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“On Monday night, our department and our city lost a hero when officer Enrique Martinez was shot and killed protecting the city of Chicago,” Snelling said. “Today is the first step in bringing his killer to justice.”
In mid-October, a peak of about 3,300 asylum seekers were living inside or outside police stations, though the 24th District had been clear since July 21, officials said. Mayor Brandon Johnson had pledged to move the asylum seekers to other shelters before winter, which officially begins next week.
The high-profile killings of Black people by police officers sparked a national reckoning on race issues, and in some cases generated instability across the city and increased distrust of police officers, eroding their ability to rely on community members for help.
With the Democratic National Convention less than two months away, a coalition of community organizations voiced “serious concerns” Thursday about the Chicago Police Department’s newly revised mass arrest policy.
Breaking News (UPDATED) (Post moved from 6:04 PM Thursday, 17 May) Channel 7 just broadcast a bunch of whiny Occupy people demanding the release of some protestors who were arrested last night in Bridgeport.
Breaking News Numerous e-mails telling us that Deputy Chief Johnson, brother of the indicted Commander Johnson (retired under investigation), has been removed from the Training Academy and is detailed to HQ to await whatever tales his twin is currently spinning for the Feds.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s recent campaign ad claims “she’s put more police on the streets.” But the city’s own data shows that claim is simply not true. The number of beat cops has declined.
Over the objection of Chicago’s top cop, a police officer now faces dismissal for fatally shooting a man who was holding a handgun after a foot pursuit in Garfield Park last year. On April 15, 2023, Officer Fernando Ruiz fatally shot Reginald Clay Jr., 24, following a brief foot chase in the 3800 block of West Flournoy Street.
New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said reasons for the increase of non-fatal shootings (up 69%) and robberies, many carjacking related (up 22%) in 2020, was due in part to the pandemic-impacted economy, social injustice, and divisive politics.
Two 14-year-old boys were seen trying to steal a car moments before someone shot them dead on the South Side yesterday afternoon. Chicago police said the boys were found with gunshot wounds in an alley behind the 800 block of East 89th Place around 2:27 p.m. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.