thebeave
Veteran Member
Oakland is not far behind Chicago.* Violent weekend there too. A security guard who was protecting news reporters and equipment while they were reporting on the street in Oakland was shot last week, and died yesterday. Oakland is up to 127 homicides so far this year. Good job, Libby. Keep up the good work.A wonderful Thanksgiving weekend in Chicago;
Three people were killed and another 40 were shot over the holiday weekend in the latest surge in violent crime. Footage posted online shows a man, who does not appear to have a gun, running through the streets of Chicago as machine gun fire erupts nearby. Hours earlier a man, believed to be in his 20s, was killed in southern Chicago after he was shot several times in the back of his legs. It is not yet know if two incidents were connected. A 50-year-old man was shot in the chest during an attempted robbery on the city's Far South Side and a 22-year-old was struck in the leg by gunfire in the 5500 block of West Belmont Avenue on Sunday morning. Meanwhile video showed a vehicle overturned at the intersection of Huron and Wells after the two people inside were shot during a car chase. So far this year in Chicago, shooting incidents have seen a nine per cent spike, jumping to 3,221 from 2,960 in 2020.
DailyMail
* Actually, I take that back. Chicago has had 732 homicides so far this year, to Oakland's 127. So, its a long way behind. Still....