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CHICAGO -- Thirty-two people were shot and six killed so far in Chicago weekend gun violence. A 15-year-old girl was in critical condition Saturday after being shot on the South Side. She was riding in the back seat of a car about 5 p.m. in the 10300-block of South Halsted Street when someone unleashed gunfire, Chicago police said. The teen was struck in the head and taken to Comer Children's Hospital in critical condition, police said. Hours earlier, a woman was killed and another wounded in a shooting about a block away. A University of Chicago student is among the...

Prosecutors have charged 19 alleged Brooklyn gang members in connection with “senseless” shootings and “execution-style” homicides — that earned the shooters NBA nicknames, including “Shaq” and “Curry,” authorities said Wednesday. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said the alleged “900 Gang” members, some of whom were just 16-years-old, were believed to have played a part in two murders and 10 non-fatal shootings over the last two years.

CHICAGO -- At least five people have been killed and 25 others wounded in citywide shootings so far this holiday weekend. In the weekend's latest fatal attack, a man was killed in a shooting Sunday in Grand Crossing on the South Side. The 29-year-old was found inside a 2011 Chevy Malibu about 7:10 p.m. in the 6800-block of South Stony Avenue with multiple gunshot wounds on the chest, Chicago police said. He was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner's office hasn't released details on the death. About 12:55 a.m.,...

Eleven people were shot, three of them fatally, Monday in Chicago, including a man who was killed in a shooting during a robbery in Bridgeport on the South Side. In the day’s first reported shooting, a 33-year-old man was wounded in Austin on the West Side. The man was sitting in a parked car about 1:20 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Mason Avenue when shots were fired, police said. He was transported to Stroger Hospital in fair condition. Thirty-eight people were shot, six of them killed, last weekend citywide.

The mother of a Florida teenager who was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy this month was wounded at his burial service Saturday. Quasheda Pierce, 39, was hit when a shot rang out at Riverview Memorial Gardens in Cocoa, where 18-year-old Sincere Pierce was being laid to rest just over two weeks after he and another teen were shot dead by a Brevard County Sheriff’s deputy. Police said the wounded woman and a 16-year-old boy were both struck when a gun the teen was carrying at the burial “experienced an accidental discharge” and struck both of them, WOFL-TV reported...

Deputy U.S. Marshals from the District of Arizona arrested 140 people in August and September during a violent gang enforcement operation. Deputies executed “Operation Snake Eyes” in the Phoenix metropolitan area. U.S. Marshals Service deputies carried out a six-week operation beginning on August 10 in the Phoenix area to target violent fugitives and gang members, AZFamily.com reported. Operation Snake Eyes (OSE) led to the arrest of 140 fugitives, including 51 gang members, and the seizure of a large number of firearms and cash. “One issue that most people will agree with while debating police issues, is that those who intentionally...

As violence fluctuated this summer in Baltimore, the recent week in September left at least 45 people shot throughout the city — 12 of them dead since last Sunday, according to Baltimore police data. Baltimore police confirmed on Sunday that from Sept. 6 to Sept. 13, 33 people were injured in shootings and 12 others were killed. But the week had already started off rough, coming off of a violent Labor Day weekend after 12 people had been shot, two others being killed and one person who was fatally stabbed. The latest shooting occurred overnight, around 12:24 a.m. in 700...

Anti-violence and anti-police, but manages to hang with an armed asshole who shot him in the absence of police. How very droll. We used to tell stories like this on occasion about gangbangers firing blindly over their shoulders as they ran away to disbelieving family members who couldn't understand how so many shots were fired without hits and then a few innocents managed to catch bullets. This is exactly how and why.

The FBI has warned Chicago-area law enforcement that nearly three-dozen street gangs "have formed a pact to 'shoot on-site any cop that has a weapon drawn on any subject in public'," reports ABC7. According to an August 26 'situation information report' from Chicago-based FBI officials, "members of these gang factions have been actively searching for, and filming, police officers in performance of their official duties. The purpose of which is to catch on film an officer drawing his/her weapon on any subject and the subsequent 'shoot on-site' of said officer, in order to garner national media attention." Alerts based...

Multiple Chicago street gangs have struck a pact to shoot Chicago Police Department (CPD) members if officers draw their weapons on suspects in public, according to a newly obtained federal intelligence warning. WLS reports: The “situational information report” from FBI officials in Chicago dated August 26, 2020, states “members of these gang factions have been actively searching for, and filming, police officers in performance of their official duties. The purpose of which is to catch on film an officer drawing his/her weapon on any subject and the subsequent ‘shoot on-site’ of said officer, in order to garner national media attention.”...

If you want to find "systemic racism" in America, then look no further than the public schooling system, which is "maintained by the Democrat Party and the teachers' unions," said Attorney General William P. Barr. The entire system keeps "inner-city kids in failing schools ... The racism in this country, look no further than our public education system... That's a racist system, maintained by the Democrat Party and the teachers union... keeping inner-city kids in failing schools, instead of putting the resources in the hands of the parents to choose the schools to send their kids to. That's empowering kids......

Criminal gangs have swept through so much of the educational system in England that staff at one-third of the country’s secondary schools believe gangs have groomed pupils, a report has found. A poll of teachers at almost 1,300 English schools found that drug dealers and other criminal gangs are controlling pupils as young as eight, with the rot spreading throughout the country and not just limited to urban areas. According to an analysis conducted by The Times - which covered schools with approximately 500,000 pupils - over 60 per cent of secondary schools have been forced to search pupils with...

Gunfire erupted at outdoor cookout that drew hundreds of people. A Washington, D.C. police officer is "fighting for her life" after being wounded early Sunday in a shootout that killed a teenager and sent many people to the hospital, Police Chief Peter Newsham said at a press conference.

Shocking video shows a father and his daughter getting a vicious beatdown inside a Harlem bodega, police say. The violent encounter unfolded around 11:15 p.m. July 7 inside 2090 Amsterdam Ave. in Washington Heights, cops said.

(AFP) - A shootout outside a funeral parlour left 14 people wounded Tuesday in Chicago, as President Donald Trump threatens to send federal agents to a handful of US cities led by Democratic mayors. The incident started when occupants of a vehicle "began firing at attendees of a funeral. At that time the attendees of the funeral exchanged fire," Chicago deputy police superintendent Eric Carter told reporters. Shootings have become breathtakingly normal this summer across the United States. A total of 63 people were shot and 12 killed over the weekend in Chicago in ongoing gun violence. Carter said 14...

Washington (AFP) -- A five-month old baby boy struck in the head by a bullet in a drive-by shooting in Chicago Thursday became the youngest victim yet of gun violence battering US cities already hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic. Shootings have become breathtakingly normal this summer across the United States. Hundreds have been killed including dozens of children, and thousands wounded. The shootings have been stoked by the social and economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic, pullbacks by police under attack for abuse of African Americans, the hot summer's pull on people to the streets, and by social media-fuelled gang...

Oval Office11:32 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  We have a very important announcement, and we’re going to state some facts and things that have happened recently that are very positive in terms of crime and crime prevention.  This is about MS-13.And we’ll have another announcement next week with the Attorney General, the FBI, and others concerning our cities, because the left-wing group of people that are running our cities are not doing the job that they’re supposed to be doing.  And it’s not a very tough job to do if they knew what they were doing.  So...

LOS ANGELES - Three Los Angeles police officers have been charged with falsifying records reporting that people they stopped were gang members or associates, prosecutors said Friday. The members of the Police Department’s Metropolitan Division were charged Thursday in a 59-count complaint alleging one count each of conspiracy to obstruct justice and multiple counts of filing a false police report and preparing false documentary evidence. The officers were identified as Braxton Shaw, 37; Michael Coblentz, 42, and Nicolas Martinez, 36. Directors of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union representing LAPD officers, said it expects the department “to investigate...

Thirteen people have been killed and at least 54 others injured in shootings across Chicago so far over the Fourth of July weekend. Nine of the weekend’s victims were minors, and two of the children died from their injuries. A 14-year-old boy was among four people killed in a shooting that wounded four others Saturday night in Englewood on the South Side. They were at a large gathering in the street about 11:35 p.m. in the 6100 block of South Carpenter Street when four males walked up and started shooting, according to Chicago police. The 14-year-old boy was hit in...

Just a gun battle in the streets. https://twitter.com/KyleKashuv/status/1277072884754788353