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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Chicago records bloodiest Memorial Day weekend in 5 years: At least 50 shot, 9 dead
2022-06-01
[FoxNews] More than 50 people were shot in Chicago over Memorial Day weekend, including nine fatally, according to police.

Roughly half of the shootings took place on the city's West Side, while the downtown area saw four people shot, according to authorities. There were at least 23 people victims on the city's South Side.

By Monday morning, the number of victims surpassed the number of victims for all of 2021's Memorial Day shootings, when 37 were shot including three fatally, NBC Chicago reported. All in, 51 people were shot over the long holiday weekend.

It was the most bloody Memorial Day weekend for the city since 2017, when 45 people were wounded and seven killed, the Chicago Sun Times reported.

Chicago was braced for a violent weekend and had rolled out Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Police Superintendent David Brown's holiday safety plan, which included officers working 21-hour days and canceled days off to get more officers on the street.

Posted by:Skidmark

#13  Then there will be shootings at the funerals and the violence will echo out like waves in a pond from a thrown stone.
The only possible way to make things worse in Chicago would be to involve the UN or Palestinian Authority. I don’t think the shootings would go up but the UN would probably increase trafficking. The PA might start paying stipends to the families of drug dealers shot by other drug dealers. The city would go broke quickly.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-06-01 12:53  

#12  ^ More to the point, the GOPe in Illinois would go along for the ride anyway. That's how Illinois became a one-party state. Same with Cali.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-01 10:26  

#11  Understood, Darth. Unfortunately the voting in a lot of these neighborhoods is a selection between 'machine' candidates and any conservative need not apply as they'd somehow never get on the ballot (or get their votes counted). It's the 'Chicago Way'.

A guy I worked with (and fished with) for years lives in a north Austin neighborhood, and his area used to be fairly decent. No longer.

Recently helped him find some #4 and 00 for his Model 12 (as was almost impossible to find in Chicago area, gun/ammo control and all that).

He's waiting for his wife to retire and then they'll move on. Doesn't care about what the house sells for (or if at all - except for the taxes) at this point.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-06-01 10:04  

#10  @7

Considering they still vote for the same people that allow and help this shit fester, I don't have a lot of sympathy for them. At this point they chose their side and they chose poorly.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-06-01 09:29  

#9  Each Memorial Day Chi-town twerks,
Unaware of a peril which lurks...
'Tis the terrible gun
That would ruin their fun,
'Cept it doesn't, cuz gun control works!
Posted by: Alistaire Big Foot3977   2022-06-01 09:26  

#8  Yes, it's a surrender to give the bangas anything. Territory, money, drugs, guns. The idea that they will stay put and wipe themselves out is misguided.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-06-01 08:59  

#7  A lot of decent folks live within the 'gang areas', Darth. Impossible for some to leave as the property they bought in the 60's-80's doesn't sell for some reason, even with the barred windows and doors.

Mostly they live towards the back of their residences, avoiding the rooms facing the street.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-06-01 08:57  

#6  Put a wall around the gang areas, throw as much drugs, guns and ammo as they want over it and let nature take its course.
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-06-01 08:26  

#5  Pales compared to 2020 Memorial Day weekend (30k/64w) during the George Floyd 'Peaceful Protests®', also known as the 'Loot-N-Shoot Weekend'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2022-06-01 08:02  

#4  
Chicago is a top 5 US Gun Control city.
Yep!!!! it sure is working for them.

Only Police and Thugs have Guns and it take the police 5 to 20 mints to arrive.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-06-01 07:45  

#3  More than 150 are killed across America during Memorial Day weekend as gun violence soars days after Uvalde school massacre left 21 dead
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-06-01 07:41  

#2  ..the 'problem' appears to be those who jump the reservation and bring their pastimes to their neighbors.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-06-01 07:03  

#1  Aided by abortion, a falling birthrate and drug overdoses, the problem appears to be resolving itself. Stronger policing and law enforcement would probably be unwelcomed. Stay out of it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-06-01 01:13  

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