Chicago: Independence Day Weekend Sees Over 100 Shot, 21 Killed. Mayor Blames Nixon, Not Gangs

Homicide Metropolis USA lived as much as its moniker over the Independence Day weekend. Chicago accounted for between a 3rd and half of all homicides nationwide over the prolonged Independence Day weekend. With all the our bodies accounted for, gang members in Chicago accounted for 21 killed  and 89 extra wounded, per HeyJackass.com.

With the physique depend on Monday had the homicides pegged at 19, two of the wounded have since crossed the rainbow bridge.  That brings the toll to 21 useless.  Welcome to America’s Homicide Capital.

Mayor Brandon Johnson has little doubt acquired telephone calls from highly effective, influential individuals asking him to get a deal with on the violence. But regardless of the elites making an attempt to carry his ft to the fireplace, the feckless chief can do nothing however maintain press conferences filled with empty phrases, finger-pointing and excuses for his failure as a frontrunner.

On Friday, with the our bodies stacking up, Johnson stated the violence “has left our metropolis in a state of grief.” Then on Monday, when the ultimate dying toll mounted – together with the scores of these wounded in gang actions – he promised “penalties” for the perps. From WTTW:

Mayor Brandon Johnson promised “penalties” for these taking part in gun violence in Chicago following a vacation weekend during which greater than 100 individuals had been shot and 19 had been killed throughout the town…

“We have to make sure that we’re holding each single particular person accountable for the ache and trauma and torment that they’ve brought on on this metropolis,” Johnson stated throughout a press convention Monday on the Chicago Police Division’s headquarters. “There shall be penalties for the violence. We is not going to let legal exercise damage and hurt our metropolis.”

Penalties? That’s laughable proper there.

Word how Mr. Mayor didn’t say what number of suspects had been in custody with felony prices pending. There’s a motive for that. The “authorities” don’t have suspects in most of these incidents, a lot much less have police made any arrests. And even when that they had, Crew Soros’ Cook dinner County State’s Legal professional may not have filed felony prices until one in every of them tossed a root beer on her.

There shall be no penalties when suspects haven’t even been recognized, a lot much less positioned below arrest and charged.

On the press convention yesterday, Brandon Johnson ticked by means of his ordinary checklist of culprits for the gang violence. These included law-abiding gun house owners (as at all times), together with “disinvestment” within the black group, structural racism. However there was a brand new perpetrator on the block: President Richard M. Nixon. That’s proper… Brandon Johnson blames the long-deceased Richard Nixon, president 50 years in the past, for Chicago’s ills right this moment. Although Democrats have had a lock on the levers of energy within the Windy Metropolis for nearly 100 years, and the complete state of Illinois for many of a era.

Right here’s how Johnson tried to pin the woes of his dystopian metropolis on ol’ Tough Dick.

“Black dying has sadly been accepted on this nation for a really very long time. We had an opportunity 60 years in the past to get on the root causes. And other people mocked President Johnson, and we ended up with Richard Nixon,” stated Mayor Johnson, we assume no relation to the additionally now deceased, and tremendous white man President Johnson.

Regardless of championing civil rights, together with serving to safe the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Johnson’s motives could have been extra political than borne from his love of all races. After the passage of the act, he reportedly stated, “I’ll have these n[deleted] voting Democratic for 200 years.” You may fill within the clean.

Some liberals and historians debate whether or not he really stated that, however even quite a few black historians admit such an announcement would’ve been according to how he spoke and thought. What isn’t disputed is what he really referred to as the invoice that will grow to be the Civil Rights Act. Johnson referred to as it the n[deleted) bill.” And that tidbit of history is from the woke MSNBC itself.

And if Mayor Johnson is in need of a little history lesson given the increasingly poor quality of public education in the past few generations.  While Nixon may not have openly courted black voters like Johnson and the Democrats did, but he did a lot to expand economic and educational opportunity for black Americans.

This from the Richard Nixon Foundation:

When he reached the presidency, Nixon sought to expand economic opportunities for African Americans by ending discrimination in the work place, through the endowment of black colleges with federal funds, and helping them find meaningful employment through job assistance programs, and promotion of entrepreneurship — an initiative called “Black Capitalism.”

In 1970, perhaps the hall mark of the Nixon administration’s Civil Rights policies, Nixon sought to end the decades old and egregious tradition of segregated schools for black and white children throughout the nation, predominantly in the Southern states.

But Mayor Johnson isn’t worried about real history, he simply wants to throw blame wherever he can to take the attention off his own sad record.

Yesterday, after 108 people were shot citywide during the holiday weekend, Mayor Brandon Johnson blamed Richard Nixon for the city’s intractable violence.

Last night, the Richard Nixon Foundation blasted Johnson’s statement.https://t.co/selTktEzg2

— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) July 9, 2024

Who does the mayor studiously avoid mentioning?Who didn’t the mayor blame? He didn’t blame the gangs committing the violent crime in his city.  After all, the gangs and the politicians running Chicago (and indeed the Democrats running the Illinois General Assembly) have an unholy alliance.  The gangs turn out the votes.  The politicians turn out “violence prevention” funding that makes its way back to the gang members in the form of programs like “violence interrupters” which pay $200 a day to “justice-impacted” criminals and gang bangers to supposedly stop shoot-outs before they happen.  Like that’s working so well.

But wait, it gets worse.

Not only is the mayor and his pals running Chicago (and the state of Illinois) not doing anything to make things better, they are actively working to make things worse. In Chicago, Johnson and his fellow radicals plan to do away with the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system that relays locations of gunfire to police in seconds. This allows cops, when available, to show up promptly and sometimes even make arrests. But ShotSpotter is racist, you see. Why? Because simply reporting the facts is somehow racist.

Not only that but these same radical “Criminal justice reformers” want to do away with traffic stops. If you guessed because of racism, you win a free cookie. CWB Chicago has more:

CHICAGO — With the ShotSpotter gunfire detection system soon to be removed from Chicago’s streets, so-called “reform” activists are turning their attention to another tool police find useful: traffic stops.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said in May that her office is developing a policy not to prosecute gun, theft, and drug charges stemming from certain traffic stops. Foxx said her staff would refuse to file charges in most cases if evidence was found during a traffic stop for missing license plates, expired registrations, and other minor infractions. She called the anticipated change “a public safety enhancement effort.”

“Armed with data, armed with the knowledge that these stops have not significantly or in any way reduced violence in our city, [my office] determined that it was time to take a look at this challenge and see if we may mannequin a greatest follow that we’ve seen in different jurisdictions,” Foxx advised the Solar-Instances.

So whereas Mayor Brandon Johnson and his pals say “We is not going to let legal exercise damage and hurt our metropolis,” their actions communicate lots louder than their phrases.