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More from the Feb. 26 piece-

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:10:22 +0000

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More from the Feb. 26 piece--African-American homicide victims increased from 60% of victims in 2019 to 80% of victims; Columbus Police Chief sure sounds like he's into social work whether forced or by choice!

“Youth under 18 accounted for about 28 percent of those victims, and 80 percent of the victims were African American compared 60 percent in 2019,” Ortiz said.

Investigators said Fentanyl and cocaine are the cause of the most overdose deaths.

ODs are up 45 percent over last year, but the coroner said the numbers could be worse. “In terms of overdose deaths, I think it helps folks to be armed with Naloxone be armed with fentanyl testing strips.”

Columbus Police Chief Tom Quinlan said city leaders are looking for ways to drive down despair. “What can we do as a community, what can do as public safety professionals to try to change behaviors, change attitudes toward gun crimes and make more people speak up and be outraged and say enough is enough and do something,” said Quinlan.

wow, Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 26,

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:03:58 +0000

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wow, Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 26, before coronavirus:...Ortiz said suicides and homicides rose 40 percent...

WATCH: Franklin County Coroner is sharing her thoughts on the rash of overdose deaths and homicides at the start of 2020. https://t.co/0yA6RnrHu5
— WSYX ABC 6 (@wsyx6) February 26, 2020

I found that by happenstance from using a search on Twitter to try to find an Aug. 21 article currently on Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel's home page, which is titled Medical Examiner says 2020 homicides, overdose deaths and fatal crashes could set new highs. (I'm out of free article chits on their site and not going to pay.)

Five shot over weekend in

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:48:17 +0000

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Five shot over weekend in Champaign, IL including 4 men shot in a fight at an outdoor party, who went to the hospital on their own, someone else probably called police

Updated: Aug 23, 2020 / 10:36 AM CDT

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — City police say a 25-year-old man may not survive his injuries after he was hurt in one of two shootings that took place Saturday night and early Sunday morning.

A press release from the Champaign Police Department (CPD) said officers responded just after 10 p.m. Saturday to a shots fired report in the 900-1000 block of Bloomington Road.

Arriving at the scene, they found a 29-year-old man in the roadway with two gunshot wounds. He was taken to an area hospital, and CPD officials say he is expected to survive his injuries.

Then at 4:18 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to a reported shooting in the 100 block of Kenwood Road. At the scene, police observed evidence of a gun being fired and started to secure the area.

A short time later, CPD learned four men who had gunshot wounds arrived at local hospitals by personal cars. One was 37-years-old, and two were 30-years old. Police say their injuries were non-life-threatening.

The fourth man, who was 25-years-old, had a life-threatening gunshot wound to his chest. As of Sunday morning, CPD said his prognosis was not known.

According to the press release, the men were shot at a party taking place outside of an apartment complex area. A fight broke out, which led to the gunfire.

No arrests have been made as of Sunday morning [....]

Pine Bluff Arkansas had mass

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:37:41 +0000

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Pine Bluff Arkansas had mass shooting wounding at least 7 at a convenience store about 3 am on Sunday, the bullets also hit a Wendy's,a Citgo and vehicles nearby

there's a blurry cellphone video where the sound is heartbreaking and frightening, screaming and chaos

@sssselina 112 injured or

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 06:12:09 +0000

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@sssselina 112 injured or killed in 83 shootings over 9 days in NYC: 'I haven't seen anything like this in my entire life' https://t.co/521ThLQSvO via @1010wins
— Terri Dowd (@Teraze) August 24, 2020

Activists urge Pritzker to

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:59:02 +0000

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Activists urge Pritzker to send National Guard to Chicago, claim Lightfoot ‘can’t control the city’

“These police are on their own out there, and it’s despicable what’s going on in this city … We’re a laughingstock in the nation right now,” said community activist Frank Coconate.

By Tom Schuba Aug 23, 2020, 1:57pm CDT @ Chicago.suntimes.com

A group of community activists implored Gov. J.B. Pritzker to declare a state of emergency and have the Illinois National Guard deployed to Chicago on Sunday, just two days after Mayor Lori Lightfoot and her allies stymied a similar push during a special City Council meeting.

In calling for the assistance, the activists pointed to the city’s surging summer gun violence as they urged both members of the City Council and Congress to rally behind police officers they claim have been outnumbered and attacked at recent protests.

“This mayor, Lori Lightfoot, she can’t control the city. It’s out of hand,” Raul Montes Jr., a former candidate for City Council and the state Senate, said during a news conference in Little Village. “We need the National Guard to help out the police.”

On Friday, a proposal to have Pritzker declare an emergency and allow the deployment of the National Guard was referred to committee for further discussion on a 30-17 vote. Ahead of the vote, Lightfoot accused the four aldermen pushing the measure of “grandstanding.”

Two of them, Lightfoot has noted, are her most outspoken City Council critics: Anthony Beale (9th) and Ray Lopez (15th). Lopez and Beale were joined by Ald. Anthony Napolitano (41st), whose Far Northwest Side ward is home to scores of police officers, and Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th), who represents Hyde Park and South Shore [....]

57 shot, 5 fatally, so far

artappraiser — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:56:34 +0000

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57 shot, 5 fatally, so far this weekend in Chicago

The latest fatal attack left a man dead in Lawndale on the West Side.

By Sun-Times Wire Updated Aug 23, 2020, 11:48pm CDT

Five people have been killed and 52 others have been injured in shootings across Chicago so far this weekend.

The latest fatal attack killed a 27-year-old man Sunday in Lawndale on the West Side.

Martin Coleman was shot in the chest and pelvis during an argument about 6:20 a.m. in the 1800 block of South Komensky Avenue, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital.

A shooting Saturday killed one man and wounded another in Little Village on the Southwest

They were shot about 7:22 a.m. in the 2500 block of South Trumbull Avenue, police said.

Esteban Campos Jr., 43, was shot multiple times and pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital, officials said. Another man, 30, took himself to Stroger Hospital in good condition with a gunshot wound to the arm.

About two hours earlier, another shooting left one man dead in Austin on the West Side.

Devon Nelson, 31, was found unresponsive outside with a gunshot wound to the head about 5 a.m. in the 100 block of North Mayfield Avenue, officials said. He was taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, where he was pronounced dead.

A man was shot to death and another was critically wounded about three hours earlier in South Chicago.

They were at a gathering at 2:04 a.m. on a porch in the 8500 block of South Burley Avenue when a male got out of a vehicle and shot at them, officials said. Antione Rose, 33, was shot in the head and abdomen and died at the scene. The other man, 32, was hit in the abdomen and leg. He was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition [....]

Officer suspended after

artappraiser — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 02:33:41 +0000

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Officer suspended after saying boy killed in shooting 'should have ducked'

@ odt.co.nz, Aug. 21 (of interest alone that they are interested in this story in New Zealand!)

A US prison officer has been suspended from his job over a Facebook post in which he allegedly claimed a 5-year-old boy who was fatally shot "should've ducked".

Cannon Hinnant was gunned down in front of his sisters, aged 7 and 8, while playing outside their family home in North Carolina on August 9.

His tragic death has been seized on by detractors of the Black Lives Matter movement who claim Cannon's killing would have been treated differently if he was black.

Cannon's neighbour Darius Sessoms, who is black, has been arrested over the killing and Sessoms' parents have claimed their son had been suffering with drug and mental health issues.

In the wake of the ugly debate sparked by Cannon's death, a prison officer at the Cumberland County Juvenile Detention Centre in New Jersey, was suspended from his job on Wednesday.

The prison officer, Rome Smith, allegedly wrote on Facebook about Cannon's death blaming the boy's parents, which was screenshot and widely circulated.

"He should've ducked," Smith allegedly wrote. "Y'all always trying to sneak diss and discredit a black person being killed innocently by police. Blame cannon's parents for not watching him!!! F Y'ALL."

Smith's post sparked outrage and claims he was "obviously racist against caucasians", the New York Post reported.

In a statement to NJ.com, Smith's employer said he had been suspended and denounced the "shockingly insensitive and racist" comments [....]

There is a screenshot at the link.

A bit more on the Facebook thing here:

Cannon Hinnant killing: Facebook group supporting suspect Darius Sessoms goes viral before it is taken down

The group, which seems to have been taken down, was reportedly titled 'Justice for Darius Sessoms' where social media users called Sessoms a 'political prisoner'

By Ishani Ghose Updated On : 03:04 PST, Aug 21, 2020

New York City, 2020. https:/

artappraiser — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 02:14:39 +0000

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New York City, 2020. https://t.co/Y9NqlJYuuV
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) August 23, 2020

Operation LeGend has brought

artappraiser — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 08:04:08 +0000

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Operation LeGend has brought 40 federal agents to Memphis, made 41 arrests

By April Thompson @ wreg.com, Aug. 20

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Crime is a constant fight in the Bluff City. But since August 6, the city has had crime fighting help from the federal government’s Operation LeGend.

U.S. Attorney Mike Dunavant says the 40 new agents are working inside the multi-agency gang unit.

“We are bringing bodies. We are bringing new agents reassigned to Memphis,” said Dunavant.

He says in the last 14 days Operation LeGend has been busy.

“We have now arrested 41 people, and seven of those have been charged with federal crimes,” Dunavant said.

Those charges include an illegal immigrant in unlawful possession of a firearm, conspiracy to distribute meth, making a false statement when acquiring a firearm, bank robbery and theft from a firearms licensee.

“Those are the kind of cases we are focused on. We are focused on the trigger pullers, the shooters, the traffickers,” Dunavant said.

[....]

City councilman Martavius Jones welcomes the extra manpower but says these small arrests still don’t target bigger problems.

“It’s like throwing a grain of sand in the ocean. We are taking guns, and to me, it’s marginal numbers of guns, off the street,” Jones said. “But when they are being flooded and you can get a dime a dozen anywhere, it makes it seem like we are just a hamster on a wheel, and nothing is really getting done.”

But the U.S. attorney says there will be a long-term impact working with local law enforcement.

“We believe we have a really good model sharing information developing leads, acquiring targets and making sure we are getting the right people off the streets,” Dunavant said.

Dunavant says of the 40 federal officers dispatched to Memphis, 29 will be here permanently. The remainder will be here for 90 days to address the short-term crime surge.