It sure is lucky Rahm Emmanuel’s liberal paradise of Chicago has the toughest gun laws in Illinois. Imagine how many people would have been shot if they weren’t so tough. I didn’t see anything about these Chicago festivities on the national MSM news stations. I guess 9 dead black people only matters if they are killed by a white boy. Black lives matter whenever it is convenient for the race baiters like Obama, Sharpton, and Jackson to make it matter. The liberal MSM eats up the racism angle whenever a white person is involved. Of course, 93% of all black shootings were committed by other blacks. That statistic never makes the news. It doesn’t support the storyline.
Is there a flag we can start banning due to the slaughter of black people by other black people in Chicago?
I just know this horrific slaughter of black people by black people will lead to an open dialogue of how white people are to blame. I think stronger gun laws will surely stop criminals from killing people without guns. Maybe if we give the Chicago teacher’s union another $100 million they can teach black kids not to shoot each other.
9 dead, 47 injured in Fourth of July weekend shootings
Fourth of July weekend shootings have left nine people dead — including a 7-year-old boy — and at least 47 others injured since Thursday evening.
Seven-year-old Amari Brown was killed in a shooting that also left a 26-year-old woman wounded late Saturday in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
Amari, who lived in the 500 block of North Drake, was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:56 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Police said Sunday the bullet that fatally wounded 7-year-old Amari Brown on the Fourth of July was meant for his father. Both Amari and the 26-year-old woman were shot at 11:55 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Harding, police said.
The boy’s father, Antonio Brown, is a ranking gang member with 45 previous arrests and was not cooperating with police as of Sunday afternoon as they tried to find his son’s killer, Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said Sunday.
“It’s crazy. Like who would shoot a 7-year-old? He got shot in the chest. Who would do that? To a baby?” Amari’s grandmother, 52-year-old Vida Hailey asked as she waited for news outside Stroger. “All the kids that are getting killed out here – it’s crazy. When is it going to stop?”
The 26-year-old woman was shot in the chest and taken to Stroger, where her condition stabilized.
In the most recent fatal shooting, a 48-year-old man was killed in a Sunday afternoon shooting in the Calumet Heights neighborhood.
Anthony Strong was shot in the right chest about 4:55 p.m. in the 9200 block of South Harper, police said.
Strong, who lived where he was shot, was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 6:06 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said.
Police added that a “person of interest” is in custody.
Earlier, two brothers from Missouri died Sunday morning after shots were fired at an SUV in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the South Side.
John Hunter, 25, and his 31-year-old brother Willie Hunter were sitting inside a Chevrolet SUV about 6:10 a.m. in the 8800 block of South Bishop, when another male walked up and opened fire, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
The SUV — driven by the younger brother — sped away, but then crashed into a building in the 1600 block of West 89th, authorities said.
John Hunter, of the 300 block of East Ashley Street in Jefferson City, Missouri, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body. He was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead at 7 a.m., authorities said.
Willie Hunter, of the 1200 block of East High Street in Jefferson City, was discovered unresponsive in the vehicle and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
It was not immediately known whether the older brother died from gunshot wounds or injuries suffered in the crash. An autopsy was scheduled for Monday.
Earlier Sunday, a man was killed in a shooting that left two others wounded in the Northwest Side Albany Park neighborhood early Sunday.
Jeremy Spivey, 23, and the two others were sitting inside a van in an alley near Sunnyside and Kimball about 2:30 a.m. when a male walked up and fired shots, authorities said.
Spivey, of the 4700 block of West Belmont, was shot multiple times and taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 4:03 a.m., authorities said.
A 17-year-old boy was shot in the right leg and taken to Masonic, where his condition was stabilized. A 26-year-old woman was shot in the right finger and was being treated at Swedish Covenant Hospital, police said.
Relatives of the 17-year-old, who live near the shooting, said they spent the day barbecuing and watching fireworks for the Fourth of July. A female relative said she had heard gunshots around their home between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., then again at 10 p.m.
She took her family inside just five minutes before the shooting. She and her children said they heard about seven gunshots but didn’t think anything of it until they heard ambulances pull up.
A police source said all the victims are documented gang members.
About an hour and a half earlier, a man was shot to death in the South Shore neighborhood.
The 26-year-old man was sitting in his car in the 7700 block of South South Shore Drive about 1 a.m. when someone walked up and fired shots into the car, police said.
He was taken to South Shore Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
Police said the shooting is possibly gang-related.
A 17-year-old boy was shot to death Friday afternoon in a Bronzeville neighborhood park named after slain King College Prep student Hadiya Pendleton.
The teen — identified by authorities as Vonzell Banks of the 4500 block of South Prairie — and a 19-year-old man were standing outside Hadiya Pendleton Park in the 4300 block of South King about 4:45 p.m., when a vehicle approached and someone inside opened fire, police said.
Banks, a Dunbar Vocational High School junior, was playing basketball with his older brother, Vinny, and some friends when he was shot, his aunt, LaShanda Childs, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
“He was a loving child, getting ready to be a senior at high school,” Childs said. “He was going to start a summer job on Monday. He was very excited about it.”
Like Pendleton — in whose honor the park was renamed just two months ago — Banks was shot in the back. He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:31 p.m., according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
The man was shot in the right foot and was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized.
Police said Banks and the 19-year-old were likely not the intended targets of the shooting.
Earlier Friday, a man was killed and a woman was wounded in a South Side Washington Heights neighborhood drive-by shooting on the South Side.
The two were walking in the alley in the 9100 block of South Ashland about 1:20 a.m. when someone in a passing white van opened fire, police said.
Grover Tate, 47, of the 1500 block of West 95th Street, was shot in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
The woman, 43, was shot in the abdomen and buttocks and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where her condition had stabilized, police said.
A 26-year-old man was killed in the same block he lived in just after midnight Friday in the South Side Back of the Yards neighborhood.
The man, identified as Jose Hernandez, was sitting on a porch at 12:05 a.m. in the 4800 block of South Justine when another male walked up and shot him in the back, authorities said.
He was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead less than an hour later, the medical examiner’s office said.
An officer at the scene said the shooting — the second on that block in about nine hours — may have stemmed from a conflict involving the La Raza street gang. Neighbors said they heard about four to six gunshots.
“We were all in the kitchen you know, having bonding, family time, and this happens,” said 15-year-old Jocelyn Avila, who lives on the block and also heard gunshots from the other shooting at 3 p.m. Thursday.
The weekend’s first homicide happened Thursday evening in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
About 6:25 p.m., Joseph Gutierrez was riding a bicycle in the 2700 block of South Karlov when a gunman ran up and shot him repeatedly in the upper body, authorities said.
Gutierrez, of the 6200 block of South Kenneth, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said. Police said the shooting may have been gang-related.
On Saturday night, a man was shot in Streeterville shortly after the Navy Pier fireworks show.
The 19-year-old man suffered a gunshot wound to the abdomen at 10:06 p.m. in the 200 block of East Ohio, according to police and fire officials. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in serious-to-critical condition, fire officials said.
A possible shooter was taken into custody and a weapon was recovered at the scene.
At least 41 others have been injured in shootings since 4:45 p.m. Thursday.
Chicago, Chicago, my kind of town.
This is, of course, white peoples fault.
If we didn’t allow blacks to have guns this wouldn’t happen.
There were laws made against them having guns in the south after the civil war ended, but white judges tossed them out and let them (legally) have them anyway.
Statistics don’t lie, black people should not be allowed to have guns, remove the gun crimes committed by them from our violent crime rate and we are more peaceful than most of Europe.
Count out the violent crimes committed by illegal aliens -mostly from countries south of our border- too and we are probably the safest and most crime free country in the world. Blacks and illegal aliens (I emphasize “illegal”) are what drives crime in the United States, it’s obvious in the news every day.
Guns don’t kill people. Niggers kill people.
And dats the truf.
Meanwhile in Cincinnati a young white man was almost beaten to death by a group of blacks. The video has been taken down but it was horrific . You could the see the blacks dancing and hear them laughing. When will whites learn? Never go anywhere near these Damn animals unless you are armed.
Here in the hedge fund ghetto, we didn’t have any nigger shootings, probably because none reside here, but a Goldman bankster, a JPMorgan bankster and a Citi bankster we all shit on by a giant turkey vulture before the fireworks show on Saturday, good little vulture even crapped on one their kids, so we had that going for us.
I wonder if the US Treasury is going to cut the families of the Chicago victims a $3.2 million check each like what happened in Charleston? Just wondering? John
It would be outstanding if .gov would expand EBT cards to allow purchase of ammo. YT would be smart to band together and do ammo drops from hired choppers over the hood in Chicago and many other cities to help the poor unfortunates along.
Those whacky Dindoos… they sure are nutty, I tell ya..
Meanwhile—Jesse Jackson’s PUSH coalition has announced that they will search Chicago for Confederate memorials and flags. Jackson asserts that they cause the chimps to be agitated and kill one another.
The Confederate flag did it. It forced the crazy assed craasz to put on they blackface and go to shitcago and kill niggaz. I know das right!
Social programs, government assistance and even education make no difference at all. These programs have never made a difference and never will. That’s because a knee-grow is still a knee-grow…
This story breaks my heart. These simians just don’t know how to shoot and they miss most of the time. It must be the mental distraction they suffer from the terrible legacy of slavery.
People see the headline “9 dead and 47 wounded” and feel bad for the wrong reasons. I feel no pity for the dind do nuffins and the more numerous dind see nuffins. This score is wrong. I feel bad that the score wasn’t 56 for 56 shot dead. This is piss poor teamwork.
But I think that we can turn this franchise around with some training in combat shooting. More sweat training, more blood on the streets of Niggerville. I believe I might be onto something here.
Every young gang member is a stellar student ready to earn his “A’s” and prepare for higher ed.
(sarc off)
Illinois has what is called the Chance Program for “inner city” minorities to attend colleges like Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL (from where all three of my sons graduated.)
Clowns show up, don’t pay a thing to the school, don’t go to class, use their Pell Grant $ to buy a car, import their gang-banger buddies from Chicago on Thursday or Friday for a weekend of mayhem and basically account for 99.999% of actual crime on and around the campus.
Few last more than a semester or two, but at least they “had a Chance.”
http://www.chance.niu.edu/chance/
(Note how race is not mentioned in the admission discussion, but then examine the photos….my tax dollars at work…)
It might help if violent offenders were given sentences that reflected the severity of their crimes, and were kept off the streets until they were old and frail. For 50 years, our justice system has been so irrational and unpredictable, that it functions like a lottery, jailing people for decades for non-violent or “victimless” so-called crimes, while releasing untold numbers of killers and other violent criminals to the streets. Murder hasn’t been taken seriously for decades- you might get the DP, or you might get life with parole, or you might walk free, odds being against the final solution being imposed and very much favoring a laughably light sentence. For some reason, scarcely ever are first- degree murder charges brought against the perpetrators of gang shootings.
One guy in Chicago had served so many 2-year sentences for fatal shootings, that one court employee remarked that he was doing life “on the installment plan”. The police usually apprehend shooters very quickly, because everyone in the neighborhood usually knows just who they are and what their motives were. When released from prison, they usually return to the very same neighborhood, and either kill someone, or are killed themselves.
Chicago (who I love) says “It might help if violent offenders were given sentences that reflected the severity of their crimes”.
It disagree. It might help if they drop their sorry asses through a frigging wood-chipper, and so spare the public the cost of maintaining for 50 years. Seriously, they are a blight, and no way should the public be paying a red cent for keeping them alive. They do nothing positive, or even neutral, for society. Their mere existence is a negative. Why should society put up with it?
The only problem with wood-chipping them is that occasionally you will woodchip an innocent. So, alas, I really cannot support it. So, off to the salt mines. Say building a road to nowhere in the middle of the Alaskan tundra or some such. They get all the caribou they can catch, and a shovel to make an igloo in the winter. No need for bars, cells, anything.
Llpoh, I agree, not the wood-chipping , but the rest is spot on. Prison life should be very close to living in hell, not a country club. We would save money but the privately contracted prison system that costs big bucks wants to keep it that way.
Maintain the perimeter and let the Chango have at it!