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2020-06-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-
18 murders in 24 hours: Inside Chicago’s deadliest day in 60 years
Things will get much better after they've defunded the police.
[NYPOST] Eighteen people were killed in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
in a 24-hour span last month — the deadliest day in the Windy City in roughly six decades, according to a report.

The slayings — including a high school student and a college freshman who aspired to become a correctional officer — occurred on May 31 as the city grappled with ongoing civil unrest in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis police custody, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

The grim tally made May 31 the single most violent day Chicago has endured in roughly 60 years, according to data provided to the newspaper by the University of Chicago Crime Lab.

"We’ve never seen anything like it, at all," the crime lab’s senior research director, Max Kapustin, told the newspaper. "I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before."

Data from the lab does not pre-date 1961, but the next-highest single-day murder total in Chicago was on Aug. 4, 1991, when 13 Chicagoans died in homicides, according to the report.

When the entire weekend is taken into context, 25 people were killed citywide from late May 29 through May 31, while another 85 people were hurt by gunfire, the Sun-Times reports, making it the most violent weekend in modern Chicago history.

Posted by Fred 2020-06-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ]  Top

#1 These black Lives don't matter
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-09 05:09||   2020-06-09 05:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Tens of thousands of years of uninterrupted tribal slaughter, human subjugation and mayhem are of no relevance. Colonization, western education, religion, cultural/tribal oppression, and later the dreaded social apartheid have led to our current troubles.

But you wouldn't understand.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-09 06:02||   2020-06-09 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Got to remember that the White Europeans didn't practice slave raiding that the Muslims had done for hundreds of years in sub-Sahara Africa. It was other black tribes raiding their neighbors that brought the slave to coastal markets to trade for European goods. It's a long history of blacks literally selling out other blacks to get what they want.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-09 07:30||   2020-06-09 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Procopius2k, you're complicating the left-wing narrative. Betcha, ya didn't know the troubling fact that conservative Republicans are responsible for slavery. History is so complicated. ;-)
Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-09 10:36||   2020-06-09 10:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I must recommend that #3 and #4 both join me in 'takkng a knee.'
Posted by Besoeker 2020-06-09 10:42||   2020-06-09 10:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Hope the Minneapolis city council is paying attention. But I doubt it.
Posted by Tom 2020-06-09 13:32||   2020-06-09 13:32|| Front Page Top

#7 My grandparents on both sides didn't get to the US until 1919 or later. And they sure as hell did not benefit in any way from slavery.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-06-09 16:46||   2020-06-09 16:46|| Front Page Top

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