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Chicago weekend shooting toll: 8 dead, 45 wounded
Chicago Tribune ^ | September 21, 2015 | Chicago Tribune staffContact Reporter

Posted on 09/21/2015 8:56:47 AM PDT by TexasCajun

Eight people were killed and at least 45 people were wounded in shootings between Friday evening and early Monday, making it one of the most violent weekends in Chicago this year.

The shootings bring the year's total to at least 2,213, according to an analysis of a Chicago Tribune database. That's an increase of more than 350 over last year and more than 500 over 2013, according to Tribune data.

There were at least 365 homicide victims in Chicago through Monday morning this year, 53 more than last year and 38 more than 2013, according to a Tribune database on homicides.

The most violent stretch this weekend occurred late Saturday morning into Sunday when five people were killed and 18 were wounded, including a 14-year-old boy who was shot to death Saturday evening in the North Kenwood neighborhood on the South Side.

At least 16 people were shot Friday night into early Saturday, and 14 people were shot late Sunday morning into early Monday morning.

The 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy were on the street in the 4400 block of South Greenwood Avenue in the North Kenwood neighborhood when a car drove by and someone opened fire around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, according to police.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blackviolencematters; chicago; dead
No Protest.

No Riots

No Looting

No BlackLivesMatter ???

...just another normal weekend in Chi-Town.

1 posted on 09/21/2015 8:56:47 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun

Oh, yes sir!

“They” matter alright...


2 posted on 09/21/2015 8:57:35 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (BREAKING: Boy Scouts of America Changes Corporate Identity to "Scouting for Boys in America")
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To: TexasCajun

Obie left Chicago years to soon

he surely could Community Organize all this mess out of existence couldnt he??


3 posted on 09/21/2015 8:58:28 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: TexasCajun

This mayhem was undoubtedly caused by two retired mechanics in Texas who sold each other some Civil War muskets using the gun show ‘loophole’ that precludes background checks i.e. permission from the government to exercise a right.


4 posted on 09/21/2015 8:59:41 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: TexasCajun

The shootings bring the year’s total to at least 2,213


5 posted on 09/21/2015 9:02:24 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: TexasCajun

Given the latest taxing bondoggle there, surprised they havent added a new “dying in chicago” tax.


6 posted on 09/21/2015 9:07:38 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Will Obama make a Trayvon “look like me” statement about the Chicago violence this last weekend?


7 posted on 09/21/2015 9:13:31 AM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: TexasCajun
8 dead, 45 wounded,

45 wounded........They need more range time in Chicago.

8 posted on 09/21/2015 9:14:24 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Sasparilla

NO.

But Obama will invite a muslim kid to the white house.


9 posted on 09/21/2015 9:15:54 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: TexasCajun
These numbers are incomprehensible.

It's not just Chicago. Cleveland, which normally has less than 100 homicides a year, has had a slew of them on the east side recently, including three young children killed in crossfire or drive by random shootings. It's in neighborhoods with an attitude that they don't want the police policing them, then they complain the police haven't stopped the slaughter.

I wonder how many blacks have been slaughtered by other blacks because of "Black Lives Matter".

Pray our fellow US citizens in fragile neighborhoods wake up.

10 posted on 09/21/2015 9:16:59 AM PDT by grania
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To: TexasCajun

A bunch of young, black males shoot and kill each other for stupid reasons. The conclusion of the liberal media: let’s take the guns away from the people who aren’t shooting and killing each other.


11 posted on 09/21/2015 9:20:27 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: TexasCajun

Deez po’leece our killin’ our kidz


12 posted on 09/21/2015 9:23:48 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bush [the 90s rock band] for POTUS 2016!!!)
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To: grania
"It's in neighborhoods with an attitude that they don't want the police policing them, then they complain the police haven't stopped the slaughter."

I've read a number of stories like that in recent years. Black "leaders" cry racism when the police don't prevent shootings and killings. And then when the police show up to arrest thugs and troublemakers, they are many times physically and verbally assaulted by black crowds who scream (guess what) RACISM!!!

Complicit in the whole thing is the lib media who keep silent about the matter....unless of course when they're blaming the police (as usual) for the violence.

13 posted on 09/21/2015 9:25:48 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Just wait until all the “Syrian refugees”get here.Then you’ll see a body count.


14 posted on 09/21/2015 9:36:55 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: TexasCajun

As long as there’s no Whitey to blame, those Black lives don’t matter.


15 posted on 09/21/2015 10:03:07 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: TexasCajun

Early in the spring I emailed Mayor Rhambo to deputize the Moms United for Gun Sense (conveniently located a short drive away here in Indiana), team them with the BATF, and send them into the ‘hood to clean out all the illegal guns.

So far no reply.


16 posted on 09/21/2015 10:06:39 AM PDT by nascarnation (C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
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To: TexasCajun

Please don’t station me in Chicago,,,,send me to Afganistan,,,It’s safer there!


17 posted on 09/21/2015 10:18:21 AM PDT by nevergore
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