Chicago Homicides Surpass 500: Labor Day weekend in Chicago saw 13 people shot to death and 65 others wounded in shootings, including a nine months pregnant woman and a retired preacher, which has solidified this year as the city's deadliest in over two decades. Deanese Williams-Harris, Rosemary Regina Sobol, Peter Nickeas and Elvia Malagon of the Chicago Tribune report that the Labor Day weekend was the bloodiest of all the holiday weekends this summer, seeing more fatalities than on Memorial Day and Fourth of July weekends. After this weekend, a total of 512 people have been killed and another 2,930 others have been shot and injured across the city so far this year, rising to levels unseen since the 1990s. To put Chicago's violence into perspective, New York and Los Angeles, both larger cities than Chicago, have a combined total of 409 homicides this year.
Ex-Con Shoots and Injured Two Officers in CA Jail Lobby: Two unarmed correctional officers were critically wounded after being shot by an ex-convict in the lobby of a central California jail on Saturday. The AP reports that Thong Vang, 37, who was released from prison in 2014 after serving 16 years for raping three girls aged 14 and under, shot Officers Juanita Davila, who has 10 years of experience, and Toamalama Scanlan, an 18-year veteran, in the head and neck areas when the officers approached him after he tried to cut in front of the visitors' line and began pacing near a secure area of the Fresno County jail. Vang has been booked on suspicion of attempted murder, possessing a handgun as a felon and bringing drugs into jail. Authorities are evaluating security measures and will decide whether to change procedures in the public area of the jail.
Black Lies Matter: "[T]he Black Lives Matter movement is based on a lie, and not just the lie that a pacific Michael Brown was gunned down in cold blood by Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014," says Heather Mac Donald in this piece in the Washington Examiner. Mac Donald describes how the media, activists and many politicians promote "demonstrative untruths about police shootings, race and crime" touted in the BLM narrative. While BLM would like people to believe that racist, homicidal cops are targeting the black community, states Mac Donald, it is actually other blacks that are responsible for the staggering homicide rate. Through Aug. 30 of this year in Chicago, 17 out of 2,870 people were shot by police, accounting for 0.6% of the total, and most of them were threatening lethal force. Mac Donald concludes that "the best way to save black lives in lawful, proactive policing -- not a duplicitous war on cops."
Ex-Con Shoots and Injured Two Officers in CA Jail Lobby: Two unarmed correctional officers were critically wounded after being shot by an ex-convict in the lobby of a central California jail on Saturday. The AP reports that Thong Vang, 37, who was released from prison in 2014 after serving 16 years for raping three girls aged 14 and under, shot Officers Juanita Davila, who has 10 years of experience, and Toamalama Scanlan, an 18-year veteran, in the head and neck areas when the officers approached him after he tried to cut in front of the visitors' line and began pacing near a secure area of the Fresno County jail. Vang has been booked on suspicion of attempted murder, possessing a handgun as a felon and bringing drugs into jail. Authorities are evaluating security measures and will decide whether to change procedures in the public area of the jail.
Black Lies Matter: "[T]he Black Lives Matter movement is based on a lie, and not just the lie that a pacific Michael Brown was gunned down in cold blood by Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014," says Heather Mac Donald in this piece in the Washington Examiner. Mac Donald describes how the media, activists and many politicians promote "demonstrative untruths about police shootings, race and crime" touted in the BLM narrative. While BLM would like people to believe that racist, homicidal cops are targeting the black community, states Mac Donald, it is actually other blacks that are responsible for the staggering homicide rate. Through Aug. 30 of this year in Chicago, 17 out of 2,870 people were shot by police, accounting for 0.6% of the total, and most of them were threatening lethal force. Mac Donald concludes that "the best way to save black lives in lawful, proactive policing -- not a duplicitous war on cops."
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