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At Least 35 Shot, Four Fatally, over Weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago

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AWR HAWKINS
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At least 35 people were shot, four fatally, over the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

On Sunday night ABC 7 reported 34 people had been shot, three fatally. The Chicago Sun-Times indicates those numbers had increased to show at least 35 shot, four fatally, by the time late Sunday and early Monday morning passed.

There were two fatalities on Saturday and a 31-year-old man was killed Sunday morning just before 3 a.m. while sitting “on a porch in the 6700 block of South Maplewood Avenue.”

The Sun-Times reports the fourth fatality of the weekend occurred Monday morning around 3 a.m., when a “22-year-old man was shot in the chest…in the 7700 block of South Ingleside Avenue.” He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.

ABC 7 reports that at least of those wounded over the weekend were between 14 and 17 years old.

Breitbart News reported 34 people were shot, nine fatally, last weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago, and 59 were shot, three fatally, the weekend before that.

Murders in Chicago were 139 percent higher in July 2020 than they were in July 2019.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

Nolte: Antifa/Black Lives Matter Move Terror Campaign to Residential Areas

PORTLAND, OREGON - JULY 28: People gather in protest in front of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in downtown Portland as the city experiences another night of unrest on July 28, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. For over 57 straight nights, protesters in downtown Portland have faced off in often …
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If you are paying attention to the ongoing Antifa/Black Lives Matter terror campaigns in Democrat-run cities, you might have noticed that these left-wing marauders have begun to move into residential areas.

To protect Joe Biden, who has refused to condemn nearly three months of left-wing terror campaigns, the corporate media are ignoring and/or downplaying the relentless rioting, looting, arson, and assaults in the Democrat-run cities of Portland and Seattle.

Just a few hours ago, the Democrat-run city of Chicago was added to this list due to five hours of highly-organized marauding along the Windy City’s legendary Magnificent Mile. As of this writing, the chaos is so bad, downtown has been closed, public transportation has been shut off, both bridges into downtown have been raised, freeway off-ramps have been closed.

Anyone familiar with Chicago traffic can only imagine the nightmare Monday morning commuters are facing as they try to get to work.

As bad as all of this is, thanks to the real journalists covering this left-wing terror campaign (like the indispensable Andy Ngo), and citizen journalists, I’ve noticed that more and more residential areas are now under attack.

Up till now, the terrorists — and for good reason — have mostly contained their rioting, arson, and assaults to downtown areas and business districts. This makes sense because these areas are usually closed down for the night, are empty of people, and serve as perfect political targets as they represent the capitalism these socialists despise.

In the past, while we have seen the terrorists move into neighborhoods, it has been in search of political targets like a city mayor or police chief … or a Tucker Carlson.

As of late, though, the terrorists’ tactics have shifted — not to political targets in residential areas, but to residents in residential areas…

Here are just a few troubling examples of what’s to come…

In the video below published on Sunday, you will see the Antifa/Black Lives Matter terrorists shine lights into a residential dwelling to catch people looking at them. They then threaten to burn the building down.

Here’s video of what happened when Antifa attempted to  stir unrest in Fort Collins, Colorado — apparently over the weekend. Three of these terrorists were booked on various charges:

Here’s what happened over the weekend in a residential area in Portland:

You can see here how the terrorists swarm to trespass on the property of peaceful homeowners:

More in Portland:

Here’s video of the terrorists terrorizing a woman protecting her home. Note how they also try to blind her with countless laser pointers:

A day or two later, after vandalizing her home with graffiti, Antifa returned to terrorize her some more:

Here are screenshots of the call to specifically target the suburbs:

Here’s weekend video of the terrorists deliberately disrupting sleeping Georgetown residents in Washington, DC.

So, yes, Democrats have lost total control of their cities and the mob is now coming for you…

This is not a drill. These terrorists mean business.

As of now, what we mostly witnessed is Democrat voters getting exactly what they voted for, but if these Marxist paramilitary terrorists are going to succeed at their socialist revolution, they have to come after the bourgeois middle class, people like us — they have to either convert us to their cause or terrorize us into not resisting.

Thank God for the Second Amendment.

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West Side Storm

If the state of things in one of its iconic neighborhoods is any indication, New York isn’t creating the conditions for recommitment to the city.
Nicole Gelinas
August 9, 2020 
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Covid-19

New York’s Upper West Side is one of the safest, wealthiest, and most stable neighborhoods in the city—but it’s not a gated community, and the challenges and problems of the broader metropolis seep in. Because of its street density, engaged and hyperlocal media, and politically active citizenry, this neighborhood of nearly 200,000 people amplifies what’s going on in the rest of New York—and right now, that amplification is a deafening alarm.

Last week, the Upper West Side suffered two random attacks in the space of 24 hours. First, last Wednesday night, a man doing his part to support the pandemic-era economy and urban street life—eating dinner outside with his wife at 75th Street and Columbus—was punched by a stranger. Then, Thursday afternoon, a woman exiting the 72nd Street subway station was stabbed, also by a stranger. In neither incident did a dispute trigger the attack. Both victims escaped serious injury.

The two assaults are not anecdotes. Crime, even in the safest city precincts, is unmistakably rising. Across the West Side’s two police precincts in 2019, 227 people suffered a felony assault—fewer than one per day. This year, assaults in the area are down only 13 percent, and robberies are flat—an astonishing increase, in effect, given relative to sparse foot traffic. In June, the tonnage of residential garbage collected on the Upper West Side was down nearly 12 percent compared with the previous year, according to Department of Sanitation data. Until mid-May, people were not even supposed to leave their homes except for essential purposes, leaving far fewer potential crime victims out and about. Just like on subways, then, the per-capita risk is up. Murders, too, are increasing, overall: from one, at this point last year, to eight this year.

Like much of the rest of the city, the Upper West Side is experiencing a lost equilibrium. Less foot traffic encourages crimes of opportunity, which, in turn, discourage foot traffic. It’s not just felony crimes that dampen normal activity, either. The city has taken over three Upper West Side hotels to house homeless men, many with serious mental illness as well as drug and alcohol addictions. In normal times, the argument that every neighborhood must shoulder its “fair share” of social services makes some sense—as long as the city delivers these social services through well-run supportive-housing facilities, with ample supervision of residents and security on nearby blocks. But warehousing troubled men in lonely hotel rooms, and then leaving them to their own devices all day, is not an optimal strategy.

That’s especially true when normal foot traffic is not sufficient to outweigh dysfunctional vagrancy. On Thursday afternoon, I walked the whole Upper West Side—on Broadway, from 60th Street to 111th Street, and back. This isn’t a healthy corridor right now. Retailers are shuttered or operating on reduced hours; many storefronts were empty even before the pandemic. People still gamely eat out, but they face repeated requests for money from aggressive passersby. I stopped and sat on a bench at the 72nd Street subway station, to check my email, and was accosted by a disturbed man raving about my cellphone. If it hadn’t been for three uniformed cops standing nearby—likely an after-effect of the stabbing in the same location four hours earlier—I would have moved along quickly rather than waving him off. As the New York Post reports, women are subject to catcalls from loitering men in the area.

How to restore an always-fragile equilibrium? A competent city government would realize that it isn’t wise to place thousands of men in hotel rooms until the pandemic ends, as Mayor Bill de Blasio has vowed to do—not just on the Upper West Side, but throughout the city. The city needs a long-term solution for chronic adult-male homelessness, including retrofitting traditional homeless shelters to deliver true social services, with social distancing. An eventual single room or supportive apartment should be a reward for meeting various treatment milestones, not an open-ended starting point. The hotel solution isn’t good for homeless men or their neighbors—only for politically connected hotel owners.

Policing, too, must play a role, with more officers on foot, not in cars. Police officers standing at train stations and walking up and down Broadway are a visible deterrent to crime—and faster responders when crime does occur.

As it happens, police quickly caught the man who punched the outdoor-dining restaurant patron, but the victim decided not to press charges. Police thus brought the suspect—last known address, a Queens homeless shelter—to a hospital as “an involuntary EDP [emotionally disturbed person],” the West Side Rag reports. The hospital should keep him until he is well enough to walk the streets without randomly punching people; if it doesn’t, then the victim, through his magnanimousness, has only done a disservice to his fellow city residents.

The Upper West Side is the nexus of an unfolding social experiment. Will this generation of wealthier New Yorkers—with options to go elsewhere—stay in the city and fight for their quality of life, as a previous generation did? Or will they give up and leave? Some residents with other options have already left. And many others have choices not yet exercised: the local median household income is $118,000, and 31 percent of households in this supposedly scruffy, “authentic” neighborhood make $200,000 annually or more.

Of course, it’s not all up to the well-off. The middle class, working class, and retirees in rent-regulated apartments or co-ops purchased decades ago can stay and fight, too—but they’ll have to do so with a significantly reduced tax base for public services like policing, garbage collection, and services for the mentally ill. For now, the experiment continues.

Nicole Gelinas is a City Journal contributing editor, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and the author of After the Fall: Saving Capitalism from Wall Street—and Washington.


Nolte: Magnificent Mile Riots, Looting Hit Democrat-Run Chicago

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - AUGUST 10: A jogger runs past a broken storefront window after parts of the city had widespread looting and vandalism, on August 10, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Police made several arrests during the night of unrest and recovered at least one firearm. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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JOHN NOLTE
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“Hundreds of people swept through the Magnificent Mile and other parts of downtown Chicago early Monday, smashing windows, looting stores,” reports the Chicago Tribune.

There was also gunfire and violence against police officers. As of this writing, downtown Chicago is all but closed to those trying to get to work on a Monday morning.

The details reveal just how organized this was….

The looting and rioting started just after midnight and lasted “nearly five hours.”  Get this…

“People darted through broken store windows and doors along Michigan Avenue carrying shopping bags full of merchandise,” the Tribune reports, adding, “Cars dropped off more people as the crowd grew. At least one U-Haul van was seen pulling up.”

A U-Haul.

People being dropped off like it was just another morning at Looting School.

People load merchandise into a car near a looted Best Buy store after parts of the city had widespread looting and vandalism, on August 10, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Police made several arrests during the night of unrest and recovered at least one firearm. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Hundreds of them. All at once.

This was not spontaneous.

What we appear to have in Chicago is one more act of organized, left-wing terrorism, similar to what we are seeing in other Democrat-run cities, most especially Portland.

ABC7 has videos of the looting and video of the sound of gunfire, as well as video of a foursome of looters dragging an ATM down Lake Street right, near the legendary Chicago Theater.

According to a police spokesman, “someone fired shots at responding officers and police returned fire.”

Both videos feature looters yelling things like “fuck the police.” According to the Tribune  “in at least two spots graffiti against the police was seen.”

So there appears to be a political motivation behind this.

To get a sense of just how bad things are, the Tribune further reports “People were seen running out of a PNC Bank, its windows smashed.” On top of that a Sally Beauty Supply was “cleaned out,” “Crowds repeatedly tried to bash in the windows of the Omega watch store,” and a “group of people went in and out through a broken window of the Louis Vuitton store.”

Hitting Chicago’s Magnificent Mile is no accident. It is the jewel of Downtown Chicago, one of the most famous shopping districts in the world. If retailers lose faith the police can protect them from criminal marauders and flee the area, it will serve as more than just a symbolic victory for the left-wing terrorists in Antifa and Black Lives Matter.

As of this writing, the after-effects of the night’s terrorism are now hitting law-abiding Chicagoans who are just trying to make it to work during the Monday morning rush hour. Train and bus service into downtown has been shut off. Both bridges that cross the Chicago River are raised. State police have blocked freeway exits into downtown.

As someone who is pretty familiar with Chicago (it’s my favorite city), and who has driven many times through the Windy City’s normal rush hour traffic, the chaos occurring right now, the godawful mess working people are stuck in is beyond my comprehension.

But “chaos” is, of course, a big part of the left’s goal. It’s not just the looting these domestic terrorists crave, it’s not just the goodies — the socialist revolution demands chaos, disruption, agony, despair, inconvenience.

Everyday Americans must be punished, must be made to suffer for our bourgeois sins — like just wanting to be left alone to enjoy the fruits of our hard work; just wanting to live a decent, quiet life…

For those wondering what Chicago’s Democrat  Mayor Lori Lightfoot focused on over the weekend as these terrorists were organizing, she was shaming young people — who are in no more danger from the coronavirus than they are from the flu — for going to the beach.

Police officers inspect a damaged Best Buy store after parts of the city had widespread looting and vandalism, on August 10, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. Police made several arrests during the night of unrest and recovered at least one firearm. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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Shootings in De Blasio’s NYC on Track to Surpass 2018, 2019 Combined

NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 03: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks to the media during a press conference at City Hall on January 3, 2020 in New York City. The NYPD will take actions to protect the city and residents against any possible retaliation after the deadly US …
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AWR HAWKINS
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Shootings in New York City at this point in 2020 are on track to surpass the number of shootings witnessed during this time frame in 2018 and 2019 combined.

The New York Post reports there have been 821 shootings so far this year, whereas there 466 shootings in 2019, at this point, and 449 shootings at this same time in 2018.

The total for 2018 and 2019 combined at this same point is 905, so there is a chance the 821 shootings thus far in 2020 could grow enough to overtake 2018 and 2019 totals before the end of the year.

Moreover, there were 1,099 shooting victims at this point in 2018 and 2019 combined. There are already 1,000 shooting victims in NYC in 2020 alone.

Breitbart News reported 16 shootings left 20 victims in NYC on Sunday, August 2, 2020, alone.

On August 6, 2020, Breitbart News reported June gun purchases in NYC were up 121 percent over where they were in June 2019.

The Post reported there were 52,252 background checks performed for people wanting to buy guns in New York in June. The great majority of those background checks–31,003–were for rifle purchases.

Purchasing a rifle involves less red tape inasmuch as it does not include the permitting process one must go through for a handgun.

Gun violence is commonplace in numerous Democrat-controlled cities around the country. For example, at least 35 were shot, 4 fatally, over the last weekend in Chicago, and one person was killed and as many as 20 others injured in a Sunday morning shooting in Washington, DC.

On August 6, 2020, CBS 3 reported that 100 children have already been shot in Philadelphia this year.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

 

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