This past weekend, 71 people were shot, 10 fatally, in Chicago. It is a war zone. Ten minors were shot. Most of the others are also young.
The numbers surpassed those of the same weekend last year, when 43 people were shot, three of them fatally.
Last weekend, 64 people were shot across the city, 13 of them fatally. Six of those victims were teenagers and one teen was killed.
Murders are up 60%.
SOME LOCAL LEADERS BEG THE FEDS TO HELP
Local leaders in Chicago are asking for help from the Federal Government. They say the Mayor is “unable or unwilling to maintain law and order.”
“People are too afraid right now to ask the president for help because if it does work, they’re going to make the president look like a success. And it’s a political move,” said Alderman Anthony Napolitano.
“We are dealing with crime at biblical proportions right now in Chicago,” he added.
“We’re putting our men and women, our police officers out there, there is a justice movement going on right now where we had a statue in Grant Park — they tried to tear it down. We had 30 officers protecting against about 1,000 protesters. It looked like a scene out of 300,” Napolitano said. “We need help.”
The police union agrees.
“Mayor Lightfoot has proved to be a complete failure who is either unwilling or unable to maintain law and order here,” added the President of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police.
“I would be willing to sit down anytime and discuss ideas about how we can bring civility back to the streets of Chicago,” the letter states. “These politicians are failing the good men and women of this city and the police department.”
LIGHTFOOT WON’T ACCEPT HELP FROM A REPUBLICAN
President Trump recently sent a letter to Mayor Lori Lightfoot and offered help. She replied abruptly, declining any help.
Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany had a brief back-and-forth with Lightfoot on Twitter after Mrs. McEnany said she was “derelict” in not accepting help. Lightfoot went racist.
It’s a one-party state with far left Democrats in charge who are extremely soft on crime. If all goes according to the leftist plan and Biden gets in, the entire country will soon be Chicago. They will open the borders, flood the country with refugees, and take our stuff and our freedoms.
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Mayor Lightweight is not qualified to run Chicago. The only reason she was elected is because no one wants the job. The city is bankrupt fiscally and morally, it has been in decay for the past 2 decades. Years ago there were small parts that were considered “ghetto”, now 75% of the neighborhoods are “ghetto”. Downtown looks great but the rest of the city is putrid.
If you ask the residents especially the black and brown….they are ecstatic Trump is sending in agents.
Two? It has been going downhill since I have been alive, and that is over 60 years. The state is right behind it. It does not matter the party, if the politician is from Illinois, DO NOT TRUST THEM!. I am glad I am out of that state. I pity my relatives left behind.
it is time to recall the mayor and take her out of office!! the city council should be able to do that….but a majority of those may be right in the same mindset as the mayor so that would do no good. state AG should be able to do something in this situation but again, the AG may be onboard with the mayor….someone needs to do something, mayor is condoning all this violence and murders!!
It’s really hard for me to feel sorry for the mess in Chicago. The electorate there put Lousy Lightfoot into office, I’m tempted to say “They have made their bed, let them sleep in it!” That being said, it would bother me any if the US Marshals went in Chicago along with Homeland Security in unmarked vehicles and started rounding them up like they are doing in Portland and Seattle. Just don’t give the Blue politicians in Chicago any federal aid moneys.
ANYONE who reads that LAST STATEMENT, (& questions it), NEEDS to reevaluate their VALUES!!!
The DEMS have GONE ROGUE & ILLEGITIMATE. Their FALSE SYSTEM is nothing LESS than a COMMUNIST TAKE OVER…and nearly EVERY BLUE CITY & STATE agrees with Lightfoot et al, TAKING OVER!!….THEY’RE EITHER COMMUNISTS or UTTERLY CORRUPT!!!!
They are the ACTUAL “HATERS” that the “DIMWITZ” kids are learning from…PLUS Lightfoot IS ENCOURAGING the MAYHEM & SLAUGHTERING of youth…SHE’S doing NOTHING TO stop the killing, NOR CORRECTING THE MASSACRES!!!
FRANKLY I believe that the DEMS are WILLINGLY seeking to CREATE a WAR ZONE of our Country, & it NEEDS to be STOPPED before they WIN!!!!
As a suburbanite, I cannot imagine visiting the city, where I would not be protected. Lots of us did not want to leave the city decades ago, but we had no choice. The mayor has chosen leftist revolution over people, property and law. I’m surprised the Columbus statue was not destroyed. I wonder if she agreed to protect it, or if law enforcement acted alone.
If a judge rules that the feds cannot protect Portland, the cities will burn. That ruling is extremely important. It is not being covered. It is pivotal.
I see DHS is sending 150 to Chicago. DHS is of course not DOJ. I have been noting the absence of DOJ to assist, not acting is characteristic of Barr. There are federal marshalls in these cities, who may get involved, but the effort to protect the cities has not been initiated by Barr.