MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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[CRIME news] Child Among 3 Killed in Shooting Inside Publix in Palm Beach County
By artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 7:50pm |[Previous Crime News thread HERE, covering June 1 thru 10]
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by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 7:59pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 8:02pm
Omaha:
Minneapolis:
Seattle:
Memphis:
South Carolina:
Connecticut:
Arizona
Savannah, Georgia:
Alabama:
Monroe, LA:
Rochester, MN:
Chicago:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 10:28pm
^ note truly allover the country tonite!
on lawsuit by 2018 mass shooting survivor:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 10:34pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 10:42pm
NYPD posted on it too, including video:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 3:46am
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 11:45pm
this one happened at the end of last year; it's the promotion of the video that's news.
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/11/2021 - 11:53pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 2:42am
Uh, yeah - why's his attorney saying that. "every bone in his face", "all his teeth missing", "gurgling sound" as he left - not quite Silence of the Lambs i guess.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 3:38am
Here's two where it's clear the social workers are clearly slacking off:
a further selection of Spot News tweets
um, no words:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 3:16am
whoa R. Kelly shit still going on:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 3:22am
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 3:42am
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 1:13pm
^ Editor's note: Due to the magnitude of this shooting as a matter of public safety, the Statesman is making this story free for everyone to read. Statesman journalists are working to find as much information as possible and will continue to report on this story.
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 1:17pm
note suggested links within the Austin Statesman mass shooting story:
More:Gun violence on the rise in Austin; city to accelerate prevention, intervention programs
PREVIOUS COVERAGE:Austin police see troubling trend after 3 fatal shootings in less than a week
MORE:As city marks dozens of homicides in 2021, Austin police to target gun violence
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 1:21pm
yes odd:
they changed the wording a bit; race?
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 1:26pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 2:34pm
China's state media and Russian Today likes the Austin shooting story more than the other two:
Bangladesh is interested too:
I imagine that they figure Chicago lives don't matter to Chicagoans, so shootings there are not really news.
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 2:40pm
One arrest made in Austin, Texas, mass shooting that injured 14 people
By Alta Spells and Deanna Hackney, CNN, Updated 2236 GMT (0636 HKT) June 12, 2021
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 6:54pm
2nd Austin suspect arrested, is 17 years old
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 6:01pm
They are going to publish the booking photograph of the second one because he is being charged as an adult. He was arrested at his high school summer school class in Killeen!
That's 4 underage charged with killing with guns today, 2 in Atlanta, 2 in Texas.
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 6:12pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 12:47am
ALSO SHOOTING OF 10 IN CHICAGO OVERNITE, 1 DEAD:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 1:32pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 2:00pm
More on the mass shooting of 10 in Chicago:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 8:53pm
Mother of 3 killed in weekend mass shooting was in the ‘prime of her life,’ cousin says
Kimfier Miles, 29, was killed in a mass shooting early Saturday on the South Side that also wounded nine others.
By Tom Schuba @ Chicago Sun Times, Jun 13, 2021, 7:32pm CDT
also see
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 6:27pm
Just wondering if anyone has anyone told her there is an organization with the name "Black Lives Matter" that protested against police for most of last year with the goal of defunding police especially in heavily Afro-American neighborhoods?
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 6:37pm
ALSO A MASS SHOOTING OF 9 IN SAVANNAH OVERNITE, including 1 dead, 2 kids injured
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 1:36pm
results from a Google search on "Savannah police force" by me:
"people also ask"
so I looked up population
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 2:52pm
Savannah police ask for help after mass shooting leaves 1 dead, 8 injured
Police chief, mayor ask witnesses to come forward.
by Jacqueline GaNun @ thecurrent.ga.org, June 12th, 2021
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 2:59pm
so much for policing by "community", the "community" won't say a word
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 3:03pm
Maybe some social workers would do the trick.
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 6:31pm
^ to be clear: 3 MASS SHOOTINGS LAST NIGHT: AUSTIN, CHICAGO, SAVANNAH.
It appears that a lot of gun owners are just not going to allow the Maya Wiley sort of rhetoric to fly this summer:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 1:48pm
this account is going with 4 mass shootings in the last 24 hours, including the 4 shot in a family dispute in Katy, Texas:
more on that here:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 2:14pm
in Milwaukee, WI:
Lafayette & Farwell is in a yuppie area generally called "the east side", a few blocks from the tony lake shore, it is not the "inner city."
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 8:19pm
In Cleveland, 5 killed overnight including 3 killed, 4 injured in a single mass shooting incident:
group of 4 hit in Cincinnati today, including 6-yr-old and 8-yr. old
hopefully this NOLA funeral was not interrupted by another shooting:
meanwhile in north Austin, a woman killed:
Denver:
Chicago keeps on keeping on:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 9:08pm
note on the guy killed sitting in his parked car in Chicago:
and here's a new one:
and a short while ago from the police radio, ramping up Sat night
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 9:28pm
on "the entwined histories of guns and race in America"
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/12/2021 - 9:35pm
I missed some. There are links to the stories on their linked chart.
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/13/2021 - 3:45am
Call News Affairs???
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/13/2021 - 1:55pm
with addition story gets stranger:
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/13/2021 - 2:03pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/13/2021 - 2:01pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/13/2021 - 2:11pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/13/2021 - 2:17pm
doubly so now with many more guns out there now for "protection" after so many (on "both sides") decided in 2020 that police couldn't take care of protection...
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/13/2021 - 2:46pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 7:58am
A note that I find this a little too focused on AR-15 mass shootings for my taste, when in reality following the news, I find that a couple guys or even a single guy with a handgun can and often enough do shoot like 4 to a dozen people in a home or in a crowd. Yeah, getting rid of the big weapons would help a little, but not a lot of what's been going on. It's foolhardy to think that will solve most of the gun violence problem.
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 8:05am
Children tried as adults
Kip Kinkel & childhood crime
(pretty amazing read, extremely well written for Huffpost,
imprisoned since the 90's - for good reason, but...)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kip-kinkel-is-ready-to-speak_n_60abd623e4...
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 8:38am
I read parts. The mental illness angle struck me more than the age angle. We have a ton of mentally ill people in prisons, and we also have them wandering the streets homeless once they are let out if they are. And we have tough laws in most places making it hard to to claim mental illness as a defense. We just shove it all under the rug. When they are as severe as his case, where he is like a different person with medication and therapy, there's got to be better solutions. In many states we spend a lot on imprisoning them, at the very least it would cost the same having them in a different kind of institution. I'm not a criminologist, maybe it helps to have a mixed population, I don't know. Just seems so often that we could have better outcomes for the same cost.
That said, he had the kind of illness where he was able to hide it from help, from earlier intervention; have to admit I am not sure anything could be done. Not even keeping him away from weapons, he'd have gotten them somehow, he was driven...
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 9:05am
Atlanta again:
apparently the mall has a reputation for having a lot of shooting?
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 9:16am
and again, Atlanta turning into one of Dante's circles?
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 9:18am
this tweet makes a weird connection:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 10:38am
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 5:57pm
^ Two 15-yr.Olds Charged After Atlanta Mall Security Guard Wounded by Gunfire
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 6:04pm
the kids shot the Lenox mall guard in the chest because he wouldn't let them in the Apple store
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 11:51pm
excerpt from this FT op-ed by Rana Foroohar 3 HOURS AGO (no paywall with this link)
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 9:48am
Policing needed authority. Criminals don't mind social workers or security looking over their shoulder. Even the Capitol thing - police completely overrun, helpless, in disarray - that just encourages all the street idiots. It's not all parking meters and crosswalks after school. Gonna get messier.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 10:51am
Woman killed after car plunges into Minneapolis protest over fatal police shooting of Black man
by Travis Gettys @ RawStory.com, June 14, 2021
reporting that people were having "a joyous time" before the car came strikes me as kind of odd if the protest was supposed to be about the fatal police shooting of a black man. I question whether much of the crowd was protesting late on Sunday night, especially if they were being "joyous". It matters as to motive of the homicidal driver, it implies he was intentionally attacking protesters.
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 12:40pm
NPR report is a litttle clearer, including the picture, it looks like it actually was a protest and it was about the shooting of Smith by U.S. marshals, not police:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 12:46pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 12:43pm
Tennessee
Tucson:
Orlando:
San Antonio in April:
FYI on Austin shooting:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 1:00pm
Atlanta again, with interesting picture:
but wait, there's more:
lots more:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 1:22pm
uh oh not good, in NYC this is the equivalent of "broken windows":
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 2:07pm
Dr. Eric noticed the above
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 10:10pm
dupe deleted
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 10:20pm
no luck, tho, on the mass shooting; it's a "no-snitch culture";
the mayor lecturing the town about it
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 10:17pm
Winston-Salem NC today, severe attack on police, starting with firing into the station! Amazing story,. Fleeing and exchanging fire with them. He merely ended up in the hospital and in custody, not dead.Ridiculous that they even have to do this. Note she ends by saying "you can expect a large police presence throughout the area" through the evening. NO KIDDING
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 10:27pm
Hawaii today: fired 30 rounds at police when they came to the door, his brother called said he was physically abusing their mother:
update on Winston-Salem (see video of Police Chief in above comment), gets stranger, he probably killed his mother & grandmother before shooting into the police station
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 11:00pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 11:26pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/14/2021 - 11:53pm
She's talking about the Winston-Salem incident (see upthread for more); I checked her account, that's where she is:
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 12:04am
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 12:37am
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 12:53am
Social workers slacking again
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 2:04am
oh and Monday night is wild west night:
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 2:23am
So much for security guards in SF being tough on black shoplifters. Actually, the guy is very smart, not risking his life over this shit, just filming him doing it so it can go viral and he can later be crowd sourced ID'd when it goes viral, which it is doing. And he made a half-hearted grab for the bag on the guy's way out as well!
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 4:15pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 4:25pm
The cat'll be the turning point, mark my words.
by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 7:53pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 4:30pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 4:38pm
"Police say the victim has been uncooperative"
two separate incidents southern Maryland, victims 21 and 19 year old males, the 19 year old was shot in the head and died, the 21 year old is in a trauma center
Interesting that things have gotten to the stage there that they have a "Youth Gun Violence Task Force"! : Members of the Youth Gun Violence Task Force and detectives from the Criminal Investigations Division along with crime lab personnel responded to both locations and continued the investigations.
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 5:48pm
tweet from one young, black female:
meanwhile I am seeing A LOT of tweets along these lines about this one story, just sayin: this one is resounding -
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 5:56pm
this replier been reading stuff like this
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 9:55pm
"residents fear for their lives" at Wilson Apts. in Columbus, GA after -
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 10:01pm
the above strikes me as a totally opposing narrative to BLM rhetoric, people in this project, they want police there all the time
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 10:25pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 12:53am
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 1:02am
I note the last paragraph - is this the "no squealing" thing or is it madeup witnesses or prosecution incompetence? I didn't know about this trial, so I have no idea.
Meanwhile I see his sister is on the cover of Glamour this month.
Edit to add: and that the Army Times is running the A.P. version of the story because he is in the U.S. Army!
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 2:55am
If it was a big shootout, prolly no one wants to testify - everyone's roughly guilty.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 3:58am
Sotomayor Pens Lone Dissent in Response to Kavanaugh’s ‘Common Sense’ Ruling Against Convicted Felons in Possession of Guns
By COLIN KALMBACHER @ LawandCrime.com, Jun 14th, 2021
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 1:15am
Maybe Sotomayor can reverse the woman given 5 years for voting as an ex-con when she thought she could.
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 2:13am
This video shot by an anonymous witness shows an altercation and shooting at Dragway 42 in Wayne County that left one person dead.
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 3:18pm
One ot the accused shooters in Austin mass shooting is black, 17 yrs. old but being charged as adult so they have to publish the mug shot:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 3:51pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 3:53pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 3:57pm
Baltimore Fraternal Order of Police:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 5:22pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 4:02pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 4:07pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 4:20pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 4:54pm
(newest mentioned was Tues. night; with Chicago, hard to keep track of whether I posted it already)
rare instance of a story of the many white people shot by police:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 5:14pm
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 5:29pm
Off thread-because not a crime BUT: FUCK STREET PROTESTERS in Manhattan. Look at this. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE puhleez. Bound to be counterproductive, is like harassment, you lose more than you gain, costs people time and money. These are main intersections, will tie up the entire city. Fuck them.
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 5:35pm
need some dark humor in the mix here
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 10:55pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 1:01am
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 1:07am
cop critic losing his son to a driveby is a lot worse than a liberal getting mugged, I presume:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 2:06am
good new law in San Jose; that said, won't help with all the sale of illegal guns and guns bought elsewhere, but it's something, sure would help if it was nationwide:
In this case the gun dealers inside city limits will not be able to compete with those across the city line?
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 2:15am
from one of the "star" writers of the New Yorker, who we now know from stories about unionization and threat of strike there, makes waaaay more than $60,000 a year:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 5:15pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 5:30pm
don't know when this is from and can't vouch for his story, but the video & his point are still worth a look:
ah, the village of Minooka, IL just had their first shooting of the year, sort of bragging?
FWIW, the rapper/gun violence thing appears to be going on in Canada too:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 5:58pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 7:16pm
The AZ shooting story is turning out to be a spree across a wide area over a 90-min. period Thurs. afternoon, some injury victims had shrapnel wounds instead of being shot! Involving 3 police departments
1 killed, 3 others shot and 9 more injured in West Valley shooting spree, police say
By: Josh Frigerio @ abc15.com, last updated 7:24 PM, Jun 17, 2021
there is a Peoria police update video at the link, I couldn't get it to play or embed it, probably because too busy
edit to add, CNN has now published on it:
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 7:45pm
(user @eliot tweeted a scanner report back at John Wiseman that was probably what John saw)
by artappraiser on Thu, 06/17/2021 - 7:51pm
update, downtown LA shooting that left John Wiseman "shaking"
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 1:25am
some replies:
this quote tweet Spot News retweeted just a while ago:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 12:44am
this is from LA:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 1:17am
"social workers"
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 1:40am
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 1:55am
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 2:31am
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 2:56pm
thread on same at NYPD Crimestoppers:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 3:06pm
couple more cases for some social workers over at Crimestoppers:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 3:17pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 3:20pm
Hello mayoral candidates!
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 3:22pm
the NYCHA referred to in the 3 tweets below is NYC public housing projects --
next two are more detail on a story posted earlier and also there were 2 incidents, not one
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 8:19pm
a strap after all be an awesome accessory as well as a competitive advantage!
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 8:30pm
this is a very bad indicator, even most nuts would not normally do this in such a crowded station at such a crowded time:
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 9:22pm
Cop AS social worker, just like in the movies:
@ NYPost.com: Video: Suspect lunges for cop’s gun in police interview room June 18, 2021
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/18/2021 - 9:28pm
Chicago!!! geez
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 1:03am
Hopefully, anyone tearing down or defacing city statues and such without permission will be prosecuted with equal zeal.
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 4:34pm
as for the fucking idiot anarchist sympathizers: if you try to sabotage a city's surveillance system, well then when a driver plows down a bunch of protesters, there's not much that the police can do about it DOH:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 5:05pm
omg "they" shot a white guy and all he was trying to do is run from the scene when he hit 6 cyclists with his truck; isn't a person allowed to flee the scene of his crime without getting shot?
Police say the suspect, a 35-year-old white man, fled the scene, but was later shot and apprehended by police.
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 4:56pm
Decatur, IL:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 6:03pm
more on the Detroit freeway killing of the 2-yr. old:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 6:36pm
oops, one I thought was the same, it's Minneapolis, not Baton Rouge; so who went first celebrating the start pf Juneteenth with a mass shooting?
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 8:05pm
celebrating Juneteenth in Philly
and in NYC:
and in Omaha at the hospital:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 7:41pm
oh no wait, Philly celebrating with TWO triple-shootings (count em: two,) four blocks from each other:
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 8:19pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 8:33pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 7:53pm
arrest photo of the West Valley Arizona spree-shooting suspect
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 8:13pm
why is it like the cops speaking in code on the first shooting about youth gangs with guns?
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 10:57pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 06/19/2021 - 11:51pm
There were many shootings elsewhere on Juneteenth but it is interesting that the one that went really went "viral" on twitter, with lots of participation in commentary by "black twitter" was the shooting at Lake Merritt in Oakland area. I presume that this was both because it happened with a crowd of about 1,000 surrounding and caused a stampede situation, and (I admit I intuit this from a lot of commentary) that it is long a traditional place to celebrate the date that many people know about.
A lot of the reaction is not logical of course but a lot of shootings we are having are not a logical phenomenon. Made me realize that it is common for people of all subcultures to dismiss the incidence of shootings at night clubs and bars and such as expected activity where people are "sinning" already, and that includes "bad" neighborhoods, that they all sort of deserve it in some way, but when it is in a public place in the daytime where "good" people are gathered, it has much more shock effect.
There was a lot of interesting reaction, could result in some change in the types of activism we see. Especially in that the perps were young men. I will just grab a couple tweets off the top to give an idea, go to the link for more.
the San Francisco Chronicle tweet has a good picture of the aftermath:
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/20/2021 - 3:12pm
these stories are part of one major related phenomenon that has to be dealt with, mho:
whether one blames "rap culture" or not. Yes, young black men are profiled by police. It's easy to label that racism-as all profiling by physical characteristics is unfair. But It's not totally irrational to do this on their part, it doesn't come out of thin air.
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/20/2021 - 3:47pm
to his credit, "Sean #BlackLivesMatter" tweeted the story about nearly the same casualty count at a big party last night in Grainger, Indiana, while everyone is paying attention to Lake Merritt:
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/20/2021 - 5:41pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/20/2021 - 3:41pm
Last night there was an execution in Humboldt Park (Chicago) of a couple in their car in traffic, flying the Puerto Rican flag, and there is a video tape of the execution. In Chicago, it was the Puerto Rican Day Parade as well as Juneteenth. It is making big news on social media, no surprise there. I will be surprised if Twitter does not censor the video soon but so far it is still available
a reminder, though, that they were not the only people shot in Chicago last night; you just don't get videos so no one cares so much; as of 9 am CT
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/20/2021 - 5:02pm
yesterday I also noticed several reports of vicious robberies in Chicago which I had not seen before. Whether this is an actual case of uptick in incidents or just an uptick in reporting, either way is not good for tourism or giving it consideration as place to live. Four examples -
Armed men rob an entire family near
Magnificent Mile; Group has struck many
times this week, source says
June 16, 2021 CWB Chicago
Up to a dozen teens beat, rob girl at Chicago Red Line station
June 16, 2021 CWB Chicago
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/20/2021 - 5:19pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/20/2021 - 5:52pm
also nothing unusual went on in Oakland:
and
working on it all:
unfortunately a lot of "progressive" gun control activists think this kind of dramatic thing is the main problem:
but it's clearly not, won't help that much at all, as majority of the current epidemic of mayhem and homicide is due to handguns, it's just that simple, anyone paying attention to crime news can see it. You can shoot a lot of people with a handgun, it's happening every day (and a lot of injuries are also clearly due to the perps being bad shots with their handguns!)
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/20/2021 - 8:34pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 06/20/2021 - 9:54pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/21/2021 - 9:04am
how Monday is going in Chicago a short while ago:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/21/2021 - 7:01pm
countering Mayor Lightfoot's spinning:
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/21/2021 - 7:11pm
Black lives matter?
that's all the notoriety they'll probably get; that's it, over and out, on to the non-deceased
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/21/2021 - 7:30pm
above is horrific aftermath of
defund? the community will deal with it themselves better? chaotically screaming, freaking out, yelling "we need help"?
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/21/2021 - 7:43pm
^ video is right after 10 wounded, 1 killed Sunday-HAVEN'T SEEN A WORSE SCENE IN ANY VIETNAM WAR MOVIE!!! And it's a shrug in the news.
by artappraiser on Mon, 06/21/2021 - 7:47pm
Watch: Suspect pulled from beneath car after 1 killed, 10 injured in Wildwood Father’s Day event shooting
June 21, 2021 at 6:26 pm EDT
By Katlyn Brieskorn, WFTV.com
WATCH IT! decent brave WHITE cops in a possible fucking war zone (how do they know what's out there? they just go anyways!) and BLACK civilians scared to death huddled behind cars, perfect capture of the perp, who killed one and inalterably changed 10 other lives trying to celebrate father's day in the park. If 10 survive. One is still in the ICU.
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 12:48am
All black males in these most recent NYPD Crimestoppers videos. REALITY, like it or not, that no one will dare say but I will: NYPD Crimestoppers is basically asking the public to help them profile for black males that look like this:
Smile, you are on Candid Camera and one of your features is that you have black skin, another is you are male. There's a $3,500 bounty on your head. It's not racism! It's trying to catch criminals that hurt others! It's called policing. It's just reality!
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 1:13am
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 1:42am
St. Louis, MO:3 dead, 4 wounded in North City shooting
^ pssst: chief of police is black
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 1:32am
idiocracy by anti-police activist on gun control on MSNBC; you wouldn't dare make this up, nobody would believe it:
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 1:47am
by artappraiser on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 7:22pm
Kind of absurd fact in this news given all the shooting we have around the country ^ BUT we find it could have been much worse!!! Thank god for background checks, I guess -
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/23/2021 - 12:29am
CNN finally paying some attention to the epidemic; NYPD obviously doing pro-p.r. on "violence interrupters":
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/23/2021 - 2:04am
the woman of the couple hit by an execution style shooting of them in the car in Chicago on Juneteenth (flying Puerto Rican flag because Puerto Rican parade was same day) has died:
report of yet another Juneteenth shooting, in SC:
some random picks from today:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/23/2021 - 1:51am
investigation of Austin mass shooting June 12 sounds FUBAR:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/23/2021 - 1:55am
finally, it is true that this video has gone viral, I have seen it tweeted many times and it seems to be growing more viral and that's why I am copying it here now:
by artappraiser on Wed, 06/23/2021 - 3:53pm