CHICAGO (WGN) — It’s been a violent Labor Day weekend in Chicago so far, with dozens of shooting victims and multiple deaths reported around the city since Friday evening,and the weekend isn't officially over yet. The Chicago Police Department will release official numbers Tuesday morning, but as of early Monday, WGN News counted 50 people shot, including eight killed, since 5 p.m. Friday.
The youngest person shot so far appears to be a 14-year-old boy, and at least three of the weekend shootings included multiple victims. According to WGN’s count, this year’s Labor Day weekend violence may have already surpassed last year’s, when a total of 31 people were shot.
Meanwhile, back in Illinois (but not in Chicago), Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nation’s third-largest city doesn’t need or want military intervention to fight crime.
You have to wonder how much longer the people of that city - or anywhere else for that matter - will put up with this kind of bullshit bluster while they're children are dying in the streets.
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"This year might surpass last year when we had 31 shot" and the count is over 50 by Monday morning. We don't hate journalists enough.
ReplyDeleteAs to when the Chicagoans will finally rise up, well, it's been like this since the late 1800s. Corrupt politics, murders unsolved, random shootings and killings, arsons and bombings, it's the Chicago Way!