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Hawkins: Democrats Mum as Bodies Stack up in Gun-Controlled Chicago

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By Awr Hawkins

Democrats who lined up to push gun control after the shootings in Virginia Beach, Tree of Life Synagogue, and Parkland, remain conspicuously silent as 40-plus individuals are shot weekend after weekend in Chicago.

To be clear, the lost lives at Virginia Beach (12 killed), the Tree of Life Synagogue (11 killed), and Parkland (17 killed), are not to be downplayed in any way. Yet they also ought not be exploited. Nevertheless, Democrats line up for camera and microphone time after these attacks–or go on a Twitter binge–in hopes of using the events to push even more gun control.

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These same Democrats remain almost unanimously mum as gun control fails to curb the mayhem and bloodshed in Chicago. Even thought he death numbers in Chicago are without equal.

Think about it–The Chicago Tribune reported 437 murders in Chicago in 2011, 506 in 2012, 420 in 2013, 416 in 2014, and 468 in 2015. Breitbart News reported 800 fatalities from shootings in 2016. And the devil is in the details, as there were nearly 4,400 shootings — fatal and non-fatal combined — in gun-controlled Chicago during 2016.

And consider the more recent past. At least 56 were shot, four fatally, in gun-controlled Chicago during the weekend of June 28–30, 2019. Breitbart News reported that at least 66 were shot, five killed, over Fourth of July Weekend 2019. And at least 41 were shot, nine fatally, over the weekend of July 12-14, 2019.

Gun control is inhumane. And ignoring the failures of gun control in Chicago, while trying to exploit other attacks around the country for the purposes of more gun laws, is beyond the pale.

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(HOOD RATS AT WORK THIS WEEKEND IN CHICAGO) – 3 dead, at least 16 hurt in city shootings, including 5 attacked in South Side drive-by

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By Deanese Williams-Harris

Three men were killed, and at least 16 other people were wounded in city shootings since Friday evening, including five shot in a single attack in the Gresham neighborhood, Chicago police said.

In that shooting, shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday, the five people were shot in the 7900 block of South Loomis Boulevard in the South Side’s Gresham neighborhood.

Police said a group was gathered on a sidewalk when a gray sedan pulled up, and someone opened fire. A 29-year-old man was shot in the chest and taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. A 31-year-old man was also taken to Christ Medical Center in critical condition with a wound to the back and chest. A 27-year-old man was shot in the right leg along with a woman, 24, who was shot in the hip; both were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where their conditions were stabilized. A fifth victim, a 37-year-old man, suffered a graze wound to the wrist but refused treatment, police said.

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Of the homicides, the most recent happened shortly after 3:30 a.m. Saturday in the 1600 block of South Loomis Street on the Lower West Side in the Pilsen neighborhood, police said.

The unidentified victim, a 36-year-old man, was found outside on a back porch with several gunshot wounds to the body. Witnesses said they heard shots and found the man unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

About 2:20 a.m. Saturday, George Bingham was slain on the West Side in the East Garfield Park neighborhood in the 2800 block of West Washington Boulevard, said police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

 

Witnesses reported hearing shots and seeing a man lying on the ground next to a 2008 Chrysler minivan. Bingham, 57, was struck in the back of the neck and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Bingham lived in the 7500 block of South Parnell Avenue, the medical examiner’s office said.

 

Raymont A. Hicks, 31, was shot about 6 p.m. Friday in the first block of East 87th Street in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side. Witnesses told police someone in a black sedan fired shots at the victim before fleeing the scene, police said.

Hicks, of the 200 block of East 87th Street, suffered wounds to the chest and head, and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the medical examiner’s office and police.

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In other shootings:

  • Around 6:25 a.m. Saturday, a 21-year-old man was shot multiple times in the lower back and lower extremities by someone who approached him and fired shots in the 4900 block of West Superior Street in the West Side’s South Austin neighborhood, police said. He was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious condition.
  • About 5:55 a.m., two men told police that someone in a blue SUV fired shots at them in the 12300 block of South State Street, hitting them both. The two men got themselves to Roseland Community Hospital but were later transferred to Stroger. The older victim was in good condition with a gunshot wound to the hand, and the younger victim was in serious condition with a wound to the abdomen, police said.
  • Shortly after 5:20 a.m., three people were shot in the 5100 block of West Chicago Avenue on the West Side in the South Austin neighborhood. A 38-year-old man walked into a firehouse on Chicago Avenue with wounds to his left arm and chest. He was treated by paramedics and was later taken to Stroger Hospital, where he left. Another two victims, 29 and 39, were taken to West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park. Both had gunshot wounds to the legs and were in good condition. The younger of those victims also left the hospital. Police said all three victims were uncooperative.
  • About 3:20 a.m. on the Far South Side, a 30-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman were shot while sitting in a vehicle in the 12000 block of South Wallace Street in the West Pullman neighborhood. A gunman on foot approached the vehicle and fired shots into a passenger side window. The man was shot several times in the arms and torso, and ran to the 12100 block of South Normal Avenue, where he was found by police. The woman stayed inside the car and suffered wounds to the arms and the legs. Both victims went to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where their conditions were serious but had stabilized, police said.
  • Just before 3 a.m., a 40-year-old man was shot in the 2800 block of West Congress Parkway in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. Witnesses said a man, possibly wearing a white tank top, fled the scene shortly after shots were fired. The victim suffered wounds to the abdomen and was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.
  • About 2:30 a.m., a 25-year-old woman was on the sidewalk gathered with friends in the 2000 block of West 69th Street in the South Side’s West Englewood neighborhood when someone on foot approached from a gangway and opened fire. The woman suffered a wound to the leg and was taken in good condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center, police said.
  • Shortly after 5 p.m. Friday, a 22-year-old man was wounded in the 4000 block of West Madison Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side. Police said the victim was on the sidewalk when someone exited a gray vehicle and opened fire in his direction. The man was shot in the right hip and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in good condition.

Police reported no arrests in any of the attacks.

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(HOOD RAT AT WORK) – Chicago Mayor Blocks ICE from Police Database Before Raids

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By Joshua Caplan

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) said Wednesday that the Windy City has made moves to bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from accessing its police databases amid reports of potential raids in more than 10 major U.S. cities slated for Sunday.

“They will not team up with ICE to detain any resident. We have also cut off ICE access from any CPD databases and that will remain permanent,” Lightfoot said. “Chicago is and will always be a welcoming city that will never tolerate ICE tearing our families apart.”

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In a statement to the Chicago Tribune, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the city’s Citizen and Law Enforcement Analysis and Reporting (CLEAR) database will not be available to ICE officials, though several federal government agencies will still have access.

“All other federal agencies still have access to these systems, as sharing this information is crucial to active criminal investigations in which we are partnering with federal agencies along with intelligence sharing functions that are vital to national homeland security functions,” Guglielmi stated.

Appearing Sunday on CBS News, Ken Cuccinelli, Acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director said ICE is prepared to remove approximately one million illegal aliens with final orders for deportation. “[ICE agents are] ready to just perform their mission which is to go and find and detain and then deport the approximately one million people who have final removal orders,” he said. “They’ve been all the way through the due process and have final removal orders. Who among those will be targeted for this particular effort or not is really just information kept within ICE.”

Sunday’s expected raid will target at least 2,000 illegal residents.

Last month, President Donald Trump called off planned raids to deport roughly 2,000 illegal aliens with final deportation orders after details of the operation were leaked to the Washington Post.

Thomas Homan, the former Director of ICE, suggested Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan was responsible for the leak, which prompted the operation’s delay.

A Harvard/Harris survey shows a majority of Americans back plans to deport illegal aliens if Congress fails to act. More than 8-in-10 Republican voters support the move, while and more than 5-in-10 swing voters agree with it.

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Cocktail Bar Worker Spits on Eric Trump in Chicago

Secret Service took a cocktail bar employee into custody after he spat at Eric Trump.

By Richard Moorhead

Eric Trump, the President’s oldest son, was spat on by a bar worker during a visit to the city of Chicago on Tuesday night.

Trump was patronizing an establishment called ‘The Aviary’ where he was attacked by an employee of the business.

Sources describe the event as a young woman approaching Trump, expressing anti-Trump political sentiment, and spitting at him. Secret Service took action and detained the woman, and it’s said that she was later released without being charged with a crime.

Chicago Police were seen on the scene shortly after the incident.

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In a statement to Breitbart News, Eric Trump described the incident as an example of the left’s political intolerance and blatant hostility to those who disagree with their vision for society.

“It was purely a disgusting act by somebody who clearly has emotional problems. For a party that preaches tolerance, this once again demonstrates they have very little civility. When somebody is sick enough to resort to spitting on someone, it just emphasizes a sickness and desperation and the fact that we’re winning.”

The perpetrator of the lowball and profane attack is yet to be named, and will perhaps remain anonymous, since criminal charges don’t appear to being pending. Eric Trump was described as declining to press charges against the woman who spat in his face.

The left will settle at nothing to create a potent environment of hostility for those who stand in the way of their dream of total societal and cultural control.

 

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Cops release bodycam footage of actor Jussie Smollett in noose after ‘attack’ (VIDEO)

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The Chicago Police Department has released body cam footage from the morning after Jussie Smollett’s alleged attack, showing the actor still wearing a noose around his neck which he claimed was used in the assault.

The footage was filmed in the ex-Empire actor’s Chicago home back in January at 8:45am local time, some seven hours after he was allegedly subjected to a racist and homophoic attack in a nearby street.

READ MORE: Grand jury indicts Jussie Smollett on 16 counts for faking ‘racist & homophobic’ attack on himself

The bodycam captured the officers entering the home and speaking to Frank Gatson, who introduces himself as the actor’s “creative director,” while Smollett can be seen wearing a thin white rope around his neck.

“Do you want to take it off or anything?,” the police officer asks, referring to the noose. Smollet replies: “Yeah I do, I just wanted you to see it.” The officers are asked to switch off their cameras shortly after.

The video is part of hundreds of files released by the Chicago PD after a judge ordered a special prosecutor to examine the handling of Smollett’s accusation. The actor could face a fresh criminal prosecution for his role in the saga, depending upon the outcome of the investigation.

Smollett claimed he was randomly attacked, punched, and doused in bleach by two masked men who he claimed made reference to President Donald Trump’s slogan ‘Make America Great Again.’ 

READ MORE: Smollett sued by Chicago for ‘refusing to reimburse’ costs of ‘staged’ hate crime

The incident sparked widespread outcry amongst the LGBTQ community, African-Americans, and some Democratsas well as the Hollywood elite. However, two weeks later the tables turned when two brothers, Abel and Ola Osundairo, arrested for carrying out the attack, said the entire thing was orchestrated and paid for by Smollett.

Three weeks after the ‘attack’ Smollett himself was arrested and charged with filing a false police report. At the time Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Smollett “took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career.”

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READ MORE: ‘We don’t have hate for anyone’: Nigerian brothers sue Jussie Smollett’s lawyers for defamation

A month later the episode took yet another unexpected turn when all charges against the then-fired actor were unceremoniouslydropped in lieu of forfeiting his $10,000 bond and carrying out community service.

Smollett continued to maintain his innocence, but the drama didn’t end there. In March, Chicago Police ordered him to pay $130,000 to cover the cost of investigating the case. When Smollett refused, the amount was tripled in a lawsuit filed by the city in April. Smollett’s legal team is also facing litigation, this time from the Osundairo brothers, who claim their reputation was damaged in the melee.

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IL Sen. Taunts Gun Owner: Forget the Fine, Maybe We’ll Just Take Your Firearms

By AWR HAWKINS

Illinois State Sen. Julie Morrison (D) taunted a concerned gun owner during a town hall by telling him she might forgo fining him and simply confiscate his firearms.

The exchange was caught on video by the Illinois State Rifle Association and was tied to proposed fines for keeping commonly owned semiautomatic firearms in one’s home.

The concerned gun owner pointed to SB107 and said the purpose of it was “to take away [his] semiautomatic firearms.”

Morrison then interjected that the purpose was not to take them, but to prevent any future sales.

The gun owner responded by pointing out that the ban on future sales included a fine for current owners who did not hand their guns over. He said, “You want me to turn them over to the state police unless I pay a fine for each firearm and register them, then I get to keep them.”

Morrison concurred, saying, “Okay.”

The gun owner then asked, “If I get to keep it–if I pay a fine and register it–then, how dangerous is it in the first place and why do you need to ban it all?”

People in attendance applauded the gun owner’s point and once applause died Morrison said, “Well, you just maybe changed my mind. Maybe we won’t have a fine at all, maybe it’ll just be a confiscation and we won’t have to worry about paying the fine.”

NRATV’s Cam Edwards commented on the exchange that drew Sen. Morrison into the light, where she openly talked confiscation. He described it as part of a larger “push-back” characterized by Second Amendment Sanctuary declarations in southern counties in Illinois.

Edwards said, “It’s been interesting to see this push-back in Illinois. Obviously, over the last few years we’ve seen a lot of counties outside of the Chicago-land area have been very vocal in pushing back. But I’ve got to tell you, I’ve been really impressed by the number of gun owners in northern Illinois…who have been speaking out.”

 

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BOTH COMEY AND BRENNAN VOTED COMMUNIST WHILE COLD WAR WAS RAGING

Both Comey And Brennan Voted Communist While Cold War Was Raging

Both voted for Communist Party candidates

Zero Hedge – MAY 16, 2019

The heads of Obama’s FBI and CIA both voted for communists during the Cold War, yet were somehow able to move up the ranks within the same US intelligence community that had spent decades fighting that very ideology.

Journalist Paul Sperry noted on Wednesday that former FBI Director James Comey admitted in a 2003 interview to having voted communist before casting his ballot for Jimmy Carter in 1980.

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“In college, I was left of center,” Comey told New York Magazine, and through a gradual process I found myself more comfortable with a lot of the ideas and approaches the Republicans were using.” He voted for Carter in 1980, but in ’84, “I voted for Reagan—I’d moved from communist to whatever I am now. I’m not even sure how to characterize myself politically. Maybe at some point, I’ll have to figure it out.”

Of note, Comey’s wife and four daughters were all giant Hillary Clinton supporters who wanted her to win “really badly.”

Former CIA Director John Brennan, meanwhile, admitted in 2016 to voting communist in the 1970s. When asked at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s annual conference whether past activism would create a barrier for diverse candidates who want to enter the intelligence community, Brennan said that he was forced to admit to voting for communist Gus Hall for president in 1976, according to CNN.

“I froze, because I was getting so close to coming into CIA and said, ‘OK, here’s the choice, John. You can deny that, and the machine is probably going to go, you know, wacko, or I can acknowledge it and see what happens,” CNN quoted Brennan as saying.

Brennan (who was sworn in as CIA director on a draft of the US Constitution, without the Bill of Rights, instead of a Bible) said that while he had voted Communist, he wasn’t an official member of the Communist Party – and was relieved that he had been accepted into the CIA.

“I said I was neither Democratic or Republican, but it was my way, as I was going to college, of signaling my unhappiness with the system, and the need for change. I said I’m not a member of the Communist Party, so the polygrapher looked at me and said, ‘OK,’ and when I was finished with the polygraph and I left and said, ‘Well, I’m screwed.‘”

“So if back in 1980, John Brennan was allowed to say, ‘I voted for the Communist Party with Gus Hall‘ … and still got through, rest assured that your rights and your expressions and your freedom of speech as Americans is something that’s not going to be disqualifying of you as you pursue a career in government,” the former CIA Director concluded.

So two of President Obama’s spy chiefs voted communist, while Obama was influenced by the likes of radicals Bill Ayers, Saul Alinsky and his pastor – Jeremiah ‘God damn America’ Wright. Weeks before he died of a sudden heart attack at the age of 43, journalist Andrew Breitbart claimed to have a videos that would expose Obama as a communist radical.

None of the above sounds very “America First”…

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Chicago Newspaper Uses Antifa-Linked Sources – Portrays Crooked State’s Attorney Kim Foxx As “Victim”

by Jacob Engels April 30, 2019

The Chicago Sun-Times published a story on April 27th attacking the Proud Boys, a far-right men’s group led by a person of color, in a desperate attempt to conflate the group with actual racists who showed up to protest crooked State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for her handling of the Jussie Smollett hate-hoax.

Writers Tom Schuba and Matthew Hendrickson authored the write-up, which relied on sourcing from several individuals with ties to alt-left groups like Antifa. In it, they paint the Proud Boys in the same light as actual confirmed racist groups like Identity Evropa. They cite a random Twitter account, Panic! at the discord, which is known to doxx alleged racists on Twitter, a practice that is against the platforms terms and services.

Throughout the propaganda piece, the duo claim that the Proud Boys are basically indistinguishable from dangerous racist groups, but fail to recognize that the group is led by an Afro-Cuban entrepreneur and populated with a large share of minorities in their ranks. This is a tired game that mainstream media hacks like Shuba and Hendrickson play, where anyone who doesn’t adopt the Antifa world-view is somehow a “Nazi” or “evil racist.”

The protest documented in the article from the Chicago Sun-Times follows the police union organized demonstration against Kim Foxx, who famously dropped over a dozen charges against washed up Empire actor Jussie Smollett related to his faking of a hate crime against himself several months ago. The protest was attended by a wide-variety of groups, including the Proud Boys. The entire article’s intended purpose seems to paint the majority of people protesting Ms. Foxx as racists, therefore lending her victim status with an extended on-the-record quote from the corrupt State’s Attorney.

While Shuba and Hendrickson go to great lengths to condition readers into believing that the Proud Boys are “just like” actual suspected racists who showed at the event, their thesis is incredibly thin and littered with so-called evidence from disgraced organizations like the SPLC. The SPLC has been exposed by former high-level employees who document how the organization maintains a racist work environment, all the while labeling anyone to the right of Karl Marx as “racist” or “extremist.”

They even printed an unverified quote from cop-hating alt-left political activist Tom Rainey, detailing a supposed encounter he had with a member of the Proud Boys. They did so describing Rainey as an anti-fascist activist who was allegedly swatted at by a member of the Proud Boys, yet fail to disclose Rainey’s history of assaulting police officers during a violent anti-cop demonstration in 2017. Mr. Rainey, like the Antifa linked Twitter account used for source material in the Chicago Sun-Times article, has been known to associate with dangerous alt-left groups in the Chicago-area.

Both Shuba and Hendrickson refused to respond to a series of questions about their alleged associations with radical alt-left groups, failing to deny on record any affiliations or relationships they may have with organizations like Antifa. They also failed to respond to a questions about their “off-the-clock” relationships with violent anti-cop activist Tom Rainey.

Similarly, their editors failed to explain why the Chicago Sun-Times has deemed an Antifa linked Twitter account, the SPLC and Mr. Rainey as credible sources. The writers and editors refused to explain why they spent such a great deal of time attacking the Proud Boys, and more importantly, why they failed to disclose that the group is led by a person of color and count a significant amount of minorities in their membership.

Antifa was exposed yesterday for allegedly conspiring with Mexican drug cartels to traffic firearms across the border in an attempt to foment a violent insurrection in response to President Trump’s hard-line immigration policies.

Local news coverage of the write-up feature a photo of Proud Boys with the fear-mongering headline “White Nationalists Target Chicago,” with Schuba again failing to disclose that the Proud Boys are led by a person of color and have a history of standing against actual racism during his appearance on Chicago’s WCIU.

Tarrio pointed to a recent interaction members of the Florida chapter of the group had with Whoopi Goldberg, where they exchanged in a peaceful dialogue outside her Sarasota, FL event, which he says shows how his group and members of the MAGA movement are able to engage in peaceful dialogue with political opponents instead of resorting to violence like Chicago Sun-Times source Tom Rainey.

“We do not stand for racism of any kind. We love the hell out of America and what it means to be an American. Defending western values is our top priority. Socially awkward soyboys like Shuba and Hendrickson have to hide behind their roles as journalists in attempt to avoid responsibility for their lies. When these types of people are confronted in person or in the court through legal means, it’s amazing how cowardly they become.”

At the time of publishing, the Chicago Sun-Times has failed to respond to multiple requests for comment.

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