Obama didn’t directly cause the shootings, just another weekend of love, the Chicago way. Only seven people were killed and 35 people were injured.
Hey it varies week to week, so schedule accordingly. Reminds one of what Obama thinks is normal. Else why wouldn’t he do something about this black on black crime. Like maybe give a speech, a potent Obama response to everything he does. Or is he worried no one would come, or listen?
If it were my home city, wouldn’t you try and fix this problem. How about Rev Wright use his speaking power and try and tamp down the violence. Well on second though, maybe a hate America sermon might not work.
But hey there were 100-200 cops frisking people at Valeri Jarret’s daughter’s wedding … maybe those cops should have been elsewhere? Stopped a few shootings? You know law enforcement type things?
Just another weekend in Chicago:
President Barack Obama’s visit to Chicago didn’t stop another violent weekend.
At least seven people were killed and 35 were injured since Friday night. The youngest victim was a 16-year-old girl who died after she was shot three times in the chest Saturday evening in the Englewood neighborhood.
Ten people were shot overnight Friday, and in one hour Sunday morning, three people were killed. The latest shooting happened just after midnight Monday when a 19-year-old was shot to death on the city’s North Side.
The shootings mark the third weekend in a row with gunfire injuries totaling well into the double digits. Last weekend, 46 people were hurt and eight killed across Chicago. The previous weekend, 29 were injured and three were killed in shootings.
“None of it is OK,” Supt. Garry McCarthy told NBC Chicago last week. “And I don’t want it to seem like we’re managing it, but the realistic expectations have to be over the long-term.”
This weekend marked the beginning of an overtime incentive program to put more police in neighborhoods where crime is highest. Fewer than 60 officers signed up for the program, though.
President Obama and his family arrived in Chicago Friday evening. They attended the wedding of senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett’s daughter, and the president spent Father’s Day golfing with friends.
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I see it as disturbing. And ominous that Obama seems not to care about the citizens of Chicago it in his armored convoy, with 200 cops removed from duty to sheppard a wedding along.
There is something seriously wrong about Obama’s blatant hypocrisy here and the Trayvon Martin shooting.
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