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At least 42 people shot in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend
Chicago Tribune ^ | 5-28-19 | Alice Yin and Jeremy Gorner

Posted on 05/28/2019 12:51:03 PM PDT by dynachrome

t least 42 people were shot, seven fatally, in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend even as severe storms kept people indoors and 1,200 extra officers patrolled the streets.

The toll was slightly higher than last year’s Memorial Day weekend, when 39 people were shot, seven of them fatally, according to shooting data kept by the Tribune. In 2017, 45 people were shot, seven of them killed. And in 2016, 71 people shot, six of them fatally, in one of the most violent Memorial Day weekends in recent years.

“That is just an unacceptable state of affairs,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot told reporters after a Monday ceremony at a Grant Park monument to commemorate the nation’s war dead.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; chicagocrime; georgesoros; grantpark; illinois; jussiesmollett; kimfoxx; memorialday; michelleobama; rahmemanuel; rlorilightfoot; shootings; smollett
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To: dynachrome

——And she will do what about it?-——

Ask for Federal money of course.

Being black, she is the problem core


21 posted on 05/28/2019 1:08:54 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: dynachrome

An unacceptable state of affairs for 50 years running.


22 posted on 05/28/2019 1:09:11 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standaurds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: LydiaLong

And the Ethiopian Mayor also said the CPD needed to be brought under control. Yeah, that should help things out.


23 posted on 05/28/2019 1:11:36 PM PDT by technically right
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To: dynachrome
What will she do about it?

Why, she'll campaign on a promise to solve the problem like every Chicago politician has done for the last 50 years. If it ain't broke, you can't campaign on it.

24 posted on 05/28/2019 1:12:12 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standaurds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: dynachrome

Urban renewal thanks to strict gun laws.


25 posted on 05/28/2019 1:12:42 PM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: dynachrome

Yin and Gorner? Really? I always thought it was something else.


26 posted on 05/28/2019 1:13:30 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standaurds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

Universal background checks and climate control would bring this to a minimum real quick, but Trump and the NRA wan’t to kill minorities. /s


27 posted on 05/28/2019 1:14:51 PM PDT by umgud
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To: dynachrome
From last week....

Chicago Prepares for Memorial Day Weekend Violence

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Looks like the Killing Season got off to a great start. Just think how many more shootings there would have been if it weren't for that pesky rain.

28 posted on 05/28/2019 1:19:31 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: dynachrome
♪ ♫ ♬
Chicago, Chicago
That Toddlin' Town...
♪ ♫ ♬

29 posted on 05/28/2019 1:25:32 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: TMN78247

Actually, they need a “Star Chamber”, to ID, send out SF teams to track down the criminals and gangs, kill them, and dispose of the bodies. 1-3yrs and Chicago’s liveable again.


30 posted on 05/28/2019 1:30:39 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: PGalt

Yep Heyjackass has all the good stats, like the “shot in the junk”
stat.


31 posted on 05/28/2019 1:30:53 PM PDT by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: dynachrome

Way to go Chicongo! How can this be though? Guns are illegal there.


32 posted on 05/28/2019 1:33:52 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: dynachrome
What could possibly be wrong about the existing gun laws that were supposed to prevent this?
Oh yea, criminals don't care about the laws.

33 posted on 05/28/2019 1:40:22 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: dynachrome

They need more gun control.

That will solve the gun violence problem.


34 posted on 05/28/2019 1:51:41 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: dynachrome

Typical Memorial Day weekend ?

4th of July is a 4 day weekend (Thursday to Sunday), the bar has been raised.


35 posted on 05/28/2019 1:51:51 PM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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To: dynachrome

Hello, it was a three day weekend so the numbers are not like a standard two day weekend! /S


36 posted on 05/28/2019 1:54:04 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“...But how can anyone be intellectually honest and blame Whitey, when the overwhelming majority of both gunmen and victims, are black?”


Oh, that’s easy. The people who own the gun-producing factories are white. Most of the gunshot owners (in Indiana, of course) are white. Most of the people whose stolen guns are used in the shootings are white. Wakanda doesn’t have this kind of problem.


37 posted on 05/28/2019 1:59:21 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: SMGFan

“4th of July is a 4 day weekend”

If 1200 cops couldn’t contain rainy holiday.....


38 posted on 05/28/2019 2:06:10 PM PDT by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: TMN78247

Stop-and-frisk worked.


39 posted on 05/28/2019 2:06:41 PM PDT by dynachrome (Build the wall, deport them all.)
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To: dynachrome; chigirl; carriage_hill; oswegodeee; flaglady47; Road Warrior ‘04; M Kehoe; nopardons; .
I'm from Chicago and I ought to know
It's blasts, blasts, blasts wherever you go
Smoother and fresher, more killing.....it's clear
Blasts makes Chicago a favorite bier

Leni

40 posted on 05/28/2019 2:07:49 PM PDT by MinuteGal ( MAGA ! ! !....MAGA ! ! !....MAGA ! ! !)
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