After one of the most violent years in its history, only 12 days into the new year, already over 130 people have been shot in the Windy City. Twenty of those have died. Despite the freezing temperatures, during the second
Temperatures for Chicago’s second weekend of the new year finally measured in at what are more typically recorded for the city’s cold Winter days, but it didn’t put much of a damper on the gang warfare that so often breaks out in the streets there.
As the investigation and the recriminations over Chicago’s handling of the Laquan McDonald shooting continues to rile the Windy City, witnesses of the shooting are now coming forward to claim that the Chicago Police Department coerced them to change their stories to better conform to the statements of officers on the scene and even threatened those who refused to obey.
Embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has maintained since the beginning of the controversy over the 2014 death of a 17-year-old African American teen that he had little knowledge of the police dashcam video of the shooting. But new evidence shows that Emanuel was fully informed about what the video contained and led his lawyers to quash the release of the video just as he was running for re-election.
A Christian college in the western suburbs of Chicago has begun the process of firing a professor who recently caused controversy for claiming that Christians and Muslims pray to the same God.
On January 1, the Chicago Tribune reported that the number of shooting victims in gun-controlled Chicago for 2015 was 2,986.
As the nation celebrated New Year’s Day, most spending the day off work with family, the denizens of Chicago were working overtime to rack up victims. This year, on New Year’s Day, Chicago gang warfare racked up 2 deaths and 15 shot.
Despite an overall drop in crime, Washington D.C. has nonetheless experienced a whopping 54 percent increase in its murder rate for 2015, the city reports.
The year 2015 has been one of great gains for America’s newest generation of professional race-baiters, Black Lives Matter, and their allies in the elite media.
Only about 20 percent of Chicago police officers carry Tasers on patrol, but now, after a series of high profile police shootings, Chicago’s police superintendent has ordered that all officers be equipped with Tasers starting next year.
A top aide to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was physically assaulted while attending a vigil for two people killed by Chicago police officers.
Democratic Mayor Rahm Emanuel has cut short his family vacation in Cuba to return to Chicago, following two more shooting deaths by Chicago police this past weekend, as the Windy City braces for more protests.
Led by an activist, left-wing teacher, high school students at Chicago’s Roosevelt public high school recently engaged in a boycott aimed at changing the way school lunches are made and delivered to kids in the Chicago public school system.
In its first police involved shooting since the Chicago Police Department released dashcam video of the death of teenager Laquan McDonald, police shot and killed two residents–one likely by accident–during a domestic disturbance call on the city’s West Side.
As most citizens of the Windy City were gearing up for Christmas Day, others were still engaging in gangland shootings, and in the 48 hours leading up to the blessed day, three people were killed and seven were wounded—including a well-known local rap artist.
A couple hundred angry Black Lives Matter protesters once again took to the streets in Chicago, upset over the shooting death of Laquan McDonald and what they say is a coverup by Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The announcement came to protest “Mayor Scrooge” Emanuel on Christmas Eve on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile district of Michigan Avenue.
On December 22 the Chicago Tribune reported that the number of shooting victims in gun-controlled Chicago year-to-date is 2,887.
On December 16, satirist Dan Joseph released “The Gun Control Song,” mocking President Obama’s habit of responding to high-profile shootings by calling for more gun control while “blood is still fresh on the ground.”
The weather in Chicago was unseasonably warm for much of the week, and those balmy temps carried over into the weekend. Unfortunately the shootings continued, and the weekend brought yet another large number of wounded and dead Chicagoans. 27 were wounded—including a five-year-old boy—and two killed this weekend.
Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing growing calls for his resignation a full two weeks after the city released the shocking police dashcam video of a city police officer shooting an African-American teen to death.
The troubles facing recently re-elected Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel are mounting as a disparate group of activists are working to force him to resign. More ominous for the mayor, two state legislators are trying a different tactic by filing a bill that would change the law and allow city voters to impeach or recall the mayor.
Breanna Champion, the Chicago Co-Chair of the Black Youth Project 100 and an organizer of Wednesday’s protest at Chicago’s police headquarters stated, “One of our major demands is that police be defunded” on Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”
In light of the Democrat-sponsored gun control following the San Bernardino attack, it is crucial to remember the important role armed citizens play in keeping themselves and others safe.
When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) refused to hear a case challenging an “assault weapons” ban in a Chicago suburb on December 7, Justice Clarence Thomas dissented and revealed his belief that court “precedents”‘ would have shown AR-15s—and similar rifles—are protected by the Second Amendment.
The Chicago Police Department released the after action reports written by the officers involved in the 2014 shooting of an African American teen on Friday, but those accounts differ significantly from the details seen in the dashcam video of the shooting that sparked a week of protests in the Windy City.
