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Mayhem spreads throughout Chicago overnight after meetings to end violence
chicago breaking news.com ^ | November 15, 2009 | Deanese Williams-Harris

Posted on 11/15/2009 9:59:54 AM PST by KeyLargo

Mayhem spreads throughout city overnight after meetings to end violence

November 15, 2009 7:51 AM

After community activists pleaded Saturday for a day without killing, violence erupted throughout the city after the stroke of midnight on Sunday, leaving at least two people dead and several injured.

At about 12:06 a.m., Frederick Evans, 20, of the 6800 block of South Ada Street was found shot to death in an alley in the 500 block of West 58th Street. He was shot in his back and chest.

Witnesses told police Evans was involved in a dice game shortly before midnight, according to Chicago Police News Affairs Officer JoAnn Taylor. Evans was seen being chased by a unknown person who opened fire, Taylor said. He ran to an alley to take cover before collapsing.

A handgun was recovered from the scene, Taylor said.

Minutes later, a 32-year-old man was shot at about 12:13 a.m. on Chicago's West Side in the Lawndale neighborhood. Police said he was shot after he watched a fight in the 3900 block of West Ogden Avenue. He suffered wounds to his leg and thigh, police said.

At about 2 a.m., Howard Hodges, of Park Forest, was shot to death in front of the Time Out Lounge on Chicago's South Side, police said. Hodges, 34, was pronounced dead on the scene.

Another man also was shot in front of the lounge located in the 8300 block of South Vincennes Avenue, but he was taken to St. Bernard Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police said he suffered a wound to his shoulder.

Later, two other people were stabbed in the Englewood neighborhood at about 3:15 a.m. in the 6600 block of South Carpenter Street, and three people were shot in the Brighton Park neighborhood at about 5 a.m. near 47th Street and Homan Avenue, police said.

Several community activists and teens met throughout the city Saturday to discuss ways to end the violence in Chicago neighborhoods.

-- Deanese Williams-Harris


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; cityofobama; communityorganizers; crime; daley; diversity; thugeeinamerica; violence
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I love the headline:

"Mayhem spreads throughout city overnight after meetings to end violence"

Daley is the number one mayor in the U.S. for blaming all crime on guns.


1 posted on 11/15/2009 9:59:56 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo
I should send this article to Jay Leno. LOL!
2 posted on 11/15/2009 10:01:44 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

It isnt the guns it’s the people who abuse them.

I am just guessing mind you, but I bet most of those killed are Number 1 males and their killers are the same.


3 posted on 11/15/2009 10:03:01 AM PST by Venturer
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To: KeyLargo

Number 1 Males ?


4 posted on 11/15/2009 10:03:34 AM PST by Venturer
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To: KeyLargo

Looks like the thugs in Chicago could use an 11:00 PM curfew. If nothing else it might cut down on the homicide department overtime.


5 posted on 11/15/2009 10:04:07 AM PST by 1776 Reborn (Test kids and politicians (bigger idiots) on the Constitution!)
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To: KeyLargo
0bama's fault!
6 posted on 11/15/2009 10:04:34 AM PST by SiVisPacemParaBellum (Peace through superior firepower!)
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To: KeyLargo

“The use of unnecessary force...has been authorized.”


7 posted on 11/15/2009 10:04:34 AM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: KeyLargo

The poster would be more effective if you added Richard M Daley’s picture to it.


8 posted on 11/15/2009 10:06:09 AM PST by devere
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To: KeyLargo

Obama needs to hold a summit on this Chicago problem.


9 posted on 11/15/2009 10:06:57 AM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: KeyLargo

Mayhem spreads throughout city overnight

Mayhem hell - That’s normal behavior for Chicago.


10 posted on 11/15/2009 10:06:59 AM PST by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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Later, two other people were stabbed

Huh... I guess that scumbag Daley will need to outlaw knives, too.

11 posted on 11/15/2009 10:10:39 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Venturer

When will they make “Escape from Chicago”? Snake Pliskin is one of the unsung heroes of our era.


12 posted on 11/15/2009 10:14:15 AM PST by x_plus_one (Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to have George Santayana quoted at them forever)
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To: devere
"The poster would be more effective if you added Richard M Daley’s picture to it."

There. Fixed!

13 posted on 11/15/2009 10:14:49 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Chicago needs a visit from a NOBEL PEACE PRIZE winner


14 posted on 11/15/2009 10:16:28 AM PST by uncbob
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To: KeyLargo

Oh, yeah, that pleading works every time./SAR Hey Chigaco, why don’t you try arming your citizens and see how fast the violence level drops(after a brief period of citizens gunning down criminals)?


15 posted on 11/15/2009 10:18:40 AM PST by calex59
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To: Lancey Howard

I thought Zero had organized this community? Oh yeah,community organizing fixes nothing.


16 posted on 11/15/2009 10:20:17 AM PST by joelt
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To: KeyLargo
After community activists pleaded Saturday for a day without killing, violence erupted throughout the city after the stroke of midnight on Sunday

So the Saturday without violence was a raging success!

I'm imagining all these potential killers sitting around looking at their watches impatiently.

17 posted on 11/15/2009 10:20:31 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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April 28, 2009

Grants from the federal stimulus package will give the Chicago Police Department an extra $20 million to spend on overtime for officers and new equipment in the coming months, according to a police spokesman.

The funds come at an opportune time as crime typically increases with the temperatures, but critics feel the extra cash should be spent on hiring new officers instead of paying an already strained force to work additional hours...

“$9 million dollars? I don’t know how that would alleviate the problem,” said Gerald Frazier, president of the police accountability agency Citizen’s Alert. Referring to recent complaints from aldermen that police are already overwhelmed with calls for service, Frazier added, “We don’t want police officers that are overworked.”

Frazier also had other ideas about how the department should spend the stimulus money including hiring specialized staff.

“It may not be a bad idea to bring some people on board who deal with youth violence to match the crime trends,” Frazier said.

Instead, the Chicago Police Department will use the remaining stimulus funds to upgrade aging equipment. The money will be used to purchase 238 new police vehicles and 543 in-car cameras.
Really, though, who needs more policemen when those community activists are doing such a fine job of stopping the violence?
18 posted on 11/15/2009 10:21:13 AM PST by browardchad ("Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own fact." - Daniel P Moynihan)
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To: KeyLargo
It's the Chicago way .... (chickens coming home to roost?)


19 posted on 11/15/2009 10:22:55 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: KeyLargo

Here’s an idea for the community. Help the police instead of viewing them as an occupying force. Turn in the bad guys, who are destroying your community.


20 posted on 11/15/2009 10:24:32 AM PST by doug from upland (Barack Hussein Obama - making Jimmy Carter look better every day)
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