82 Shot, 14 Fatally - One Weekend

7th July 2014

Bracca, bringing security to a free country, Mandela-stylie!

For 10 minutes, it seemed like the shooting was everywhere in the South Chicago neighborhood.

It started when someone shot and wounded a couple, then two people fired at the shooter, then there was a chase and shots exchanged and a man sitting on a porch was hit. Responding officers kept cutting each other off on their radios as they reported other gunfire in the area late Sunday night and early Monday morning.

Then the heavy equipment rolled in: A helicopter and SUVs packed with lockers of rifles. SWAT teams in green coveralls patrolled the streets with uniformed officers.

It was just one of dozens of shooting scenes across Chicago over the long Fourth of July weekend. In all, at least 82 people were shot, 14 of them fatally, since Thursday afternoon when two woman were shot as they sat outside a two-flat within a block of Garfield Park.

Five of the people were shot by police over 36 hours on Friday and Saturday, including two boys 14 and 16 who were killed when they allegedly refused to drop their guns.

Many of the long weekend's shootings were on the South Side, clustered in the Englewood, Roseland, Gresham and West Pullman neighborhoods that rank among the most violent in the city.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-fourth-of-july-toll-82-shot-14-of-them-fatally-in-chicago-20140707,0,5439185.story

seems a .......................uhmmmm...lively neighbourhood

ummm...dont this belong somewhere else????

like errrrr "General News: U.S. and Canada"????

victorisnotamused wrote:seems a .......................uhmmmm...lively neighbourhood

A deadly neighbourhood, surely?

victorisnotamused wrote:like errrrr "General News: U.S. and Canada"????

10 points to Victor.

Keep tally yourselves on how many points you can achieve guessing which section Andy's news Articles Should have been posted in        

A fun game for the whole family  ::D:: ::D:: ::D:: ::D:: 

Just shows how stupid it is that the NRA and the Republican Party hold so much power and stop the laws that Obama and the Democrats want to pass to do something about gun laws.

veya_victaous wrote:

victorisnotamused wrote:like errrrr "General News: U.S. and Canada"????

10 points to Victor.

Keep tally yourselves on how many points you can achieve guessing which section Andy's news Articles Should have been posted in        

A fun game for the whole family  ::D:: ::D:: ::D:: ::D:: 

Oh God, don't encourage BA! He's annoying enough as it is.

The guy gesturing gangs signs was killed by police...it doesn't say he was armed, I think shooting him dead was very extreme...


I'm just wondering why so many armed lunatics chose to cause such mass unwarranted killing and chaos in such a short space of time?

Maybe to ruin the July 4th celebrations?

And a 14 year old with a gun...incredible , a real shame he chose that lifestyle and has obviously been influenced by this gang culture nonsense ...

When I read things like this , it really makes me realise how lucky I am to live here.

Joy Division wrote:The guy gesturing gangs signs was killed by police...it doesn't say he was armed, I think shooting him dead was very extreme...


I'm just wondering why so many  armed lunatics chose to cause such mass unwarranted killing and chaos in such a short space of time?

Maybe to ruin the July 4th celebrations?

And a 14 year old with a gun...incredible , a real shame he chose that lifestyle and has obviously been influenced by this gang culture nonsense ...

When I read things like this , it really makes me realise how lucky I am to live here.

Is Scotland still mainly a white area JD?

BigAndy9 wrote:

Joy Division wrote:The guy gesturing gangs signs was killed by police...it doesn't say he was armed, I think shooting him dead was very extreme...


I'm just wondering why so many  armed lunatics chose to cause such mass unwarranted killing and chaos in such a short space of time?

Maybe to ruin the July 4th celebrations?

And a 14 year old with a gun...incredible , a real shame he chose that lifestyle and has obviously been influenced by this gang culture nonsense ...

When I read things like this , it really makes me realise how lucky I am to live here.

Is Scotland still mainly a white area JD?

White powder around JDs

Nems wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:




Is Scotland still mainly a white area JD?

White powder around JDs

        

BigAndy9 wrote:

Joy Division wrote:The guy gesturing gangs signs was killed by police...it doesn't say he was armed, I think shooting him dead was very extreme...


I'm just wondering why so many  armed lunatics chose to cause such mass unwarranted killing and chaos in such a short space of time?

Maybe to ruin the July 4th celebrations?

And a 14 year old with a gun...incredible , a real shame he chose that lifestyle and has obviously been influenced by this gang culture nonsense ...

When I read things like this , it really makes me realise how lucky I am to live here.

Is Scotland still mainly a white area JD?

We're multicultural up here too Andy, obviously less ethnics than down your way as we have a much smaller population.

But we don't whinge about them, why would we?

Joy Division wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:


Is Scotland still mainly a white area JD?

We're multicultural up here too Andy, obviously less ethnics than down your way as we have a much smaller population.

But we don't whinge about them, why would we?

82 shot, 14 fatally - one weekend.

Read the blumming thread!

BigAndy9 wrote:

Joy Division wrote:


We're multicultural up here too Andy, obviously less ethnics than down your way as we have a much smaller population.

But we don't whinge about them, why would we?

82 shot, 14 fatally - one weekend.

Read the blumming thread!

But I did, I did!

So these were racial killings then?

Joy Division wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:



82 shot, 14 fatally - one weekend.

Read the blumming thread!

But I did, I did!

So these were racial killings then?

BigAndy9 taps his nose on the side...

Shhhh

BigAndy9 wrote:

Joy Division wrote:



But I did, I did!

So these were racial killings then?

BigAndy9 taps his nose on the side...





Shhhh

Ohh!...Mum's the word then Andy.

Joy Division wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:


BigAndy9 taps his nose on the side...





Shhhh

Ohh!...Mum's the word then Andy.

http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/

BigAndy9 wrote:

Joy Division wrote:

Ohh!...Mum's the word then Andy.

http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/

Yes, I've had a look at the link Andy, but why you being so cryptic?..I've read about the appalling homicides.

Joy Division wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:


http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/

Yes, I've  had a look at the link Andy, but why you being so cryptic?..I've read about the appalling homicides.

Me being cryptic?

I'm very clear JD, always am.

It's most of the posters on here who play dumb.

BigAndy9 wrote:7th July 2014

Bracca, bringing security to a free country, Mandela-stylie!

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   Pardon !?!

Let's hope one of the mod's deletes this fallacious and hatemongering line when they see it ?

 ::dedhrs:: 

Lone Wolf wrote:

BigAndy9 wrote:7th July 2014

Bracca, bringing security to a free country, Mandela-stylie!

...............................................

    Pardon !?!

Let's hope one of the mod's deletes this fallacious and hatemongering line when they see it ?

 ::dedhrs:: 

And why would they delete my post?

BigAndy9 wrote:

Joy Division wrote:

Ohh!...Mum's the word then Andy.

http://homicides.suntimes.com/victims/

If you go to the link you can click on the pull down menu on the right to see 100 victims per page.

There is a white victim on that first page somewhere - he was killed by a black man.

Now, i didn't check out every black victim - maybe they were all killed by whites...?

What do you all think?

whats the ethnic makeup of the neighborhood??

smelly_bandit wrote:whats the ethnic makeup of the neighborhood??

Doesn't matter.

It only takes two blacks to be walking through and you could end up with a shoot out.

By the look of things, anyway...