Meanwhile, at the Chicago shooting range.....
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2016 May 31, 4:41pm 2,174 views 8 comments
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Strategist
2016 May 31, 4:56pm
So many people were shot there that Deputy Superintendent John Escalante promised Sunday to beef up patrols.
Why beef up patrols? Most who got shot were criminals anyway. Ironically, the killers are doing a much better job than the police of ridding our streets of filth.
As long as they kill each other they are heroes.
I think we all need to grow up and realize we have been going about this all wrong. I've seen this phenomenon my whole life. It started, probably around the late 1980s in the inner cities, and has never changed no matter what we do.
IT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE. EVER.
We need to make peace with that. Instead of judging, we should face up to the reality. Some people enjoy killing each other on holidays, when the weather is nice etc. It's just the way it is.
Around the major holidays, we should instead send rapid response medical vans and buses, ambulances, etc. etc. Armies of medics, healthcare workers, etc. Form public-private partnerships with funeral homes to deal with killing weekends like this. Probably have them stationed all summer so they can be on call for all the people as needed.
This is just the way it is. Stop judging. Stop trying to understand it. These people wait all year for the summer, the good weather, to enjoy the killing season. I personally like to go camping and fishing.
We have to keep up with the times. It's 2016 and for some people, the summer season is a time for killing. Stop judging.
Shaman
2016 Jun 1, 7:59am
Stop judging.
Support is a kind of judging, a judging that these people are worthy of continued life and ability to do what they do. If we truly do not judge then we abandon them to their shell shocked neighborhoods minus welfare minus police minus emergency services and see what happens naturally in their "culture." That's declining to judge. Helping them continue this perversion of a culture makes the judgment that it's worthy of survival.
Ceffer
2016 Jun 1, 1:02pm
Maybe offer a 10 percent bounty on each victim's welfare check amount for a year, and airdrop free ammo.
Strategist
2016 Jun 1, 2:54pm
Or, we can just let them die. That's one way to get rid of gangbangers that are useless eaters and thin the herd of this crap.
Ambulance drivers should be given guns, if only to put the scum out of their misery. See how nice I am. And to think Dan called me a Muslim.
Y
2016 Jun 1, 4:14pm
It's all part of the libby redefinition era.
Redefine everything. Words. Meanings. And now, Summer.
We have to keep up with the times. It's 2016 and for some people, the summer season is a time for killing. Stop judging.
Memorial Day weekend closes with 69 shot in Chicago, many of them on West Side
Just after midnight, in one of the last shootings of the Memorial Day weekend, two people pulled out guns and started firing in East Garfield Park.
The first call to police early Tuesday was for one person shot on Homan Avenue. Then a second victim. Then a third. Then someone walked into a hospital a few minutes later.
In all, 27 of the 69 people hit by gunfire over the weekend were shot in or near the Harrison District, one of the city's most violent and one of the most heavily patrolled by police.
So many people were shot there that Deputy Superintendent John Escalante promised Sunday to beef up patrols. Nine more people were shot there by early Tuesday.
The rest of the weekend shootings were scattered across Chicago. They happened as far north as West Rogers Park and northwest as Jefferson Park and as far south as the West Pullman neighborhood.
The violence centered on the West Side, though. Seven of the shooting incidents on the West Side had more than one victim.
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The breakdown from the weekend is: Three people killed and 12 people wounded Friday afternoon through early Saturday; one person killed and 24 people wounded Saturday evening through early Sunday; 13 people wounded Sunday afternoon through early Monday; and 16 people shot Monday into early Tuesday, two of them fatally.
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• Mark Lindsey, 25, shot while sitting in a parked car in front of his mother's house in the 3700 block of West 75th Place in the Ashburn neighborhood around 11:20 p.m. Friday.
• Garvin Whitmore, 27, shot in the head about 5:20 p.m. Saturday in the South Side's Fuller Park neighborhood. He was sitting in a car with his fiancee, Ashley Harrison, 26, who picked up a gun and fired warning shots in the air. She was charged with a felony.
• Damien Cionzynski, 25, was shot by one of two men with whom he was arguing inside a BP gas station at Narragansett and Montrose avenues around 5:15 a.m. Saturday. Police have issued arrest warrants for two men.
• James Taylor, 44, was shot in the 5100 block of South Calumet Avenue. Taylor, of the 6500 block of South Ellis Avenue, was pronounced dead at 11:20 p.m. Monday at the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. He died from multiple gunshot wounds, the office determined following an autopsy Tuesday. Police were called to the scene and found Taylor unresponsive on the street, near a vehicle, said Officer Thomas Sweeney, a police spokesman.
• Johan Jean, 39, was shot in the 6400 block of North Rockwell Street. Jean, of the 100 block of Ashland Avenue in Evanston, was pronounced dead at 11:44 p.m. at St. Francis Hospital, according to the medical examiner's office. He died from a gunshot wound to the neck, the office determined following an autopsy Tuesday. Jean was discovered unresponsive in a gangway, and police said he may have died in a domestic incident.
The tally doesn't count a woman run over on Lake Shore Drive early Sunday. Her boyfriend, who also was hit in traffic, told police they were fleeing a group of armed robbers, and detectives have located evidence of a group of men in the area.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-shootings-memorial-day-20160530-story.html