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Posted on 06/17/2021 3:51:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO (CBS) — A balloon release was held Wednesday night for the victims of a mass shooting in Chicago, but it was also about releasing pain – as the repeated mass shootings cause lasting damage.
There were two mass shootings in 24 hours this week – one in Englewood that left four people dead and four more injured, and another in West Garfield Park that wounded five people.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city is safe and police have a handle and a clear strategy to combat gun violence. But as CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported Wednesday night, the families who are now grieving don’t see it that way.
Candles burned Wednesday night to remember the eight people shot inside a house in the 6200 block of South Morgan Street early Tuesday. Four of them died – Denice Mathis, 32; Ratanya Aryiel Rogers, 28; Blake Lee, 34; and Shermetria Williams, 19.
“This was not her destiny,” said Shermetria Williams’ sister, Deon Williams. “She just graduated yesterday.”
“We shouldn’t have to worry about being gunned down in our own home,” said Robyn Eddmonds, a friend of the victims.
The majority of the victims in the Englewood incident were shot in the head – likely by two gunmen, according to police.
“The people in that home didn’t deserve this,” Eddmonds said. “They wasn’t gangbangers. They wasn’t drug dealers.”
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My wife’s close friend from med school was an ER Physician in the Cook County Hospital ER until recently when he had a heart attack while working.
I used to kid him about his work in the combat MASH Unit. He spent most of his career treating bullet wounds.
She’s a combination of Beetle Juice and Sargent Schultz, basically she’s a bug eyed incompetent who knows nothing
Well perhaps for some of these folks it’s an improvement from the trauma induced by the dreadful China Flu and the equally dreadful Orange Man Bad.
“...as the repeated mass shootings cause lasting damage...”
But on the upside it’s excellent training for nurses, interns and residents.😎
My city also has balloon releases and many activist groups, but what we do not have is enough police, a drug interdiction unit, or a gang busting unit.
The darn Mylar balloons clog the sewers.
They will blame it all on the guns.
After all, the mayor did say theses calming words: Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city is safe and police have a handle and a clear strategy to combat gun violence.
“A balloon release was held Wednesday night...”
Liberals are the masters of the pointless gesture. # sign anyone?
#GoPoundYourself
Lightfoot needs to stop taking crack cocaine in large amounts.
Idiot mayor is defiant
Defiant over what?
Hundreds of mostly black people getting slaughtered by other black people?
And none in prison for gun crimes
“Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city is safe and police have a handle and a clear strategy to combat gun violence.”
The woman is quite clearly insane.
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Barack Obama: “ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES”
CHICAGO’S LAST REPUBLICAN MAYOR: William Thompson elected in 1927
2019 MAYORAL ELECTION TURNOUT: 33%
MAKE A GUESS:
How many of the adults mentioned in the article voted in the last mayoral election?
Of those, How many voted for Mayor Lori Lightweight?
She looks like something out of the Star Wars ‘Bar Scene’.
The deaths of such victims is on Lori Lightfoot, the Democrat Party, and CBS/Viacom.
The victims of the shootings couldn’t care less about a bunch of helium-filled balloons. What killed them is the fact that democrats have deliberately created and nurtured a permanent, violent underclass that has no concept of right or wrong and sees nothing wrong with killing someone.
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