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4 dead, 19 hurt in Chicago weekend shootings,
police say

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Posted By: sunset, 8/24/2025 8:14:20 PM

At least four people are dead, including a child, and 19 others were wounded in shootings across Chicago during the weekend, according to police. The ages of the victims range from 5 to 48. In the first shooting of the weekend, a 33-year-old woman was driving just before 7 p.m. in the 1900 block of West 66th Street when she suffered a gunshot wound to her right eye. Police said an unknown suspect inside a black vehicle fired multiple gunshots in the victim's direction and then fled in an unknown direction.

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That's a 4 day period. 23 people have been shot. Rough average of 6 shootings and one murder each day. Round up the usual suspects.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: bpl40 8/24/2025 8:26:05 PM (No. 1994983)
We already know the answer from DC.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Strike3 8/24/2025 8:26:39 PM (No. 1994985)
Chicago maintains it's normal state, illegals or not. I hope they are high up on the NG list.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: singermom9 8/24/2025 8:26:48 PM (No. 1994986)
Why do dems want the KILLINGS and CRIME to continue. If they cannot fix the problem GET OUT OF THE WAY
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Msquared112 8/24/2025 8:58:33 PM (No. 1994999)
And yet Chicago’s Mayor is talking about an “uprising” because of ICE enforcement. He couldn’t be that stupid. Could he?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: padiva 8/24/2025 9:10:39 PM (No. 1995002)
#4, Yup, he's that stupid. It's just more talking points for the Republicans: Dems prefer crime ridden cities/etc.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: JimBob 8/24/2025 9:10:41 PM (No. 1995003)
Hey, Black Lives Matter, y'all!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Californian 8/24/2025 9:19:35 PM (No. 1995006)
3, they don't see a problem. Those are just their voters doing their thing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Lawsy0 8/24/2025 9:38:00 PM (No. 1995009)
Has Obama been informed? /s
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Reply 9 - Posted by: JHHolliday 8/25/2025 12:13:20 AM (No. 1995029)
What in our Creator's name can these people be thinking to think that it's right to do these things? Four dead in one weekend? Families grieving and, when the perps are caught, their lives are over. Maybe they just don't have the capacity to think. They can't seem to connect their acts with future consequences. And yet, they blame Trump for trying to save lives. The same critics who say they care about the oppressed and unfortunate. It's easy for them to do as they sit safely in their guarded enclaves and call him Hitler. Trump could cure cancer and they would claim that he was cruelly putting oncologists out of work.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 8/25/2025 8:00:21 AM (No. 1995092)
It's a primitive third world culture at work. When you want something, you kill to take it. In the case of Chicago it's usually drug turf. They aren't the end of the Heroin Highway for nothing. And yes, democrats prefer it that way.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: John Moses Browning 8/25/2025 8:31:51 AM (No. 1995113)
The fatigue with the behavior of the usual suspects is real and growing across the country. We as Americans should not have to keep putting up with the out of control criminality in the blue districts.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Venturer 8/25/2025 8:39:14 AM (No. 1995121)
If Trump does something to stop the killing they will attack him full force. They love it just the way it is. Let them have it. They deserve it.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Krause 8/25/2025 10:01:44 AM (No. 1995190)
This has been going on for years. It's normal and accepted by all the recent democrat administrations. There's nothing to be done about it.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Philipsonh 8/25/2025 11:47:22 AM (No. 1995251)
To Reply #3. Most Democrats crave $$$, power, and control over others' lives. They do not care about anything else except their families and definitely not yours.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Starboard_side 8/25/2025 12:12:57 PM (No. 1995268)
My understanding is the majority of the violence is concentrated in 3 police districts. Remember, Democrats don't see it as a problem, just an issue of "don't let a good crisis go to waste", after all. It's a call to increase taxes, higher more government workers so they can continue to vote for the people who hired them.
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