Incomplete list:
900 block of West 87th Street: A 56 years old man stabbed (by a knife not a gun, all you anti-gun freaks) in the gut back in June, has died from complications caused by the stabbing.
8600 block of South Ingleside Avenue: 22 years old man shot and killed as he sat on his porch. Police say he was shot by two men.
7400 block of North Ridge Boulevard: Two men shot. One man was gut shot and died. The other man wounded in the leg.
4300 block of West 25th Place: A 22 years old man shot and killed, and a 17 years old boy wounded. Reports say they were on a porch when they were shot by two men.
6900 block of South Justine Street: 15 years old girl shot and wounded.
7900 block of South Saginaw Avenue: 19 years old man shot and wounded. He says a robber demanded money from him, and when he tried to get away from the robber he was shot.
2300 block of West North Avenue: 58 years old man shot and wounded by people in a dark colored SUV.
Logan Square neighborhood: Two men shot and wounded as they walked. The shooter was in a car. The wounded men walked themselves to hospital.
7800 block of South Cregier Avenue: 27 years old man shot and wounded in the ear. He walked himself to the nearest police station.
Apparently violence in Chicago is as bad as a war zone, as the U.S. Department of Defense is sending doctors from the U.S. Navy to work in Cook County’s Stroger Hospital! The USN also operates the local Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center. USN surgeons reported that they’re seeing gunshot wounds in Chicago that are the same as wounds you’d get in a warzone. The USN also operates in Los Angeles, California.
The Chicago Police Department has agreed to pay $1.25-million USD to the family of a man the police shot and killed. The settlement was the result of a federal civil rights lawsuit. In 2012, the victim was shot in the back as he was running away from a car crash. Typically the cops said they shot him because he had a gun. Turned out the victim was holding a flashlight!
But another family has just filed a new lawsuit against the exalted Chicago cops. This time the victim was shot and killed by an off duty cop, as he waited for his girlfriend to come out of her apartment. The off duty cop, who was moonlighting as a security guard for the apartment complex, says he shot the man because he was urinating on his cop car. There is security camera video of the incident.
On top of the latest lawsuit, a former cop has warned the ‘documented gang members’ known as Fraternal Order of Police that the federal government is now investigating the Chicago cops for possibly being behind all those shootings “…specifically ones in which an offender’s gun was not recovered.” According to news reports the investigation is being conducted by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney General. The investigation was ordered after private security camera video revealed Chicago cops shooting to death victims as they were laying face down on the pavement! (it’s called summary execution, meaning the cop acts as jury, judge and executioner) In one case a man killed by cops was holding a cell phone, the cops claimed it was a gun in their official report!
However, the U.S. Department of Justice is refuting the former cop’s claim that the federal government is investigating the Chicago Police Department. In fact federal officials revealed they are partners in the death by cop shootings: “The Chicago Police Department is our front-line partner, along with federal law enforcement agencies, in our determined efforts to reduce violent crime in Chicago.”-joint statement by U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon and FBI agent Robert Holley
By the way an Elgin city, Illinois, cop was placed on paid vacation after posting on Facebook that basically the summary execution of certain people (black?) by cops “was doing society a favor”. I’ve known cops in California who had the same attitude.
It’s interesting that the police seem to know how most shootings went down, even though they weren’t present and most victims refuse to “cooperate”. And yet, few arrests (except in the case of stabbings, there’s almost always arrests).
The majority of victims are male. Police are now blaming gangs from other cities, but have made few arrests. That’s because police believe most of the victims are also gangbangers. Realize that police in metropolitan areas keep records of whose who in the local gangs, this is how they know if a victim is a “documented gang member”. This also means police probably know who the assailants are. So why no arrests?
Once again, majority of shooting victims were not armed, it’s as if the shooters are deliberately targeting unarmed people. It also questions the police claims that the victims are gang members. Wouldn’t they be armed?
New anti-gun laws would not stop the shootings, because most guns used in Chicago shootings are already illegal!
“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security….That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013, calls Chicagoland his homie town