Honestly, those are typical numbers in Chicago right now and I think they were down from Father's Day weekend, IIRC.
Totally out of control here. Didn't help that the mayor shit on her own cops and that she and the governor were marching around in support of these "causes" and did nothing to stop the rioting, and that the Chief of Police was preaching love while the city was literally burning and looters were running uncontested through it like a daily version of The Purge. They have completely lost control of the situation, bent the knee to the horde and crapped on the cops.
What people seem to forget, as it requires actually remembering something and being able to see around the most basic of corners, is that, in the wake of Freddy Gray, Baltimore cops slowed their roll waaaay down. The result was a spike in violent crime, including murders, so the result was very literally that people died as a result.
The same is happening here, I have little doubt. The esteemed Governor also emptied the prisons here to protect the prisoners from Covid as an added bonus.
Going to be a bloody effin summer in Chicago. And it lies at the feet of the Governor and Mayor and Chief of Police, who collectively stood by and watched the city burn so they could appear all woke. People will die because of those decisions as crime will rise. Zero doubt about it.
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