Posted on 11/02/2016 4:09:45 PM PDT by Lorianne
According to the Chicago Tribune, of the 17 victims from this weekend's violence, 7 of them were under the age of 20, with the youngest victim being only 14.
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The weekend toll also was deadlier than the three long summer holiday weekends when violence typically spikes because of the warm weather. Six people were fatally shot over the Memorial Day weekend, five over the Fourth of July weekend and 13 people over Labor Day weekend, according to Tribune data.
This past weekend there were shootings in every area of the city but the Far North and Northwest sides, according to police. Of the 17 people who were killed, seven were younger than 20.
The youngest was 14-year-old Demarco Webster Jr., described by his grade school principal as one of her best students. Demarco had planned to run for student council and try out for basketball, and he was being recruited for an NAACP leadership program.
A little more than 24 hours later, 17-year-old twins Edward and Edwin Bryant were killed in an apparent drive-by shooting in Old Town. Police responding to calls about gunfire found one of the boys lying on the sidewalk in the 400 block of West Evergreen Avenue and another around the corner in the 1300 block of North Hudson Avenue.
"The two brothers, as far as we can tell, they didn't have any documented gang affiliation," said Johnson, who noted police recovered video of the shooting. "But the individuals they were with did." ::
While journalists suggested that the police department was caught off guard by gang violence linked to large crowds around Wrigley Field, police Superintendent Eddie Johnson insists that extra resources were deployed to the most dangerous neighborhoods around Chicago.
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How many babies are aborted there every weekend?
Oh, and if it’s the same 14 year-old victim I read about a few days ago, the future NAACP leader was out walking the streets at 1:30 AM.
Bingo ... and it could be just as bad if they do win .... the tribes will celebrate wildly with firewater and happy snorts and then resume the tribal warfare!
Pity Demarco......... budding black politico snuffed out before his first election
The mayor of Chicago probably had this response: Who cares...they are only ni****s.
We’re not talking rocket surgeons here.
Finally shooting straight.
I wonder if more people die violently in Chicago then in whatever war we are presently fighting. Yearly total for Chicago has to be quite high.
I’ve heard people say that Chicago is more dangerous than Iraq, but they didn’t say in what context: day, week, month, year, shootings, deaths, military, civilian. It would take some digging around to compare apples to apples.
The answer is not gun control it’s clothing control. If they would outlaw clothing they would not have a place to hide their guns plus on colder days they would stay inside.
Hey, it makes as much sense as a non existent gun control.
The Cubs are ahead in the game-——the rioting will be bad whether they win or loose——they have an excuse.
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They must have gotten a new shipment of 84” TVs in downtown Evanston; but somehow I don’t think they need an excuse for rioting, looting and mayhem. The cop shops are probably ordering-in plenty of pizzas for the next 24-48hrs.
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