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Chicago Labor Day Weekend: At Least 57 Shot by Monday Morning

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AWR HAWKINS

6 Sep 2021245

1:44

At least 57 people were shot in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago Friday evening into Monday morning of Labor Day Weekend 2021.

CBS 2 reported  53 shot and wounded and four fatally shot by 5:58 a.m. Monday, September 6.

Breitbart News reported 24 people were shot, two of them fatally, in less than 24 hours spanning from Saturday night into Sunday morning. And prior to those 24 shooting victims, the Chicago Sun-Times had observed that 16 people were shot in Chicago between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon at 3:25 p.m.

Ex-Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley (L), and Mayor Lori Lightfoot leave the funeral service for Chicago police officer Ella French at the St. Rita of Cascia Shrine Chapel on August 19, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. 29-year-old Officer French was shot and killed while conducting a traffic stop, her patrol partner, 39-year-old Carlos Yanez, was also shot and remains hospitalized. (Kamil Krzaczynski/Getty)

So there were at least 40 shooting victims in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago by Sunday morning and that number grew to at least 57 shooting victims by Monday morning.

HeyJackass.com pointed out that 13 people have been shot and killed in Chicago during the first days of September. Another 82 people have been shot and wounded during the same time-frame.

Breitbart News observed at least 50 were shot in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago during the last the weekend of August.

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 Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

 

Chicago Father Shot to Death While Shielding Daughter from Bullets

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AWR HAWKINS

4 Sep 20210

1:33

A Chicago father was shot to death Wednesday while shielding his daughter from a gunman’s bullets.

The Daily Mail reports that the 33-year-old father, Travell Miller, was driving his seven-year-old daughter to school when bullets began to fly.

Miller was shot four times as he “put his arms around her and shielded her from the brazen attack.”

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Miller’s mother was on the phone with her son when the attack occurred, and she heard everything.

Miller’s mother said, “He was a single dad raising his baby girl, who he loved so much. Unfortunately, she witnessed his death, and being the great father that he was, he used his body as a shield to protect her from the attack.”

Breitbart News notes 13 other people were shot in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago on Wednesday as well.

In this March 24, 2019 photo, Chicago mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot listens to a question during a candidate forum sponsored by One Chicago For All Alliance at Daley College in Chicago. Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle are competing to make history by becoming the city’s first black, female mayor. On issues their positions are similar. But their resumes are not, and that may make all the difference when voters pick a new mayor on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Teresa Crawford)

HeyJackass.com points out August 2021 witnessed 84 people shot and killed in Chicago, with another 424 shot and wounded.

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 Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

13 Shot on Wednesday Alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago

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AWR HAWKINS

3 Sep 20210

1:50

Thirteen people were shot, three of them fatally, on Wednesday alone in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago.

Fox 32 reports the first shooting fatality on Wednesday was discovered around 5:15 a.m., when police found a man with gunshot wounds lying in the street “in the 4000 block of West Grenshaw Street.”

Around 7:30 p.m. a 29-year-old man was shot and killed while standing outside “in the 11000 block of South Indiana Avenue.” A vehicle was allegedly driven by the man and an occupant of the vehicle opened fire, killing him.

A 13-year-old boy was shot in the chest and killed about 8:30 p.m. The boy was inside an apartment when the shooting occurred. The apartment was located “in the 5200 block of West Byron Street.”

The Chicag0 Sun-Times notes the 13-year-old was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead.

HeyJackass.com points out August 2021 witnessed 84 people shot and killed in Chicago, with another 424 shot and wounded.

Breitbart News explains at least 12 people were shot Monday alone in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago, and at least 50 were shot over the weekend.

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 Instagram: @awr_hawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

 

Biden’s Economy: The Black-White Unemployment Gap Soared in August

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JOHN CARNEY

3 Sep 2021856

2:53

The black-white unemployment rate jumped higher in August, highlighting how the Biden administration’s policies have failed to arrest the unequal burden of inflation and the coronavirus resurgence.

Black unemployment jumped to 8.8 percent, up from 8.2 percent in August. The white unemployment rate went the other way: falling to 4.5 percent from 4.8 percent. As a result, black unemployment is almost twice the white rate.

White jobholders grew by 269,000 in August, an increase of 0.23 percent. Black jobholders rose by 135,000, an increase of 0.72 percent. The black participation rate rose in the month to 56.2 percent from 55.8 percent in July, a positive development, while the white participation rate was unchanged at 61.6 percent. That contributed to the growth of the race gap.

The widening racial gap was even larger for men. Unemployment among black men over 20 soared to 9.1 percent from 8.4 percent and employment grew by just 19,000, a 0.22 percent improvement. Unemployment among white men over 20 fell to 4.4 percent from 4.9 percent and employment grew by 201,000, a 0.45 percent improvement. As a result, the adult black male unemployment rate is now more than twice that of white men.

The racial gap among women also expanded. Black women over twenty saw their unemployment rate grow from 7.2 percent to 7.6 percent, while white women’s unemployment shrank to 4.2 percent from 4.6 percent.

During the presidency of Donald Trump, the black-white gap fell to record lows in both the summer of 2018 and the summer of 2019, although both lows were followed by a widening in the gap. This was particularly notable because it came in the context of a rapidly expanding economy, indicating that the benefits of the expansion were being more equitably distributed. Black unemployment, for example, hit a record low in August of 2019.

Earlier bouts of shrinking inequality had come in the context of an economic contraction, when the racial unemployment narrowed because rising white unemployment caught up with black unemployment a bit.

Consistent with the pre-Trump pattern, the gap plunged to its lowest in the mass layoffs of April 2020, when the pandemic forced tens of millions out of their jobs and shuttered many businesses.

Biden promised that his administration would focus on addressing racial equity and making the economy more inclusive but in the first seven months of his term there is little evidence of accomplishment.