Chicago off to deadliest start in nearly two decades

[easyt65]

In 2015 Chicago set new records for number of gun violence / murders....

Obama hardly ever mentioned the record or Chicago at all, neither did his ex-employee now in charge of Chicago, Rhambo Emmanuel. In fact when the violence in Chicago was brought up we were all but told we could not talk about it or talk about black-on-black crime. Obama never missed an opportunity to publicize the extremely more rare mass shootings across the country. Hell, any weekend in Chicago surpassed the mass shootings Obama chose to politicize, happening repeatedly, every weekend.

Chicago is on pace to shatter 2015's record....and still no mention of it from Obama. I guess that makes 2 bloody topics refused to publicize, the 1st being the terrorist to whom he gave a vise and welcomed into the US where they gunned down 12 Americans and now Chicago. They don't fit his political narrative of agenda.

Maybe he and Michelle should head back to Chicago after he steps down as President...cause it sure looks like they could use some of his 'Community Organizing'.

Chicago off to deadliest start in nearly two decades

 

[waltky]

Chicago resident says martial law needed...

City of Chicago Has Deadliest May in 21 Years
June 1, 2016 - A total of 66 homicides makes it the deadliest May in Chicago since 1995, when 75 were recorded, according to police records.

The gray sedan was parked in the ambulance bay of the hospital, its doors open and bullet holes just above and below the driver’s side window. Minutes earlier, 15-year-old Fabian Lavinder was in the car on 89th Street when another car pulled up and someone shot him in the chest. The driver took the boy to Advocate Trinity Hospital, where he died shortly before 11 p.m. Tuesday. Lavinder was the 66th and final homicide for last month, the deadliest May in Chicago since 1995, when 75 were recorded, according to police records. He was among nearly 400 people shot last month.

The month’s toll was fueled by a Memorial Day weekend that saw six killed and 63 wounded, and a Mother’s Day weekend when more than 50 people were shot, eight fatally, in the most violent weekend since September. That brought the total number of people shot in Chicago so far this year to more than 1,500. At least 250 of them died. In 1995, there were 320 murders at this time, police data show. A closer month for comparison is May 1998, when there were 65 murders for the month and 269 so far that year — not much higher that this year’s total, according to department data. There were 704 murders that entire year, police said. Tuesday night, police wrapped yellow crime tape around the sedan after Fabian was taken into Trinity Hospital. More than a dozen relatives and friends stood near the emergency entrance. They hugged, cried and smoked cigarettes.

A member of the Chicago Police Department inspects a vehicle taped off in front of Advocate Trinity Hospital in Chicago​

A man in a black T-shirt and jeans walked back and forth on the sidewalk across from the hospital. He held his head in his hands as he sobbed. “We should have just stayed in the ’burbs, man,” he said to no one in particular. “We should have just stayed in the ’burbs. … This is bogus.” A woman in a gray T-shirt and long jean shorts walked out of the emergency room and started crying and breathing heavily. She and other relatives and friends walked up to the man in the black T-shirt. “He was in that car?” she asked, pointing at the sedan. “And they just shot it up?” The man nodded yes. The woman’s wailing grew louder. She said the 15-year-old was her brother. A woman in a white T-shirt put her arms around her shoulders, consoling her.

As time passed, more relatives walked in and out of the hospital. A woman in dark shorts and a white-black top came out. She started walking toward the gray car, crying. Her sister, the woman in the gray T-shirt, put her arms around her, holding her back. “All I want to know is where my little brother is,” the woman yelled. “I just want to see him.” The two sisters hugged after a moment, sobbing together. Pamela Johnson, 44, a friend of the family, stood nearby with crossed arms, shaking her head. “We need martial law. Period,” Johnson said. “If it’s to protect our children, then so be it. … There is a difference between Millennium Park and 95th Street.”

City of Chicago Has Deadliest May in 21 Years | Officer.com

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Chicago's Top Cop Bemoans Senseless Violence
June 1, 2016 - A total of 69 people were shot and 6 were fatally wounded during a violent Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

Coming off a violent Memorial Day weekend, Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson stuck to familiar themes in a speech Tuesday to the City Club of Chicago, bemoaning the senselessness of all the shootings, the department's fractured relationship with the community and the broken judicial system that is too much a revolving door for the most dangerous criminals. Johnson also lamented a gang culture that sinks its hooks into youngsters in Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods "almost at birth," he said. "So by the time they're 12, their destiny is set," he told a few hundred civic leaders. "It's either prison or death."

Since Mayor Rahm Emanuel named him superintendent in a surprise move in March, Johnson has been emphasizing that the department knows who the violent offenders are but needs the help of the criminal justice system to keep them locked up for longer periods. To that point, he later told reporters that fully four-fifths of the 69 shooting victims over the Memorial Day weekend were on the "strategic subject list" — a list of about 1,400 known gang members believed to be most prone to violence, compiled by the department using a computerized algorithm. Six died of their injuries.

A total of 69 people were shot and 6 were fatally wounded during a violent Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.​

On a day the city agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit by two whistleblower cops, Johnson also told reporters he's working with the department's Bureau of Internal Affairs on a way to make it easier for officers to report misconduct against colleagues. Stopping short of specifics, he said "a big penalty" would be assessed against officers found to harass another cop for reporting misconduct. "We want officers to report misconduct or inappropriate behavior, but we don't want them to be ostracized by their colleagues," he said.

In addition to touching on Chicago's violence problem, Johnson talked about how the Police Department is trying to rebuild trust with the community following the release six months ago of the video of a white Chicago police officer shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times. Toward that end, officers on all three watches in two police districts — Austin on the West Side and Shakespeare on the Northwest Side — will be the first equipped with body cameras by next week, he said. Johnson briefly addressed the Memorial Day weekend violence, calling many of the shootings "random with no rhyme or reason." "I wish we could track the number of crimes we prevented, but we can't," he said.

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[waltky]

Mexican 'Voice' contestant dies of shooting in Chicago...

Singer on Mexican 'The Voice' dies in Chicago after shooting
June 18, 2016 — A Chicago singer who appeared on the Mexican version of "The Voice" in 2011 has died after he was shot in an ambush while celebrating his birthday with friends.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's office confirmed that 45-year-old Alejandro "Jano" Fuentes died on Saturday. He was shot three times in the head late Thursday outside his Tras Bambalinas School on Chicago's southwest side.

The attack happened less than a week after the killing of Christina Grimmie, who appeared on the U.S. version of the show. Authorities say a man shot her while she was signing autographs after a performance in Orlando, Florida. The man then killed himself.

Fuentes got into his car with friends and an armed man suddenly ordered Fuentes out of that vehicle and shot him. Police said they had no suspects in the attack. WGN television said police were investigating whether the shooting was an attempted carjacking or a robbery. Friends of Fuentes in Chicago said they were holding a vigil and memorial for the singer at his studio in Chicago on Saturday evening.

Singer on Mexican 'The Voice' dies in Chicago after shooting

 

[tyroneweaver]

Chicago murder rate up under obama
Terrorist attacks in USA up under BHO

Do we see a pattern here folks

 

[Mr. H.]

Fuck that motherfucker. Anti-American Muslim transgender slow-poke Forrest Gump fuck.