/08/2020 5:54:25 PM PDT by simpson96
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Interim Police Supt. Charlie Beck on Wednesday decried the warm weather outbreak of violence straining police resources and filling hospital space desperately needed for patients with the coronavirus.
This violence has to stop. There are two pandemics that face Chicago and only one of them is virus-induced, Beck said.
In the 24-hour period starting at midnight Monday, seven people were shot to death and 21 more were wounded, including a 5-year old girl. Another man was killed after being pushed onto CTA Red Line tracks at Jackson and run over by a train.
The death toll was even worse between 7 p.m. Sunday and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday: 13 homicides, 25 non-fatal shooting victims. Of those 13 homicides, 11 were in shootings.
Lightfoot said that level of violence is never acceptable. Never, ever. Shooting into crowds without any regard for the consequences is the most heinous form of cowardice.
But the unrelenting gun violence that has plagued Chicago for decades is even more intolerable now when police manpower and hospital beds and resources are being stretched to the breaking point by the coronavirus.
In the middle of this worldwide pandemic, our precious health resources need to be treating COVID-19 patients and those needing acute care. Every day we are measuring our precious health care resources. The number of beds we have in hospitals, ICU capacity. To be blunt, if our ICUs are filled with gunshot victims, our ability to respond to this crisis will necessarily be compromised, she said.
Just this week, we talked about the disproportionate burden that black Chicago is facing with infections and death related to COVID-19. These same communities continue to be plagued by gun violence. Im here to say enough, enough, enough.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
Having raised the bar on crime, surprise surprise, there is now more crime. Embrace the suck bitch.
I continued east by the way of Omaha and Council Bluffs, which were full of disease. There were women everywhere. The state of Illinois and Missouri were in a tumult, men killing one another, women joining the fighting, family against family in the most horrid manner.
1877 vision
“What does she plan to do against the black gang violence?”
Oops! You misspelled “gun violence”. Maybe an autocorrect problem?
I noticed that as well. Chicago has had weekends with 50+ shootings and not a peep from the mayor until the WuFlu.
The website that tabulates all the Chicago stuff shows shootings up but kills down compared to a year ago.
Somebody said the gun ranges are closed...
Counted as COVID-19 deaths?
Maybe a Freudian slip ??
Women and minorities suffer the most.....
Oh, but wait! Never mind.
Maybe she will just give them room to destroy, like another big city Donk mayor. Let Chicago burn, no Federal funds to rebuild.
For some reason black on violence just continues. There are a few candle light services but nothing changes.
Hey Groot the reason that the black community is disproportionately affected by the China Flu is because the are disproportionately stupid.
This violence has to stop.
Oooh, shes getting serious now. What a bad joke.
Someone woke the freshly hair cut, I got booze you don’t mayor clubfoot from slumber, watch out!
I see that Chicago is back to “normal”, killing more people than the coronavirus. /sarc but close to the truth.
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