Posted on 05/31/2022 4:55:31 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Ten of those 52 people who were shot died, authorities said. More than a quarter were wounded in a single police district on the West Side. Memorial Day weekend in Chicago has again lived up to its violent expectations.
By Tuesday morning, 52 people had been shot in the city over the holiday weekend, as the Chicago Police Department canceled officers’ days off in anticipation of the historically violent unofficial start of summer.
About half of the shooting victims were wounded on the West Side, while the South Side saw about 14 victims. The downtown area, which has seen several high-profile attacks in May, had four shooting victims.
By Monday morning, shootings had outpaced last year’s Memorial Day weekend, when 37 people were shot, three of them fatally.
Ten of this weekend’s shooting victims had died by Tuesday morning, authorities said. More than a quarter of victims were wounded in a single West Side police district —the 11th Harrison District —which had two mass shootings on Sunday:
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
If not for excellent trauma care in the few remaining hospital emergency rooms in Chicago, the deaths from gun shot wounds would be much higher.
The team’s work on Aug. 5 was predicated on decades of experience. In 2017 alone, the 50 clinicians in Stroger’s trauma center treated more than 1,100 gunshot wound patients — roughly one-third of the people shot in Chicago that year — a stat that reveals why Stroger’s trauma center is one of the busiest in the nation.
However, the packed Chicago area ER’s today cause the thousands of seriously injured, or having serious medical issues to have to wait, also because of so many illegals and others without insurance filling up the Emergency rooms.
Also, As much as 12 hour or more waits to actually see the few remaining ER doctors left in hospitals is not uncommon.
And the media will talk about this when? I believe just after the story of BIGFOOT riding an UNICORN!! 🤓
They don’t say anything about the victims. Age and gender and a general location. It’s sad that people don’t rate a better description of their final moments on this earth. A 15 year old boy was shot near some shore. A 30 year old man was shot in the head in a front yard. That’s it. No name, no picture, no words about the people whatsoever. In trying not to describe them they dishonor them as a mere numerical happenstance.
Because the Democrat media is racist, and only uses the dead bodies of victims for political purposes.
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