Friends Remember University of Chicago Student
Killed by Stray Bullet on CTA Train
Posted By: AltaD, 7/6/2021 8:29:15 AM
A University of Chicago student who died three days after a stray bullet struck him while on a CTA train is being remembered by friends and classmates as a gentle and caring person. Max Lewis, 20, was shot in the neck while riding a CTA Green Line train in Washington Park on the South Side Thursday. (Snip)"He wasn't walking into a bad area, he wasn't doing something he shouldn't have done. He was working an internship and took public transportation that thousands of millions of people take in the city." Lewis was pursuing a double major in economics and computer science and involved with the student community on the university's campus.
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Mental health clinicians will start
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â instead of cops 33 replies
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â instead of cops 33 replies
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In one pilot program starting this fall, a paramedic will be dispatched with a mental health clinician for âbehavioral health calls.â In another, a paramedic will work with a ârecovery specialistâ on calls involving substance abuse.
Mental health clinicians will be on hand at the 911 center to monitor situations (Snip) Before the pilots begin, however, the city will staff two ambulances each with a police officer trained in crisis intervention, a paramedic and a mental health clinician.
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Epidemiologist and public health professor Michael Baker said: "What we're seeing now is we've accumulated a whole lot of susceptible children that have missed out on exposure
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A University of Chicago student who died three days after a stray bullet struck him while on a CTA train is being remembered by friends and classmates as a gentle and caring person.
Max Lewis, 20, was shot in the neck while riding a CTA Green Line train in Washington Park on the South Side Thursday. (Snip)"He wasn't walking into a bad area, he wasn't doing something he shouldn't have done. He was working an internship and took public transportation that thousands of millions of people take in the city."
Lewis was pursuing a double major in economics and computer science and involved with the student community on the university's campus.
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NFL says 'Football is gay' in new commercial
that makes clear its support of LGBTQ+ community 60 replies
that makes clear its support of LGBTQ+ community 60 replies
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For those who see the Hand of God in extraordinary natural phenomena, a lightning strike in Toledo, Ohio is being seen as divine retribution. Others call it karma. Witnesses reported that lightning struck a George Floyd memorial mural, not only burning the artistic expression, but collapsing the brick wall on which it was painted. (snip) plenty of people are laughing at the symbolism, while others piously bemoan their sentiments and/or denounce them, as racists.
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My favorites? "White lightning, I presume....."
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TWA 800: 25 Years of
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Deep State Deception 47 replies
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Mental health clinicians will start
answering some 911 calls in Chicago
â instead of cops 33 replies
answering some 911 calls in Chicago
â instead of cops 33 replies
For the first time in Chicago, some 911 calls for mental health emergencies wonât be answered by police officers but by mental health professionals paired with paramedics.
In one pilot program starting this fall, a paramedic will be dispatched with a mental health clinician for âbehavioral health calls.â In another, a paramedic will work with a ârecovery specialistâ on calls involving substance abuse.
Mental health clinicians will be on hand at the 911 center to monitor situations (Snip) Before the pilots begin, however, the city will staff two ambulances each with a police officer trained in crisis intervention, a paramedic and a mental health clinician.