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35 Hurt, 7 Killed in Chicago Shootings
5 NBC Chicago ^ | June 18, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 06/18/2012 9:52:44 AM PDT by yoe

Weekend violence didn't stop for President Barack Obama's Chicago visit

President Barack Obama's visit to Chicago didn't stop another violent weekend.

At least seven people were killed and 35 were injured since Friday night. The youngest victim was a 16-year-old girl who died after she was shot three times in the chest Saturday evening in the Englewood neighborhood.

Ten people were shot overnight Friday, and in one hour Sunday morning, three people were killed. The latest shooting happened just after midnight Monday when a 19-year-old was shot to death on the city's North Side.

The shootings mark the third weekend in a row with gunfire injuries totaling well into the double digits. Last weekend, (link) across Chicago. The previous weekend, (29 hurt, 3 killed....) in shootings.

"None of it is OK," Supt. Garry McCarthy told NBC Chicago last week. "And I don't want it to seem like we're managing it, but the realistic expectations have to be over the long-term."

This weekend marked the beginning of an overtime incentive program to put more police in neighborhoods where crime is highest. Fewer than 60 officers signed up for the program, though.

President Obama and his family arrived in Chicago Friday evening. They attended the wedding of senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett's daughter, and the president spent Father's Day golfing with friends.


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To: RC2

I still like my thunderdome idea. They all enter but only one leaves. Little does the last one know that they are shot while on the way out.


21 posted on 06/18/2012 10:31:40 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: yoe

Chicago’s a liberal city. Ideas have consequences... Vote Republican.


22 posted on 06/18/2012 10:32:19 AM PDT by GOPJ (The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM fail to notice...)
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To: basil

The ideal society according to black democratic mayors and other garbage like NYC’s Bloomturd. “A society where only the police and military are armed” As long as no police or other government bureaucrats were hurt, then what happens to the peasants is of no consequence at all.


23 posted on 06/18/2012 10:35:32 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: yoe

More HOPE! and CHANGE!


24 posted on 06/18/2012 10:40:30 AM PDT by BipolarBob ("These aren't the droids you're looking for.")
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To: yoe

And all these gang shootings are counted by the feckless Brady anti-gun nut jobs as “children” who have been killed by guns.


25 posted on 06/18/2012 10:41:17 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: QT3.14
The redeye has is tracking homicide stats online here:

http://homicides.redeyechicago.com/date/2012/6/
26 posted on 06/18/2012 10:44:55 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for America)
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To: Petruchio
what a great father. I am sure his daughters loved hitting a few golf balls with their dad.... what? He didn't take his daughters????? But, the media tells us he is a great father and family guy!

Oh, well, I am sure he took the girls golfing the majority of those 100- 5 to 6 hour trips to the links. Right? No? Never?

What a lousy jerk. When does he spend time with the kids? When he looks at their picture in his wallet?????

27 posted on 06/18/2012 10:46:32 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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To: Jeff Chandler

resist we much!


28 posted on 06/18/2012 11:00:53 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: yoe

Wow.. “only” 35 wounded and seven killed?

Slow weekend... what did the cops do with all that extra time? Scout for environmental violations?


29 posted on 06/18/2012 11:02:08 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Buying Drain-O requires photo I.D... yet voting doesn't???)
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To: QT3.14

Afghanistan is the Dem’s war and Chicago is the Dem’s toddlin’ town.


30 posted on 06/18/2012 11:05:32 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: ScottinVA
The cops were over at ValJ's daughter's wedding.


31 posted on 06/18/2012 11:07:44 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: from occupied ga

Well, it may be one way to reduce the welfare rolls.........


32 posted on 06/18/2012 11:08:31 AM PDT by basil
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To: from occupied ga

Well, it may be one way to reduce the welfare rolls.........


33 posted on 06/18/2012 11:08:37 AM PDT by basil
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To: yoe

Car 54 Where Are You?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjtIO8Ifrsw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQfXPGCYlfI&feature=related


34 posted on 06/18/2012 11:17:18 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: cripplecreek

It was father’s day and they didn’t know who to shoot.


35 posted on 06/18/2012 11:39:18 AM PDT by Wordkraft (Remember who the Collaborators are.)
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To: rusty schucklefurd

If you only look at Afghanistan (compared to Chicago), there were fewer American deaths there than in Chicago.


36 posted on 06/18/2012 11:44:53 AM PDT by 12Gauge687
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To: yoe

YAWN, just same ol same ol, N-words shooting and killing other N-words. what’s new next, dog bites man?

If the N-word leaders are not concerned enough to stop it, why in the hell should I give a tinker’s dam?


37 posted on 06/18/2012 12:32:58 PM PDT by Sea Parrot (Youth And Brawn Are No Match For Age And Treachery. I'm Old And May Not Fight. I'll Shoot Instead.)
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To: cripplecreek

Are the Bulls even in the NBA finals?


38 posted on 06/18/2012 1:43:20 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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