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  • Wife of Minnesota suspect says she was ‘blindsided’ by shootings of state politicians

    06/27/2025 6:11:44 AM PDT · by Diana in Wisconsin · 20 replies
    Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | June 27, 2025 | CNN Bitter LOSERS
    The wife of suspect Vance Boelter spoke out for the first time since two Minnesota state politicians and their spouses were shot, saying she and her family are “absolutely shocked, heartbroken and completely blindsided” by the violent incident that killed one couple and seriously injured the other. Boelter is accused of killing Melissa Hortman, a member of the Minnesota State House, and her husband, Mark, as well as injuring John Hoffman, a member of the Minnesota State Senate, and his wife in a separate shooting. He is facing state and federal charges including murder, firearms offenses and stalking, and could...
  • Steamy weekend sees 26 shot, 3 fatally across Chicago

    06/23/2025 4:15:54 PM PDT · by CFW · 20 replies
    CWBChicago ^ | 6/23/25 | staff
    Despite the blistering heat, Chicago had relatively few shootings over the weekend, with three people killed and 23 others injured across the city, according to data from the crime tracking site HeyJackass.com. It’s the lowest shooting toll for the same weekend since 2018, which also had three killed and 23 injured, the site reported. In total, CPD handled 20 shooting incidents over the weekend, involving victims ranging in age from 11 to 63. So far, police have not announced charges in connection with any of the shootings. The department provided the following details about the crimes: Friday, June 20 1:58...
  • Stephen King: ‘Real Culprit’ in Minnesota Political Shootings Was ‘The Gun’

    06/20/2025 9:27:45 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 57 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/20/2025 | AWR Hawkins
    The Shining and It author Stephen King reacted to last weekend’s targeted shootings in Minnesota via an X post where he claimed the “real culprit” in the attacks was “the gun.” Breitbart News reported that Vance Boelter allegedly killed Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) and her husband in their home after shooting and severely wounding state Sen. John Hoffman (D) and his wife in theirs. Boelter allegedly dressed like a police officer and parked a car that resembled a police vehicle in the driveway of both homes as he carried out his attacks. King used an X post to...
  • Merkley on MN Lawmaker Shootings: Trump ‘Promoted’ This Violent Environment

    06/16/2025 8:14:21 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 54 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/16/2025 | Pam Key
    Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said Monday on CNN’s “News Central” that President Donald Trump “promoted” the violent environment that brought the shootings of Minnesota lawmakers over the weekend. Co-host John Berman said, “There was a state representative, Democratic leader of the state legislature in Minnesota killed over the weekend, a state senator shot. How would you describe the current political atmosphere in this country this morning?” Merkley said, “I feel like Trump has really popped the lid off of the rhetoric and the the sense of hate and violence and promoted this type of an environment. It’s profoundly disturbing for...
  • Minnesota Budget Deal Cuts Health Care for Adults Who Entered the US Illegally

    06/14/2025 8:42:46 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 16 replies
    US News, AP ^ | 6/9/25 | AP
    ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Adults living in the U.S. illegally will be excluded from a state-run health care program under an overall budget deal that the closely divided Minnesota Legislature convened to pass in a special session Monday. Repealing a 2023 state law that made those immigrants eligible for the MinnesotaCare program for the working poor was a priority for Republicans in the negotiations that produced the budget agreement. The Legislature is split 101-100, with the House tied and Democrats holding just a one-seat majority in the Senate, and the health care compromise was a bitter pill for Democrats...
  • Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson wishes America’s “Happy Africa Day.”

    05/26/2025 2:48:54 PM PDT · by DFG · 42 replies
    X ^ | 05/26/2025 | Oli London
    Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson wishes America’s “Happy Africa Day.” “I am proud to join you in recognizing and celebrating Africa Day.” The Democrat Mayor posted the video over the weekend.
  • Elias Rodriguez: Everything we know about alleged gunman behind Israel embassy staff shooting

    05/22/2025 9:56:45 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 29 replies
    The Standard ^ | 5/22/25 | Tamara Davison
    Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old man from Chicago, has been arrested by US authorities following the killing of two Israeli embassy workers on Wednesday evening. A man and a woman identified as a couple called Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram were pronounced dead at the scene near the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., after a gunman opened fire. It’s understood that the victims, who were both said to be Israeli nationals, had been attending a ‘Young Diplomats Reception’ before they were shot when leaving the event.
  • Supreme Court rules totality of circumstances must be considered in police shootings

    05/15/2025 4:28:32 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    The Washington Post ^ | Updated May 15, 2025 at 3:13 p.m. EDT | Justin Jouvenal
    The Supreme Court ruled that the totality of circumstances must be considered when determining whether a police shooting is justified, not just the seconds before an officer opens fire.The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that the totality of circumstances must be considered when determining whether a police shooting is justified — not just the split seconds before an officer opens fire — in a case involving the fatal shooting of a Black man from Texas. The broader standard is likely to make it easier for victims to prove allegations of excessive force in court. The high court revived a lawsuit...
  • Shootings spike as temperatures rise in NYC, surging over 50% last week: NYPD data

    05/02/2025 1:07:19 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    NY Post ^ | 05/02/2025 | y Larry Celona and Amanda Woods
    Gun violence in New York City has spiked along with the mercury, with shootings up more than 50% last week compared to the same time last year — indicating that the Big Apple could be in for a bloody summer. A total of 23 shootings were reported across the five boroughs in the week starting April 21, according to new NYPD statistics — an increase of 53% from the 15 shootings tallied over the same period in 2024. Temperatures in Gotham hit a high of 82 degrees last Tuesday, making it the second-warmest day in April, according to Accuweather. Last...
  • Gang behind slaughter of 41 women at Honduran prison, officials say

    06/21/2023 4:28:10 AM PDT · by zeestephen · 19 replies
    The Associated Press (Via MSN.com) ^ | 20 June 2023 | Marlon Gonzalez
    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Inmates had complained for weeks they were being threatened by gang members at a women's prison in Honduras. The gang fulfilled those threats, slaughtering 41 women, many of them burned, shot, or stabbed to death.
  • NYC shootings fall to 30-year record low as crime drops citywide, NYPD data shows

    03/03/2025 1:13:12 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 24 replies
    NY Post ^ | 03/03/2025 | Amanda Woods, Larry Celona, Joe Marino and Matt Troutman
    New York City has broken a 30-year record for the fewest number of shootings in the first two months of the year, police revealed Monday. The city saw 93 incidents of gun violence between January and February, the fewest for those months since 1993, officials said. Newly released NYPD statistics for February not only showed that dramatic drop in shootings, but also a 14.5% decline in overall serious crimes compared to the same month last year. “In the first two months of 2025, New York City experienced the fewest number of shooting incidents in the past 30 years, and the...
  • How an MIT graduate student planned a Yale student's near perfect murder

    01/27/2025 6:42:32 AM PST · by Red Badger · 61 replies
    CBS News ^ | January 27, 2025 | Emma Steele
    Kevin Jiang was a 26-year-old Yale graduate student, an Army veteran, and, his friends say, a man of faith who volunteered with the homeless. He seemed to have no enemies, and no one could figure out why someone may have targeted him on Feb. 6, 2021, when he was shot in the street not far from his fiancée's apartment in New Haven, Connecticut. Jiang had been driving down the street when his car was struck from behind, and when he got out, possibly to exchange information with the other driver police say, that driver opened fire, shooting him eight times....
  • CNN Claims There Have Been ’83 School Shootings’ This Year

    12/16/2024 1:14:36 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/16/2024 | Awr Hawkins
    Just hours after the shooting at Madison, Wisconsin’s, Abundant Life Christian School, CNN claimed there have been “83 school shootings” during 2024 alone. CNN claimed, “As of December 16 – the 351st day of the year – there have been 83 school shootings in the United States in 2024.” CNN did not provide any links to the myriad school shootings they claim have occurred. Rather, they pointed out that they pulled their information from the “CNN school shooting database.”
  • Suspect in shootings of Democratic office in Arizona had over 120 guns in his home, officials find

    10/24/2024 5:38:27 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 43 replies
    https://www.ctvnews.ca ^ | Oct 24 2024 | Anita Snow and Walter Berry
    TEMPE, ARIZ. - An Arizona prosecutor said the man arrested in the shooting of a Democratic National Committee office in suburban Phoenix had more than 120 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home, leading law enforcement to believe he may have been planning a mass casualty event. Maricopa County prosecutor Neha Bhatia said at Jeffrey Michael Kelly's initial court appearance on Wednesday that federal agents told her about the large seizure made after Kelly's arrest. Scopes, body armour and silencers were also found, she said. A machine gun was discovered in the car he was driving.
  • BLM Folk Hero Chris Kaba Revealed as Violent Gang Member Suspected in Multiple Shootings

    10/22/2024 8:59:55 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 6 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/22/2024 | Kurt Zindulka
    Chris Kaba, who was elevated to George Floyd-esque martyrdom status in Britain after being killed during an altercation with police in 2022, has now been revealed to have been a serial violent criminal offender and a member of one of London’s most feared gangs, which put out a hit on a police officer following Kaba’s death. In September 2022, Kaba was stopped by police over suspicion that his car was tied to a firearms offence the previous day. Rather than complying with the officers, Kaba refused to leave his vehicle and ultimately used his car as a “battering ram” against...
  • Joe Biden Claims He Has ‘Been to All but 3 Mass Shootings in the United States’

    09/26/2024 5:26:24 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/26/2024 | Awr Hawkins
    While announcing more executive gun control Thursday night, President Joe Biden (D) claimed he has “been to all but three mass shootings in the United States of America.” Biden was talking about “spending time with surviving families” when he said, “I’ve been to all but three mass shootings in the United States of America.” Understand that the National Firearms Act (1934) was passed, in part, because of the St. Valentine’s massacre of 1929. Seven people were killed in that shooting, but Biden was not born until 1942 so he could not have “been there” for that one.
  • Kaine: It’s a ‘Lie’ to Blame Trump Shootings on Dem Rhetoric, ‘Look at the Identities’ of the Shooters

    09/21/2024 11:14:51 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 40 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/21/2024 | Ian hatchett
    During an interview with ABC News on Friday, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) responded to charges from Republicans that rhetoric about 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump might have led to the assassination attempts of Trump by stating that we should “look at the identities of these two deranged individuals who carried out these attacks.” And “Donald Trump inspired an attack on the Capitol on January 6. And the Republicans might want us to stop talking about that and what that means, but it’s a fact.”
  • Mayor Adams touts drop in NYC murders, shootings in annual report: ‘Our efforts are working’

    09/16/2024 11:50:23 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    NY Post ^ | 09/16/2024 | Carl Campanile
    Murder and shootings plummeted in the Big Apple during the past fiscal year, according to the city’s annual management report, which was released Monday by Mayor Eric Adams. While soaring crime persists in some areas, such as tourist-packed Midtown Manhattan, the city generally fared better overall July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024, when compared to the same period last year, the report found. Murder and manslaughter plummeted 15%, dropping from 424 to 359 of the crimes. Shootings fell 18%, from 1,140 to 932, and the report cites a big drop in gang-related violence. Burglaries decreased 13%, from 15,054 to...
  • Chicago at Nearly 1,200 Shootings for 2024 Following July 4 Carnage

    07/13/2024 11:10:41 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 07/13/2024 | Awr Hawkins
    ABC 7 noted that, as of Sunday, July 7, 2024, Chicago, Illinois, was nearly at 1,200 shootings for 2024. Ironically, Sunday was the last day of the July 4, 2024, weekend — a weekend in which at least 100 people were shot, 17 of them fatally, in the Windy City. According to ABC 7, Chicago Police Superintendent Larry Snelling reacted to the July 4 weekend violence by saying, “We cannot take our eyes off the ball. We cannot stop thinking about the people who have been victimized by this crime.”
  • Chicago shootings: At least 41 shot, 9 fatally, in citywide Memorial Day weekend violence, CPD says

    05/28/2024 11:02:39 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 20 replies
    ABC News Local ^ | May 28, 2024 | By Tre Ward, and Cate Cauguiran
    CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's been a violent holiday weekend so far in Chicago. At least 41 people have been shot, nine fatally, since Friday evening. One of those shootings left a 5-year-old girl dead. Despite the still high shooting numbers, calls to stop the gun violence in the city seemed to have an impact. This holiday weekend's violence numbers, so far, are lower than last year's, when 53 people were shot, 11 fatally. The long weekend is putting Mayor Brandon Johnson's summer safety plan to the test. He spoke during a community walk over the weekend, criticizing previous administrations for...