{"id":3647,"date":"2021-05-05T11:10:32","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:10:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T18:10:32","slug":"presiding-over-slaughter-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=3647","title":{"rendered":"Presiding Over Slaughter in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During 2020,\u00a0 774 mostly black people in Chicago were murdered, a 50% increase compared to 2019.\u00a0 Shootings were up by over 52% with 3,237 shot.\u00a0\u00a0 Those numbers should have raised questions among voters about reelecting progressive States Attorney Kim Foxx, who, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/investigations\/ct-kim-foxx-felony-charges-cook-county-20200810-ldvrmqvv6bd3hpsuqha4duehmu-story.html\">according<\/a> 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.\u00a0\u00a0 But with $2 million from George Soros, as <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/politics\/2020\/2\/20\/21146269\/george-soros-kim-foxx-bill-conway-states-attorney\">reported<\/a> in the Sun Times,\u00a0 Foxx won reelection last November by over 180,000 votes.\u00a0 Apparently the voters are willing to tolerate more crime because they like her politically correct anti-police and pro Black Lives Matter messaging.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And Foxx supporters are definitely tolerant.\u00a0 Last weekend the Sun Times <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/chicago-shootings-weekend-gun-violence-shooting-breaking-news\/10572703\/\">reported<\/a> that forty five people were shot, with five fatalities.\u00a0 Among the shooting victims were two teenagers and three women. \u00a0 Meanwhile, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/2nd-man-held-without-bond-013725142.html\">reports<\/a> that a second man has been arrested for the murder of a 7-year-old girl and the injury of her father.\u00a0 The victims were shot while in their car at a McDonalds drive-thru.\u00a0 The suspect,\u00a0 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&#8217;s car last month.\u00a0 The shooters actually got back in their vehicle, then got out again to fire more shots into the car carrying the little girl. \u00a0 Everybody involved in this incident was black.\u00a0 Chicago is on track to set new shootings and homicide records again this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2020,\u00a0 774 mostly black people in Chicago were murdered, a 50% increase compared to 2019.\u00a0 Shootings were up by over 52% with 3,237 shot.\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 But with $2 million from George Soros, as reported in the Sun Times,\u00a0 Foxx won reelection last November by over 180,000 votes.\u00a0 Apparently the voters are willing to tolerate more crime because they like her politically correct anti-police and pro Black Lives Matter messaging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Presiding Over Slaughter in Chicago - Crime &amp; 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