Every July 4th weekend police in Chicago brace for an uptick in violence – even more than is usual when typical weekends average about 40 shootings – and this holiday weekend was no different, easily registering as the deadliest and most violent this year given the total death count. New York City has also been witnessing a steady uptick in seemingly random shootings and violence, including brazen acts committed in broad daylight in heavily trafficked areas, such as the recent Times Square wounding of a US Marine.
On Monday the Chicago Sun-Times has tallied 92 people shot over the long July 4th weekend, with 16 killed. The Sun-Times database shows the numbers killed to be a weekend high for all of 2021 so far.
Among the 92 shooting incidents, 76 were considered serious enough to receive hospital treatment, including six children and teenagers, according to Chicago police.
It was a particularly devastating weekend in terms of horrific headlines involving child deaths and woundings – with the Sun-Times listing the following:
- In one incident, two people were killed and four were wounded, including a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy, in a shooting early Monday in Washington Park on the South Side.
- That happened around the same time that a 6-year-old girl and a woman were shot in West Pullman and about four hours after an 11-year-old boy and a man were shot in Brainerd on the South Side.
- Late Sunday afternoon, a 5-year-old girl was shot in a leg, also in West Pullman.
Like with other weekend spikes in violence, local media and even woefully understaffed police often struggle to gain an accurate tally of shooting incidents amid the rapidly incoming emergency notifications.
Fox News wrote earlier that “Reports on the total number of incidents ranged wildly from 37 to 88, but the fact remains that dozens of people were shot, with at least five children among the victims.”
The youngest victim in Chicago was a 6-year old girl who survived what likely was a random act targeting someone else in a group which had been standing on a sidewalk:
The youngest victim was a 6-year-old girl who was shot while standing in a group on a sidewalk at around 1 a.m. Monday, WGN 9 reported.
A gray SUV pulled up and someone opened fire on the group, hitting a 43-year-old woman twice in the back as well as the little girl. Both are expected to recover.
New York City also saw a noticeable spike in violence over the holiday weekend, with by Monday morning NYPD data showing 26 total shot since Friday midnight. Later in the day that total rose to at least 30 as more detailed reports came in on the prior two days.
And then there’s this surreal story which suggests increasingly lawless streets where criminals strike with impunity often in broad daylight and in crowded places:
A 23-year old woman was slashed in the chest and hand in Times Square early Friday morning when a stranger lashed out after she ignored his catcalls, police said.
The woman, whose name was not released, was visiting Manhattan from Michigan and leaving ‘Restaurant Row’ in Midtown, around West 46th Street and Eighth Avenue, around 4.30am with a friend when the man began shouting crude remarks, according to the New York Daily News.
Her friend told the stranger to leave her alone, but he grew enraged and followed them before approaching the woman from behind a slicing her across the chest and hand with an unknown sharp object, police said.
Police were not able to apprehend the man described in public alerts as a “dark-skinned man in black clothing” after he fled the scene. Surveillance footage was subsequently released as NYPD continue seeking the public’s help.
Police appear to have few answers or done little in terms of practical solutions or prevention…
All the latest incidents which at times sent tourists running for their lives in central places like Times Square “mark the latest in a bloody summer as violent crime continues to spike in the Big Apple, jumping by a quarter over the past year, according to police data,” The Daily Mail wrote of recent incidents. “Shootings in New York City have surged by 43 percent in the past year, while murders are up 12 percent.”
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And just imagine, this is the outcomes for these violent sub-animal blacks when they are the beneficiaries of affirmative action jobs, set-asides and quotas in gov’t jobs, and ALL KINDS of freebies in taxpayer-paid welfare entitlements. What do you think would happen with them if they DIDN’T have the aforementioned gibs? Chicongo would be sub-Saharan in two shakes of a coon’s tail.
John Derbyshire’s “The Rules” should be ingrained second nature to any normal White person.
Is that John Derbyshire’s “The Talk: Nonblack Version”?
Had to do some searching…
taki’s the talk.
A 6 yo girl was shot while standing on the street with a group of people @ 0100. What is wrong with this picture?
There are things about children in the inner city it is best not to notice.
The first thought that went through my mind was she was being pimped out by a concerned family member and that is a disgusting thought.
Disgusting, but it is a lot more common than I realized. Last spring I met a guy named Jeremiah who helped me build some rabbit cages for a short time. Then he got a real job.
He’d been raised by grandparents after being found naked under a street lamp by a policeman at age 4.
His parents had sold him for sex and when the police questioned him, he explained he was under the street light because that was where he was supposed to get picked up by his parents. It wasn’t the first time.
His parents were addicts and sold him for drug money.
He was 30ish, so that would have been around 1995.
I would fly home on Fridays’ taking a 6am flight from Midway. After my 2nd or 3rd trip through the southside at ~4:15am, I stopped. The people on the sidewalks looked strung out, cars did not stop for red lights; I realized I was placing myself in a bad situation. I can’t understand anyone visiting NYC and walking out of a bar / restaurant at 430am.
It’s like driving through Memphrica. I try to limit my trips to 0800 – 1200 while the animals are still sleeping from their night of prowling and looking for victims.
Glad I was able to visit the Big Apple when it was relatively safe to walk back to your hotel in Manhattan @ 0400.
If there were any authentic and legitimate concern for the economic underclass of Blacks in America by the media complex, this ongoing daily violence would be at the very top of the news cycle.
And yet it’s not.
The collateral damage alone to the majority of that demographic who are peaceful and law abiding is incalculable and any human being with an ounce of compassion would be horrified.
If one were to have the intellectual capacity to see this contradiction, all politics aside, it would be obvious where systemic racism actually exists.
The in the real world where people live, the rest of us get along just fine.
No one wants to hear that. They would rather blame someone. It expunges their poor record, in their mind.
Mayor Beetlejuice is doing a heck of a job!
(Auntie was rather hoping to see the demographic analysis of the Chicongo murder and mayhem. Probably the fault of all those angry and violent Mormons.)
Auntie – Here is a dashboard I have been watching since ’18. Lots of data on shootings in Chicongo
https://heyjackass.com/
The statistics jackpot for Chicongo murder and mayhem! Excellent. Thanks, TNP.
Amazingly, the bug-eyed niggah mayor of Shitcago says ““We are seeing a downward trajectory, where other cities are continuing to see a climb,”
With the George fiasco, without another equally riot provoking occurrence, the crime stats for June 2021 could only go down. She’s spinning.
Am thinking the bug eyes are part of the disguise to hide the fact she is a Conehead.
What is going to stop these white people shooting up each other incessantly?
What?
Oh, never mind….
The article calls it a long weekend. Next year will be even longer because it’s a true three day weekend (Fourth is on Monday). Whoo hoo! Maybe they can break 100. /sarc.
Beetlejuice is spinning the stats around June. Last year the city was rioting because of George. Bridges were raised and curfews were in place. Of course, crime should have decreased in June over last year. What a sad unfunny joke.
The three day weekend isn’t over but Chicago is well over the 100 shot mark with a few hours to go. Very exciting!
Statistical, in 2021, the holiday weekend is Saturday and Sunday. Next year, the three day will be Sat-Mon.
No racial demographics?
Don’t Chicago and NYC have some of the toughest gun laws in the country?
How can this be true?
What is a 6 year old girl doing standing with a group on a sidewalk at 1:00 A.M.? And what about the broad getting slashed at 4:30 A.M.? Don’t these people sleep?
The solutions are obvious, but as a straight white male over the age of 55 I’m not allowed to voice an opinion.
How can we bring this spicy diverse multicultural vibrancy to Marthas Vineyard, The Hamptons, Alexandria and Park Slope ?
Yes! A most capital idea.
Bus Urban Youff into those locales mentioned for: free Juneteenth Picnics; St. George Floyd memorials with free food and giveaways; free Hip Hop concerts….
HUD has been wanting to put more section 8 housing into the suburbs for a couple of decades, but I have never heard any plans to export the undesirables into the playgrounds of the rich and powerful, only into upper middle class deplorable neighborhoods.
It’s the people and the culture of the people living there. I try not to be a racist but there are certain things that these places have in common. They are run by Democrats also.
And have been run by dems for 40 or more years. “Systemic racism” always is more prevalent in these democrat run strongholds.