Shootings Up 76 Percent in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago
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Shootings are up 76 percent over where they were this time last year in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.
NBC News reports not only the surge in shootings but also the fact that “nearly all the bloodshed concentrated in the city’s predominantly Black and brown communities on the South and West Sides.”
They note similar stories around the country.
For example, from January 2020 to May 2020 in Democrat-controlled Louisville, Kentucky, nearly “75 percent of homicide victims were black.”
And in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) New York City, every shooting victim in the month of July has been a minority.
On July 6, 2020, Breitbart News reported that 97 percent of the NYC’s June shooting victims were minorities.
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The Black Lives Matter Effect is Killing Black Children
The Black Lives Matter Effect is Killing Black Children
“Where is the outrage? Our babies are being shot.”
July 7, 2020
Daniel
Greenfield
Daniel Greenfield,
a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative
journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
Mekhi James, a 3-year-old boy,
cried, "It hurts", after he was shot in Chicago.
Then he died.
Sincere Gaston, a 1-year-old
boy, was also shot and killed in Chicago. A 3-year-old girl was shot in the
chest while playing in the
front yard with other children. She was among the four toddlers shot in Chicago
in two weeks. Older children are also being shot. An 8-year-old girl was grazed
in the head, and a 5-year-old boy in the buttocks.
Natalia Wallace, a 7-year-old
girl described as “quiet and sweet” was shot and killed on the
sidewalk.
“Where is the outrage? Our
babies are being shot. These are our babies," Chicago PD's Chief of Operations
Fred Waller, who is African-American, asked.
The question ought to be
directed to Black Lives Matter as the BLM Effect fuels shootings and deaths
around the country. And the most vulnerable of the BLM Effect’s victims are
black children.
Eight children under the age of
10 have been shot in Chicago in the past few weeks. The cause of these
shootings is an upsurge in crime from the Black Lives Matter riots that have
devastated the country.
The Black Lives Matter riots
are killing black people, and particularly black children, in two ways.
Chicago murders are up 83% in June, while arrests fell 55%, street stops
74%, and traffic stops 86%. If you want to see what defunding the police looks
like, just stop by Chicago and bring a bulletproof vest.
John Catanzara, the president
of the Fraternal Order of Police, blames a new Ferguson Effect in the George
Floyd era where officers, “pause and say: ‘I want to go home today safe. I want
to make sure I keep my job. And I want to make sure I don’t go to jail.'"
Mayor Lightfoot argues that
it’s due to the police being tied up by the Black Lives Matter protests.
And they’re both right. The BLM
Effect has a dual function.
The protests are tying up large
numbers of cops, leaving gang members free to fight their battles, and the
dismantling of proactive policing and the scapegoating of cops makes the police
less proactive.
Alderman Chris Taliaferro, the
African-American chair of the Chicago City Council Committee on Public Safety,
said, "Our police officers don’t want to be the next headline."
Even as Democrats around the
country endorsed Black Lives Matter and championed defunding the police,
Chicago’s black political leaders rushed 1,200 cops to the streets for the July
4th weekend.
African-American Police
Superintendent David Brown ordered sweeps of
street corners for gang members and pleaded with the courts to keep them in
jail for at least the weekend.
"Our endgame is
arrests," he said, vowing to break, "the pipeline for shootings and
murders in Chicago."
A white ACLU official warned
that would, “drive a wedge between the CPD and communities of color.”
While Democrats, their leftist
leaders, and the media insist that the real threat to black people comes from
police officers and white ‘Karens’ who try to defend themselves, the truth is
in the hospitals.
Not just black people, but
black children are being shot across America because of the anti-police riots.
In Washington D.C., a world
away from where Democrat and Republican politicos sell out children like him by
conspiring on “police reform” and “criminal justice reform”, Davon
McNeal, an 11-year-old boy, was shot and
killed while grabbing a phone charger and earbuds before heading to a July 4th
BBQ.
Mayor Muriel Bowser offered her
"thoughts and prayers". But the little boy shot at the Frederick
Douglass apartments didn't need thoughts and prayers recited on Twitter, he
needed the police.
The boy’s mother was a
community D.C. Violence Interrupter and his grandfather is a Guardian Angel. He was surrounded by alternatives to police, including a city
initiative that spent $10 million on
community activists that were supposed to somehow ‘interrupt’ violence, but
don’t stop bullets.
"We’re protesting for
months, for weeks, saying, ‘Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter.’ Black
lives matter it seems like, only when a police officer shoots a black
person," John Ayala, the boy's grandfather, said.
"What about all the
black-on-black crime that’s happening in the community?”
In St. Louis, a 4-year-old boy
was shot in the head over the
July 4th weekend. He was one of 4 children shot on
the Fourth of July in the city and one of over 60 children that
have been shot there this year.
St. Louis Children's Hospital's
ER has seen more children with gunshot wounds in May than any previous month in
its history.
An 8-year-old girl was shot
and wounded on July 4th in Cleveland. A 15-year-old boy was
among three people who were shot in Boston in 24 hours. In Delano, California,
an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old girl were shot and killed at a party. The
girls were Latino and their lives don’t matter at the moment.
There’s a 44% increase in
shootings and a 23% rise in murders in New York City. Call it the BLM Effect.
"More people not in
jail," NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan said, explaining the rising
violence. "Rikers Island in New York is empty. Between Covid, between bail
reform, the protests caused animosity towards the police, which took us out of
neighborhoods that needed us the most."
In Rutherfordton, North
Carolina, Aaliyah Norris, a 7-year-old girl, was shot and killed by
Shaquille Francis. Her 9-year-old older sister won't sleep and won't eat after
the murder.
Royta Giles Jr., an 8-year-old
boy, was shot and killed in a Birmingham mall.
Another girl was wounded. A 5-year-old boy was also shot and wounded in
Birmingham while riding in a car.
Royta will receive a tiny
fraction of the media attention and leftist outrage that Rayshard Brooks did.
When a movement cares more about a violent thug than a little boy, that sums
its moral compass.
A 6-year-old girl was shot and killed in Palm
Bay, Florida. Two children were shot in a drive-by attack
in Baton Rouge. A 5-year-old and a 12-year-old were shot during a gun battle in
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
“I didn’t even know that I got
shot until I started feeling the pain,” Chyesha Smith, the 12-year-old, said.
70 children were shot in
Philadelphia this year. A 43% rise. 96% of the child victims of
violence are black.
This is what Black Lives Matter
looks like in the real world.
In Minneapolis, where the city
council has voted to defund the police, 50 kids from a youth football team,
some as young as 5 years old, ran for cover as shots
were fired by rival thugs in a park. Elsewhere, a 7-year-old boy was shot in
the foot. 116 people were shot in June. That's a 400% increase.
Sasha Cotton, who heads the
city's office of violence prevention, blamed angst and trauma from Floyd's
death. Her office's plan to prevent the violence is to urge the victims not to
retaliate.
Coach Thompson, who is black,
said, "It was crazy to have 50 to 60 rounds fired and no police presence.”
But he’s considering supporting
the defunding of the police.
The BLM Effect is taking black
lives across America. In Milwaukee, shootings are up 95%, in Hartford,
they've risen 36%, and in New York City, shootings are up 142%. In
just one week, an extra 37 people were shot. That excess capacity can be
credited to Black Lives Matter and all of its supporters.
While Democrat leaders grappled
with taking down statues of the great explorer and possibly even renaming the
city, Columbus, Ohio is experiencing one of its deadliest
years.
Cincinnati is headed
toward its deadliest year in over
two generations. Murders are up 65%. The average murder victim is black. Only 4
were white.
“Each of those lives matter and
the majority of those who have lost their lives this year, last year and the
year before that are African Americans. It's unfortunate to say it is at the
hands of other African Americans," Christopher Smitherman, the black head
of Cincinnati’s public safety committee, said.
Smitherman is the former
president of Cincinnati’s NAACP.
Black Lives Matter falsely
pretends that black people are mostly endangered by police, when in reality, in
some of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the country, they’re protected by
police officers.
And those police officers are
increasingly black.
Black Lives Matter declared war
on the police on behalf of criminals. The death toll in black lives is
shocking. And the toll in the lives of black children is even more
heartrending. When the police leave, the criminals take over, and the hospitals
and morgues pile up with the black victims of gang violence.
That’s the BLM Effect.
Supporting Black Lives Matter
means not only supporting criminals over the police, it means enabling the mass
deaths of black people and black children that inevitably follow in the wake of
the riots.
If you support Black Lives
Matter, you’re killing black children.
CHICAGO: THE
FACE OF A NATION IN SHAMBLES
CHICAGO’S
BLACK GANG LAND…. Is what
happens when bankster Rahm Emanuel
and his corrupt Obama party turned the city under!
BLACKS
ARE THE MOST VIOLENT SUBCULTURE IN AMERICA... and they still blame whitey!
GHETTO BLACK
TERRORISM IN AMERICA…. BLAME WHITEY?
In 2016, 7881 blacks were murdered, 90.1% of them by other
blacks; 7100 blacks killed by other blacks. FBI crime facts show only 16
unarmed blacks were shot by police. CHRIS KEMBLE – AMERICAN THINKER