54 shot, 7 killed in Chicago weekend bloodbath after Pritzker claims Trump, National Guard not needed
By: Zoe Hussain
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Bodies are piling up on the streets of Chicago over Labor Day weekend - with 54 shot, including seven killed, as President Trump and Illinois Gov. Pritzker spar over sending the National Guard into the Windy City.
At least 32 separate shootings occurred in Chicago between Friday evening and noon on Monday, according to a review of police incident reports by ABC News.
Just hours after Trump posted a message on Truth Social on Saturday criticizing Pritzker's handling of crime in the city, at least seven people were shot around 11:10 p.m. in Bronzeville. All of the people are expected to be okay.
Trump called the governor "weak and pathetic" for dismissing the need for a National Guard presence in the Windy City in the social media post.
The president further warned "we're coming" — suggesting some sort of federal action on crime in Chicago — if Pritzker doesn't "straighten it out, FAST."
"National Guard troops or any kind of troops on the streets of an American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency - and there is not," Pritzker said of the situation in Chicago.
He also vowed to sue the Trump administration if troops are indeed deployed.
"It's an invasion with US troops, if they in fact do that," Pritzker argued. "They'll be in court pretty quickly," he added.
Mayor Brandon Johnson also ended his speech at a "Workers Over Billionaires" march on Monday with a rallying cry of "No troops in Chicago. Invest in Chicago."
Chicago had 573 murders in 2024, compared to 377 for New York City and 268 for Los Angeles. Chicago's murder rate was about 22 killings per 100,000 people — compared with seven for LA and less than five for NYC.
That's still lower than some major cities — including Detroit (32), Washington, DC, (27) and Atlanta (25).
Trump deployed thousands of federal agents and National Guard troops to Washington, DC, earlier this month as part of a sweeping crime crackdown.
Since the president declared a crime emergency in the nation's capital, violent crime has fallen by 45% - and carjackings are down a stunning 87% - when compared with the same period in 2024, DC Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser said earlier this week.
In June, Trump dispatched 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marine service members to California amid violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles.
By July 1, nearly all of the National Guard members and Marines had been removed.
The shootings include a 17-year-old girl who was inside her home when a bullet blasted through her front window and struck her arm, the outlet reported.
A 25-year-old woman was shot twice in the abdomen and once in the left leg on Friday evening. She was taken to a local hospital, where she died. A 23-year-old woman also wounded in the shooting, according to ABC7.
A 31-year-old man was also shot after being caught in the crossfire of gunmen traded gunfire from opposing vehicles, and two people were wounded while driving down a street over the weekend, authorities said.
At about 11 p.m. on Saturday, a 32-year-old man and a 29-year-old man were standing outside when a dark SUV approached the pair, and an unknown gunman exited and fired a gun at them, cops said.
The 29-year-old was struck multiple times and later died in the hospital, and the 32-year-old was hit in his right side but has now stabilized, CBS reported.
Meanwhile, at least four separate shootings have taken place since early Monday morning, leaving one 48-year-old man in critical condition, according to data from CBS News
Pritzker did signal that he is willing to accept some federal support.
"We would like [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] agents to take more guns off the streets, we would like FBI to coordinate with our local law enforcement to help catch perpetrators of crimes," the governor said. "If they would do that, we would welcome that."
"But that's not what they're planning to do," he said.
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Tell me again, how Chicago is safe?
Arvo..good grief is this a normal thing for a city that size? Melbourne or Sydney might have one or two, bit that is staggering...
Sounds almost like it is open season in Chicago...
They aren’t in the rich white neighborhoods though, so it’s not a problem to the pritzkers of the world.
All the shootings and the dim bulb Democrat Mayor pushes to make Chicago, not only a shit hole, but a SANCTUARY Shithole.
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The mayor thinks Chicago was built by slaves so rational thought isn’t his strong suit.
Thoughts & prayers ought to cover it. Nothing to see here.
I bet it’s because of all the murderous trans people. Amiright?
[✘] are [✘] you willing to admit what group is the cause of these high shooting and murder numbers.
I was hoping that obvious sarcasm would be obvious. Guess not.
Do you mean the group known as “criminals?”
So the answer to both is no.
Did you have something to say that is conversational? Or just trolling? Save us both some time.
The acceptance of disorder in the US, including levels of violence in poor neighborhoods that's near top across the world, is simply stunning. We don't have to live like this, but because most of it happens to poor people, out of sight of an incurious media, we do.
It's just 54 people being shot in a weekend. Nothing to worry about.
Today Trump definitively announced that he is sending National Guard to Chicago.
The governor and the mayor both made extensive statements following - Chicago is taking the lead in opposing this. Prtizker said he has information that the plan is to include National Guard from Texas to be used on the streets of Chicago.
Mayor Johnson said the Chicago police department has taken 24,000 guns off the streets in the past 2 years, but they cannot stop the flow from red states, mainly Indiana.
Johnson, unsurprisingly, embarrassed himself.
t they cannot stop the flow from red states, mainly Indiana.
Yet the rest of Illinois has a normal murder rate, despite almost being surrounded by red states. Clearly, "guns from Indiana" aren't creating a problem anywhere else in Illinois
I thought this was one of his strongest speeches.
The made up history about Chicago being built by slaves or the Confederatesque calls to resist the federal government appeal to you more?
How like a Democrat politician, blame the gun rather than the person behind it.
He sounds like a professional victim, blaming others for the failure.
Well damn it, I'm gonna jump on that bandwagon too. Gonna sue the Liberty Tabletop company for making the spoon that made me fat.... /s
The governor should send out his own Guard troops to block them.
but they cannot stop the flow from red states, mainly Indiana.
forget Illinois. Why do these Indiana guns only show up in certain neighborhoods? What magic do the people in Beverly have that keeps Indiana guns from murdering them that doesn’t work at all two miles away? Johnson should figure that out.
What's hilarious is that Memphis had a murder rate of 40.6 per 100,000 in 2024 but you don't hear that mentioned here or any mention of Trump sending in the troops. I wonder why? I mean, I'm sure this isn't at all political. /s
Trump and his ball sweat slurping sycophant Republicans are so fucking honest and all and this has nothing to do with implementing their fascist agenda takeover of all Democratic run cities, nope, nothing to see here...
Trump said today that Chicago is the most dangerous city in the world. There is only one American city on the top ten of such a list, and it is - Memphis.
Of course it is, but no patriotic American with more than half a brain believes anything Trump or his servile old white religious bigots say. We just have to survive another couple of years till the pendulum swings back at twice the speed and turns all his brain-dead bigot supporters into metaphorical bigot-butter to be pushed back into the nooks and crannies from where they came, hopefully to never be heard from again.
Chicago had 573 murders last year, nobody else was even close to that number.
But people in the nice neighborhoods who control Johnson are safe so...
Chicago is fine if you stay in your protected bubble areas, where cops live and patrol. But walk 15 minutes from some of those "nice" neighborhoods and you go from murder rates that are 1 in 100,000 to 147 per 100,000. The people in nice neighborhoods live their life in the safe corridors and are as likely to visit the "bad neighborhood" 10 minutes from them as someone who lives 200 miles away is.
And yet Memphis had nearly double Chicago's murder rate per capita. Still trying to claim this isn't political?
Yes, a democrat mayor in a democrat city.
There is the answer to your question.
The governor of Tennessee could order their National Guard into Memphis, and other place in his state with high crime.
Instead he sent troops to Washington DC
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And all lefties want to point at is "the stats" per 100,000. That, to me, is not only bullshit but should be looked at with the raw number of deaths.
There are Liars, Damn Liars and statisticians. If there are 3 people in a town and 1 murders another than your murder rate is 33,333 per 100,000 way worse than Chicago.
Wikipedia and a few other reputable sites disprove that "blue states" or cities have higher crime or murder rates.
Many southern states that can reliably be called "red states" frequently have cities that fall into much higher crime rates or murder rates. When Trump was asked about sending the guard to cities in these states he dodged the issue saying "maybe we will" they will be looking at it.
No matter which Trump voting state or city has higher crime or murder rates Trump will NEVER send in troops to help, if help is what you want to call this.
If this is help, then help Trump voting states and cities by demanding that the guard show up to help out.
The right wing interest isn't in doing the same thing fairly in both red or blue states and cities, it's a matter of going along with what daddy says knowing it's wrong but accepting it. All because it isn't actually "help" and they know it, it's punishment of states and cities who rejected Trump.
Who runs the city’s in the red states that are murderous shit holes? Let’s take Memphis that everyone is bitching about? When was the last time republicans were in charge of that long term shithole? The 60’s?
13% = 50%
I think this is one that Trump wins by losing. Let the lower courts say Trump can't do it under the reason he is using to justify it. Trump should just say I have to follow the court rulings. Crime continues in Chicago and the democrats rightfully get blamed and there are no protests or riots.
Then there is this democrat idiot:
" Trump is a dictator and is normalizing violence."
Stupidity like this is why I cannot take Democrats and the left seriously.
Certainly not the only one that got hooked with this.
I believe it is a non published talking point.
Kinda like a dog whistle only they can hear.