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 ...
Should be “hot town , Summer in the city “
“Or does intellectual honesty just not matter when you are a Democrat and trying to make a political statement?”
Even the concept of intellectual honesty is completely foreign to Democrats. You are speaking Sanskrit to them.
Unlimited. The ferals breed like rats.
Never mind this. What did some anonymous stripper tell unnamed sources about having sex with President Trump?
I hafta wonder, since absolutely nobody even addresses this issue, how it is or isn't related to the eugenics movement mentioned at length by Justice Thomas? d;^)
EXACTLY. - The HATEFUL DIMocRAT MORONS, who misrule our major cities, rant/rave/scream/whine/whimper but are TOO GUTLESS to FIX the actual problem of violence. = VICIOUS CRIMINALS.
Yours, TMN78247
YEP. It did work well. - So did PROJECT EXILE.
Yours, TMN78247
+1.
Probably more efficient to just put a 40 foot wall around Chicago and keep them in.
Why is everyone concerned we have our own lesbian black women superhero mayor.
“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
Good one, especially the beer = bier line.
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