Presiding Over Slaughter in Chicago

During 2020,  774 mostly black people in Chicago were murdered, a 50% increase compared to 2019.  Shootings were up by over 52% with 3,237 shot.   Those numbers should have raised questions among voters about reelecting progressive States Attorney Kim Foxx, who, according to the Chicago Tribune, dropped charges against over 25,000 felons in 2019 and ran on the promise not to prosecute so-called low level criminals like drug dealers and thieves.   But with $2 million from George Soros, as reported in the Sun Times,  Foxx won reelection last November by over 180,000 votes.  Apparently the voters are willing to tolerate more crime because they like her politically correct anti-police and pro Black Lives Matter messaging.

And Foxx supporters are definitely tolerant.  Last weekend the Sun Times reported that forty five people were shot, with five fatalities.  Among the shooting victims were two teenagers and three women.   Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that a second man has been arrested for the murder of a 7-year-old girl and the injury of her father.  The victims were shot while in their car at a McDonalds drive-thru.  The suspect,  a 21-year-old gang-banger was free on bond on charges for four felonies when he and an accomplice exited their vehicle at the McDonalds and opened fire on the 29-year-old father’s car last month.  The shooters actually got back in their vehicle, then got out again to fire more shots into the car carrying the little girl.   Everybody involved in this incident was black.  Chicago is on track to set new shootings and homicide records again this year.