Chicago suffered yet another horrific weekend of carnage under Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s leadership. While hundreds of cops were tied up protecting Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s street and the Columbus statue in Grant Park, violent criminals racked up quite a butcher’s bill elsewhere in the city: 13 killed and 65 more maimed.
Things got off to a busy start for police on Friday evening at Grant Park. Scores, if not hundreds of cops were attacked by Antifa and Black Lives Matter “peaceful protesters.”
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From there, the weekend just crashed downhill.
In the end, HeyJackass reports 13 dead, 65 more maimed. More than the last two years combined in homicides and almost as many wounded.
Final Stupidity Tally: 13 killed, 65 wounded
2019 weekend tally: 3 killed, 41 wounded
2018 weekend tally: 9 killed, 36 wounded
2017 weekend tally: 7 killed, 38 wounded
2016 weekend tally: 6 killed, 42 wounded
2015 weekend tally: 7 killed, 34 wounded
2014 weekend tally: 2 killed, 30 woundedFriday 7/17
2:45p 3200 W 13th, North Lawndale, M/18
2:45p 3200 W 13th, North Lawndale, M/20
2:45p 3200 W 13th, North Lawndale, M/21
2:45p 6600 S Ingleside, Woodlawn, M/21
3:25p 7700 S Carpenter, Auburn Gresham, M/26
5:30p 8200 S Drexel, Chatham, M/14
5:30p 8200 S Drexel, Chatham, F/27
5:30p 8200 S Drexel, Chatham, M/31
Audio: Mostly Peaceful Rioters Gather in Grant Park
CWB Update: Grant Park Riot Dispatch
Second City Cop Riot Update
7:25p 100 E 71st, Grand Crossing, M/?
7:30p 7500 S Racine, Auburn Gresham, M/26
7:40p 9800 S Avenue L, East Side, M/22
8:05p 7400 S Peoria, Englewood, M/28
9:30p 10900 S Wentworth, Roseland, M/42
9:30p 10900 S Wentworth, Roseland, M/49
9:30p 10900 S Wentworth, Roseland, M/49
9:45p 6900 S Lafayette, Grand Crossing, M/17
9:50p 8200 S Drexel, Chatham, M/60
9:50p 8200 S Drexel, Chatham, M/22
10:25p 7000 S Cregier, South Shore, M/36
10:30p 8000 S Cottage Grove, Chatham, F/19
10:30p 8000 S Cottage Grove, Chatham, M/20
10:30p 8000 S Cottage Grove, Chatham, M/30
11:25p 3200 W Cermak, Little Village, M/43
Saturday 7/18
12:30a 4900 W Hubbard, Austin, M/67
1:00a 3600 W Argyle, Albany Park, M/14
1:25a 2000 W Congress, Near West Side, M/29
2:30a 100 W Erie, Near North Side, F/18
2:30a 100 W Erie, Near North Side, M/21
2:35a 5500 W Diversey, Belmont Cragin, M/17
3:10a 300 N Mayfield, Austin, M/34
3:10a 1600 S Keeler, North Lawndale, M/25
3:10a 1600 S Keeler, North Lawndale, M/32
3:10a 1600 S Keeler, North Lawndale, F/36
3:10a 1600 S Keeler, North Lawndale, M/?
3:10a 1600 S Keeler, North Lawndale, M/?
3:15a 10500 S Edbrooke, Roseland, M/26
3:15a 10500 S Edbrooke, Roseland, F/27
3:30a 2600 W 24th, Little Village, M/18
4:00a 300 W Ontario, Near North Side, M/21
4:30a 2200 W 21st, Lower West Side, M/24
5:00a 5800 W Wrightwood, Belmont Cragin, M/? (selfie)
6:30a 3400 W Ohio, Humboldt Park, M/25
1:30p I57 @ 111th, Morgan Park, ?/?
1:30p 4100 W 24th, Little Village, M/35
1:35p 7900 S Lafayette, Chatham, F/35
3:35p 1500 S Sawyer, North Lawndale, M/14
3:35p 1500 S Sawyer, North Lawndale, M/17
6:00p 4400 W Gladys, Garfield Park, M/34
7:25p 1300 N Hudson, Near North Side, M/35
9:30p 7600 S Green, Auburn Gresham, M/14
11:30p 5600 S Wolcott, Englewood, M/25
Sunday 7/19
12:35a 5700 S Paulina, Englewood, F/19
12:35a 5700 S Paulina, Englewood, M/26
1:40a 1200 W 79th, Auburn Gresham, M/31
2:35a 300 N Wabash, Loop, M/35
2:35a 300 N Wabash, Loop, F/25
2:55a 3200 W Cermak, Little Village, M/20
4:25a 7200 S Paulina, Englewood, F/24
4:25a 1200 S Fairfield, North Lawndale, M/26
12:15p 5400 W Quincy, Austin, M/25
1:05p 2900 W 36th, Brighton Park, M/22
4:30p 8200 S Ada, Auburn Gresham, M/10
4:30p 8200 S Ada, Auburn Gresham, M/11
4:30p 8200 S Ada, Auburn Gresham, M/28
5:50p 2200 S Millard, North Lawndale, M/32
9:30p 100 N Keeler, Garfield Park, M/17
9:30p 100 N Keeler, Garfield Park, M/19
9:30p 100 N Keeler, Garfield Park, M/26
10:45p 8200 S Cottage Grove, Chatham, M/21
11:05p 5000 S Wood, New City, M/48
11:50p 11300 S Carpenter, Morgan Park, M/26
11:50p 11300 S Carpenter, Morgan Park, M/41
11:50p 11300 S Carpenter, Morgan Park, M/26
11:50p 11300 S Carpenter, Morgan Park, M/37
11:50p 11300 S Carpenter, Morgan Park, M/48
No Accountability Monday
12:30a 7800 S Euclid, South Shore, M/28
3:10a 4700 W Arthington, Austin, M/31
3:35a 11700 S Loomis, West Pullman, M/?
Meanwhile, Mayor McGrumpypants Lightfoot grows increasingly irritable when called out for her derelict leadership. Donald Trump had offered to help three weeks ago, but Lightfoot was having none of it.
I don’t need leadership lessons from Donald Trump.
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) June 27, 2020
After a few dozen more dead bodies stacked up at the Cook County Morgue, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called Lightfoot out again for her dereliction of duty. The queen of mean shot back…
Hey, Karen. Watch your mouth. pic.twitter.com/zhjRyokKD5
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) July 16, 2020
To which McEnany took the high road, but still slapped the snot out of Lightfoot.
While you‘re focused on words, America is outraged by the violence perpetuated in your city.
One person is taking action to stop violence in our streets: President @realDonaldTrump.
He’s offered your city help. It’s a dereliction of duty not to take it.https://t.co/OFBwDKveax https://t.co/QLhQnQn2eW
— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) July 17, 2020
So what does Mayor Lightfoot do after that?
After the Grant Park melee, she didn’t call out the violent Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters. Instead, she sided with them, and urged them to file complaints against the cops trying to defend themselves.
Oh, but Lightfoot hadn’t finished.
I have spoken to the director of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, and she has assured me that @ChicagoCOPA stands ready to address these complaints and will ensure that each of these is dealt with and investigated. We will not spare any resources to do so.
— Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) July 18, 2020
As the Associated Press reported,
The war of words between Chicago’s mayor and President Donald Trump escalated Monday after a weekend when 12 were killed in the city and dozens injured by gunfire, with Lori Lightfoot rejecting any suggestion federal law enforcement officers should be dispatched to the city and Trump all but promising to send them.
In a letter sent to the president on Monday, Lightfoot said the deployment of secret, federal agents who “arrest, and detain residents without any cause” is a bad idea and urged the president not to do it.
Lightfoot, a frequent Trump critic, slammed the president in the letter for “unhelpful” rhetoric and detailed ways the federal government could help the city to reduce violence, including gun safety reform, public safety support, community outreach and community investment.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why criminals run with impunity in Murder City, USA. She won’t spare any resources to investigate the cops. But jailing the violent thugs shooting women, children and babies? Lightfoot’s too busy using her Twitter account to manage that issue.