CHICAGO (VINnews) — As Chicago was rocked by protests, looting and riots following the murder of George Floyd, criminal elements exploited the lawless atmosphere and committed no less than 18 murders on Sunday, May 31st. This was the worst day of violence in the last six decades in Chicago, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab, whose records only date back 60 years.
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The Chicago Sun Times reported that from 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 11 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 25 people were killed in the city, with another 85 wounded by gunfire.
Even in a city with an international reputation for crime — where 900 murders per year were common in the early 1990s, it was the most violent weekend in Chicago’s modern history, stretching police resources that were already thin because of the protests and looting.
“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the crime lab. “ … I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.”
The next highest murder total for a single day was on Aug. 4, 1991, when 13 people were killed in Chicago, according to the crime lab.
The Rev. Michael Pfleger, a longtime crusader against gun violence who leads St. Sabina Church in Auburn Gresham, told the Chicago Sun Times that it was “open season” last weekend in his neighborhood and others on the South and West sides.
“On Saturday and particularly Sunday, I heard people saying all over, ‘Hey, there’s no police anywhere, police ain’t doing nothing,’” Pfleger said.
“I sat and watched a store looted for over an hour,” he added. “No police came. I got in my car and drove around to some other places getting looted [and] didn’t see police anywhere.”
Pfleger noted that the systemic problems that have plagued minority communities for decades — like joblessness, food insecurity and a lack of housing — were already heightened by the COVID-19 outbreak, which he said “made a bad situation worse.”
Floyd’s killing in Minnesota simply brought to the fore the “hopelessness and anger” felt by those living in blighted communities, added Pfleger, who said the current unrest reminds him of the rioting that broke out when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
“It’s like a time bomb out here,” Pfleger said. “People are on the edge, people are angry, people are poor, and they don’t even know when it’s going to change.”
If immediate action isn’t taken to address systemic racism, poverty and “black folks being shot down and killed out here like dogs,” Pfleger said the last weekend in May will merely serve as a “coming attraction of what’s going to happen next.”
Most homicide victims in Chicago are young, black men, and the suspects are, too. But murders have fallen significantly in recent years, along with police-involved shootings. There were 764 murders and 12 fatal police-involved shootings in 2016, compared with 492 murders and three fatal police-involved shootings last year.
“The level of activity experienced over the last week has been unprecedented and the Department is actively investigating multiple incidents across the city and working to determine the motives in these cases,” Chicago Police spokesman Thomas Ahern said in a statement. “… The Department is actively working to seek justice for all the residents impacted, especially those who have been killed or injured by these senseless acts of violence.”
Ahern said that after the “increased violent and criminal activity” on Saturday, May 30, police canceled days off for all officers and placed them on 12-hour shifts in order to direct “our full force of manpower towards Chicago’s neighborhoods, particularly on the South and West Sides.”
One would think that with all that gun control the fine citizens of Chicago would not have guns and a proclivity to kill each other. You can legislate gun control all you want but you can legislate people of low character to behave. Thank you Democrats for your fine ideas and leadership. LOL.
Apparently no one on the left gives a bleep about them killing each other unless they can find a way to blame Trump.
My above words should have been can’t legislate people to behave.
So does anyone stop and think ? Why are we allowing protests that lead to death and plunder? Thats democracy? Have we gone mad? No this is not fascism, its common basics.
In our democracy, the rules were always peaceful protests, and you need a permit. You can’t just protest how and when you want. You can’t obstruct traffic. Its dangerous to obstruct traffic and block bridges. Anyone recall bridgegate?
We need to ban all Floyd protests. Enough is enough. Yes a few rotten apples ruin it for all. We can’t enable portests when citzens property is rainsacked. We can’t allow protests if the population has to live i n such fear. if we all have to lock up our stores and triple lock our homes while we coil in fear protests cannot be allowed. Democracy is not about enabling protests to terrorize entire populations. If its not done peacefully then no more protests. Finshed. We have completely gone crazy.
Democrat run nuff said.
Top 10 cities by murder rate and how long they have been democrat run
St. Louis – 70 years
Baltimore – 50 years
Detroit – 55 years
New Orleans – 145 years
Baton Rouge – 15 years and 135 out of the last 145 years
Kansas City – 30 years and 78 out of the last 90 years
Cleveland – 30 years and 65 out of the last 80 years
Memphis – 30 years
Newark – 65 years
Chicago – 90 years
Unless you have all been asleep, America is changing quickly and its not for the good.
When the savages are setting the agenda, then everyone else is cooked. More so the Jews.
They are unarmed and pathetic in their world view. They seriously believe the goy among whom they live, gives two figs as to their well being. In short the Jews are in trouble. It doesn’t matter if you are woke liberal, or Charedi Payos, it doesn’t matter. You are in trouble.
Draw your own conclusions. The writing is on the wall, and it doesn’t say WELCOME.
It is worse to live in Chicago than in NYC. It winters are much worse than NYC, with much colder weather, and much more snow. The summers are also brutal in Chicago. The downtown area near the El has plenty of street people on a par with NYC.
I can take NYC, but not Chicago.