Monday, July 19, 2021

BLACK LIVES MURDER - 56 Shot, 11 Killed, During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

 

Oakland Chinatown suffers 2 robberies in 2 days, bystander who intervenes is pistol-whipped

A street in Oakland, Calif.’s Chinatown saw two robberies in two consecutive days last week, stoking fears in a community that has suffered anti-Asian attacks for months.

July 15: The first incident, on the 200 block of 9th Street, occurred at 3:15 p.m. on July 15. Two male suspects targeted an Asian man in his 50s who was walking with a cane.

  • The victim was standing on the roadside when the suspects approached him. One carried a black handgun with an extended magazine, Oakland police said.

  • The suspects took the man’s belongings by force. The armed individual pistol-whipped the victim.

  • A witness who tried to intervene was also pistol-whipped. After the attack, the suspects fled in a getaway vehicle with a third individual and headed eastbound on 9th Street.

  • The victims described the suspects as males in their 20s. The armed suspect stands between 5 feet and 10 inches and 6 feet, weighs between 180 and 200 pounds, and wore a black hoodie, red shirt, black pants and black shoes.

  • The second suspect is reported to be of the same height, weighs between 160 and 180 pounds, and wore a white hoodie, white pants and black shoes. No information has been released about the individual in the getaway vehicle.





July 16: The second robbery occurred just 30 feet away from the first incident before noon on July 16. This time, three suspects targeted a Chinese mother and daughter.

  • Aiwon Woo, in her 80s, told KPIX 5 that the robbers hit her and her daughter in the head. The suspects took their purses when they fell on the ground.

  • The trio reportedly jumped out of a four-door Lexus sedan that had no license plate. However, the description of the suspects, as well as a fourth individual in the getaway vehicle, matched those of a crew involved in other robberies reported in North Oakland and Emeryville that same Friday, KPIX 5 noted.

56 Shot, 11 Killed, During Weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

Mayor Lori Lightfoot emphasizes the importance of wearing a mask as she provides an update about the COVID-19 vaccinations at Norwegian American Hospital in Chicago on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. (Youngrae Kim/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool)
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Fifty-six people were shot, 11 of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

Breitbart News reported at least 25 people were shot Friday into Saturday night alone, and three of those shooting victims succumbed to their wounds.

On Monday morning ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times noted the number of shooting victims had risen to 56, with 11 dead.

Six people were shot in one incident late Saturday “in the 5000-block of West Ohio Street.” The individuals were standing outside a location where a party had been held when someone inside an SUV opened fire on them. One of the wounded was a 12-year-old girl.

Another one of the wounded was a 15-year-old girl.

Hours later, an eight-year-old boy was shot while riding in a vehicle with a 28-year-old male “in the 2000-block of West 83rd Street.” Both the boy and the driver were shot, but neither received life-threatening injuries.

The violence of the weekend in a continuation of the death and mayhem plaguing Democrat-controlled Chicago this year.

For example, 29 people were shot Wednesday alone, two of them fatally, and over 40 people were shot, 11 of them fatally, the weekend of July 9-11, 2021.

Nearly 100 people were shot over the long Fourth of July weekend, July 2-July 5, 2021, and 17 of those shooting victims died from their wounds.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkinsa 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.

 

Exclusive: Wealthy Suburb Wanting ‘Divorce’ from Crime-Ridden Atlanta Will Get Senate Hearing

A police car is vandalized during rioting and protests in Atlanta on May 29, 2020. - The death of George Floyd on May 25 while under police custody has sparked violent demonstrations across the US. (Photo by John Amis / AFP) (Photo by JOHN AMIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Georgia Senate plans to grant the Buckhead City proposal a hearing during its upcoming special session, a sign that the push for the wealthy district to deannex from Atlanta is continuing its momentum.

Bill sponsor Sen. Brandon Beach (R-Alpharetta), who has served in the state legislature’s upper chamber for ten years, told Breitbart News he has “never seen” Buckhead cityhood gain so much traction before.

The deannexation idea is not new, having been floated by local officials and residents on and off again for at least a decade. However, the passage of a pair of introductory cityhood bills in the Georgia General Assembly this past spring has given the effort newfound validation. Beach said surging crime numbers are driving the support for it.

“I’ve got Senate leadership behind it, and I’ve got a lot of really high-powered folks that are interested in making sure we get this thing moving forward,” Beach said.

Sen. Lee Anderson (R-Grovetown), chairman of the State and Local Government Operations Committee, confirmed to Breitbart News he plans to schedule a committee hearing for the legislation next time the Senate convenes, which is expected to be in late fall for a special session for redistricting.

The goal of the organization leading the cityhood effort, the Buckhead City Committee, is to earn a spot on next year’s ballot so that Buckhead’s roughly 90,000 residents can formally vote on it.

Buckhead City Committee spawned from residents’ frustrations over crime rates in the area and has evolved in recent months into a serious effort that has backing from many Republican state lawmakers, including Beach and Anderson, and, according to committee CEO Bill White, substantial fundraising abilities.

“The money is a leading indicator in my book,” White told Breitbart News.

He detailed the price tags of several upcoming events designed to fundraise for Buckhead City. One gentleman hosting a local event is anticipating ten attendees at $25,000 per head, while another is hosting a dinner at his home for four couples at a similar cost. The committee in September will have a 75-person event at Bones, a fancy local steakhouse, and White said that event has already raised $75,000. A committee board member hosting an event in October expects that one to generate half a million dollars.

“I think by October we’ll have another million dollars on the books. That’s what our plan is,” White said.

The committee head moved to the affluent district with his husband a few years ago from New York, where he had been CEO of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum for about 20 years. He said he has been disturbed by the “brazenness” of the criminal behavior as of late, pointing to a high murder rate, home invasions while residents are home, and a recent police warning of “bump and robs.”

“Our [agenda], which is irrespective of politics, is just taking control back of our city,” White said in June.

Buckhead has often been ranked one of the wealthiest communities in the south and is home to an abundance of expensive retail, shiny new office buildings, and upscale neighborhoods. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis assessed that a hypothetical Buckhead City would be 74 percent white and have an average median income of around $140,000, and that the city would take with it about 40 percent of Atlanta’s entire value.

Beach warned, “The city of Atlanta’s going to fight this. They’re going to fight it tooth and nail because this is a big portion of their tax collection, and the people have always been okay with that as long as they felt like they were getting a return on their investment, but when you’re not getting public safety, and you’ve got potholes and your trash isn’t being picked up and you’re not getting any services, people say, ‘Hey we want to take control and control our own destiny,’ if you will.”

Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D), who is opposed to Buckhead’s deannexation, restated Friday at a press conference about anti-violence initiatives that the “current wave of violent crime” in her city is a “COVID crime wave.” She reasserted that Georgia reopening earlier than other states last year caused more people to flock to Georgia, which she claimed correlated to the uptick in crime.

Bottoms made similar comments in April at the Buckhead Rotary Club as she addressed deannexation, saying, “In creating a new city, you’re not building a wall around the city.” She contended, “It doesn’t address crime,” and added that the way to correct the “COVID crime wave” is to “continue to work together as we have done for decades, as a city, as one city.”

White, however, argued a lack of proper police resources was the source of the crime spike. He said there is “no leadership here in Atlanta” and called Bottoms the “worst mayor in history.”

He compared Buckhead’s deannexation to a divorce, saying, “At a certain point you realize you have — literally they call it ‘irreconcilable differences’ — and the only way to civilly handle that is to file for divorce in a marriage.”

Write to Ashley Oliver at aoliver@breitbart.com.


Suspect Wanted in Shooting Arrested After Commenting on Police Facebook Post

Lorraine Graves
Tulsa Police Dept./Facebook
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An Oklahoma woman is in jail after commenting on a police department’s Facebook page about warrants regarding her arrest.

The Tulsa Police Department (TPD) makes a weekly Facebook post about its “Most Wanted” fugitives, KFOR reported Friday.

Authorities wrote Wednesday that Lorraine Graves was wanted in connection with the murder of Eric Graves, who was shot and killed at the St. Thomas Square Apartments this year.

“Detectives arrested Jayden Hopson and Gabriel Hopson for the murder, but they were still searching for Lorraine Graves, who was charged with accessory to murder,” the outlet said.

Once the Facebook post was shared, Graves commented, “What’s ,where’s the reward money at.”

“On 7/15/21 around 4:30 p.m., detectives with our Fugitive Warrants unit arrested Graves in north Tulsa near 36th St. N. and Garrison Ave. Graves is charged with Accessory to Murder. Her bond is set at $500,000,” the department said in a post on Friday.

The post featured photos of Graves and a screenshot of her comment:

The department also emphasized, “This is an arrest, not a conviction.”

Police noted in the initial post about Graves that detectives said she was “involved in the city’s 10th homicide of 2021 where Eric Graves was shot and killed at the St. Thomas Square Apartments” and asked citizens with information about her to contact the Tulsa Crime Stoppers:

According to KBTX, Graves remains in the Tulsa County Jail and if she is convicted, may face a sentence of up to 45 years in prison.

Meanwhile, Fox 23 reported in June Tulsa Police were investigating a spike in shooting calls that occurred within a short time span.

However, “When it comes to gun crimes, not just homicides, we have a 97 percent solve rate on things like this,” TPD Officer Danny Bean said at the time.

“If you’re going to go out there and commit a crime with a gun in Tulsa where you shoot someone, there is only a small three percent chance we will not catch you,” he added.


29 Shot Wednesday Alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

Lori Lightfoot speaks at her election night party Tuesday, April 2, 2019, in Chicago. Lori Lightfoot elected Chicago mayor, making her the first African-American woman to lead the city. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Twenty-nine people were shot, two fatally, Wednesday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports the first of the two fatalities occurred at 6:40 p.m., when a 24-year-old was shot in the head. He was sitting in a vehicle “in the 1600 block of South Christiana Avenue” when he was shot. He died at the scene.

Less than an hour later, at 7:20 p.m., a 38-year-old woman was shot and killed while standing “in front of a home in the 200 block of South Kilpatrick Avenue.” A vehicle pulled up near the woman and a gunman exited the vehicle and opened fire, killing her.

There were two shootings that left behind multiple wounded victims on Wednesday as well.

The first occurred early Wednesday morning when a gunman opened fire on five people who were standing “in the 4600 block of West Monroe Street just after midnight.” A man and four women were injured in the incident.

NBC 5 notes that the second such shooting occurred at 12:09 p.m. when three assailants opened fire on people standing on “a sidewalk near the intersection of 79th Street and Justine Street.”

Five  people were wounded in the attack, two of them critically.

The violent Wednesday in Chicago comes just days after a weekend over which 40 people were shot, 11 of them fatally.

The Chicago Tribune points out some 364 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2021, through July 7, 2021.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkinsa 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.

 


Atlanta police arrest 3 suspected of homophobic abuse of child in viral video

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Authorities in Atlanta credit the public for reporting the incident, leading to arrests

On Saturday, three people were arrested in connection with a viral video that captured a child being hit and verbally taunted over his sexuality, according to WSB-TV. The video was posted online a month ago.

The Atlanta Police Department has now arrested three suspects in relation to the video: Brittney Monique Mills, 35, Lorkeyla Jamia Spencer, 19, and Jordan Jarrode Richards-Nwankwo, 18. All three have been charged with cruelty to a child and are being detained in Fulton County Jail.

Richards-Nwankwo has received an additional charge of family violence battery. The connection between the child and the suspect has not been disclosed.

Brittney Monique Mills (left), Jordan Jarrode Richards-Nwankwo (middle) and Lorkeyla Jamia Spencer (right) (Atlanta Police Department)
Brittney Monique Mills (left), Jordan Jarrode Richards-Nwankwo (middle) and Lorkeyla Jamia Spencer (right) (Atlanta Police Department)

According to Crime Online, last month an Instagram Live post was circulated of a 12-year-old boy being ridiculed by older people for being gay. Video shows that the word “gay” was shaved into the side of his head. It is reported that he was also smacked on his head during the video.

An older man was heard in the video saying, “You still doing gay s—. You think I cut this in your head for no reason?”

WAGA-TV reports that police were notified of the video on June 17 by people who saw the viral post. The child and parties involved were located by investigators within 24 hours and the child, who has yet to be identified, was placed into protective custody with the Georgia Division of Family & Children Services.

WSB-TV reports that the local Special Victims Unit also got involved in the effort to locate and detain the suspects.

Once the three arrests where made, Atlanta Police Sgt. John Chafee gave credit to the people who brought the video to the department’s attention. “We’re very pleased with these arrests but we are pleased with feedback that we got from members of the community assisting in this and how quickly they were able to jump on it,” Chafee said to WAGA-TV.

Chafee went on to say how disturbing it was to review the video as the investigation was launched.

“This was a difficult video to watch. When you see someone, you know, I have a child, and when you see a young person being abused like this, I mean this is just so unnecessary,” he said. “It was difficult to watch. And I think with a lot of the investigators it was the same way.”

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