Another Chicago Murder

[Meathead]

Lovely. 7/11 being sued. Hard to watch:
Family sues 7-Eleven after Chicago man struck and killed during altercation

 

[bucs90]

Dirt bag lawyer suing because the 7-11 security didnt jump into the fight...that was happening on the sidewalk and roadway...NOT in the 7-11.

We need a genocide against fucking ambulance chasing lawyers.

 

[Meathead]

The guy who ran up and stole the knocked-out victims wallet was especially hard to watch.

You can see how much black lives matter.

 

[Yousaidwhat]

Why stop at suing 7-11.

Sue the contractor who built the store. The company that paved the parking lot. The electrician for the poor lighting. Etc.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Sad for the family for losing its BMW but 7-11 is not responsible, nor the taxi company.

 

[WillowTree]

Aww. But don't chase them.

 

[waltky]

Mother's Day weekend a violent one in Chicago...

Chicago Has Violent Mother's Day Weekend
May 9, 2016 - Mother’s Day weekend saw eight people killed and 43 wounded by gun violence in Chicago, the most violent weekend in the city since the end of September, according to an analysis of Tribune data.

At least 1,225 people have been shot in Chicago this year as violence continues at a pace not seen in the city since the 1990s, according to data kept by Tribune and police. This past weekend’s shootings were spread across the city, from the Roseland neighborhood to the south to West Rogers Park to the north. Two people were shot on Chicago highways, including a 35-year-old man who died after being shot in the back on Lake Shore Drive. The weekend’s youngest homicide victim was 16-year-old Nathan Hicks, who was shot in the chest as he stood on a sidewalk in East Garfield Park. The oldest was 58-year-old Andres Rivera, killed at his dinner table in Archer Heights when a bullet pierced the front door and hit him in the head, police said.

A member of the Chicago Police Department works the scene of a fatal shooting on the 5200 block of South Kolin Avenue on May 7 in Chicago.​

In just 3 ½ hours early Saturday, a 30-year-old man was killed and 14 other people were wounded — the equivalent of someone shot every 14 minutes. From Friday evening to Saturday morning, two people were killed and 25 were wounded; from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning, three were killed and 15 were wounded. On Sunday morning the pace began to slow, and six people were shot, three fatally. The burst of violence comes on the heels of a new poll showing a wide disparity in how whites and blacks in Chicago view the safety of their neighborhoods. Many of the shootings over the weekend occurred in predominantly black areas.

According to the poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the New York Times, 41 percent of black respondents felt “not safe at all” or “not too safe” compared to 17 percent of white respondents. Forty-four percent of blacks rated their neighborhoods as a poor place to raise their children, compared to 16 percent of whites. Asked how likely it is that a young person in their neighborhood would be a victim of crime, 49 percent of blacks said very likely compared to 19 percent of whites.

Mother's Day Weekend a Violent One in Chicago | Officer.com

 

[waltky]

Chicago - more deadly than war...

2017: Chicago Homicides Outnumber U.S. Military Casualties 18 to 1
January 2, 2018 | There were 664 homicides in Chicago in 2017 and, for comparison, 37 casualties in the U.S. military in its myriad operations around the globe. That's according to data from the Chicago Tribune and from the Department of Defense's press office.

The Chicago deaths are for the period Jan. 1, 2017 through Dec. 31, 2017; the military deaths are from Jan. 1, 2017 through Dec. 22, 2017, which is the latest update on casualties by the DoD posted so far. (There may have been a few more military casualties in December.) From the data available, it shows that Chicago suffered 17.9 times more homicides than the U.S. military worldwide -- combat and non-combat related deaths -- last year. For Chicago, 664 homicides -- murders by shooting or other means (not including suicides) -- averages to 1.8 homicides every day of the year.

A U.S. soldier firing a hand-held rocket launcher in Afghanistan.​

For the U.S. military, some of the deaths were combat related and some were non-combat related. For instance, the first death, on Jan. 7, 2017, was a non-combat related incident. Spc. Isiah L. Booker, of Cibolo, Texas, who was supporting Operation Inherent Resolve, died in the incident, which is under investigation. On Jan. 29, 2017, Chief Special Warfare Operator William "Ryan" Owens, 36, of Peoria, Ill., died in "the Arabian Peninsula of Yemen, of wounds sustained in a raid against al-Qaida," said the DoD.

A chart from 2016 comparing casualties in Iraq (4,504) and Afghanistan (2,384) with homicides in Chicago (7,916) from October 2001 through Sept. 6, 2016.​

On April 8, 2017, Staff Sgt. Mark R. De Alencar, 37, of Edgewood, Md., was killed in the Nangarghar Province of Afghanistan when "his unit came in contact with enemy forces using small arms fire during combat operations," reported the DoD. U.S. troops have been fighting in Afghanistan since October 2001, more than 16 years ago. U.S. troops have been in Iraq since March 2003, more than 14 years ago. The Chicago homicides are monitored and documented by the Chicago Tribune staff 24 hours a day, according to their website, "Crime in Chicagoland."

2017: Chicago Homicides Outnumber U.S. Military Casualties 18 to 1