democrats, what in the hell. i mean, what in the fuck. this is supposed to be a first-world country.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-boy-shot-chicago-lawndale-20160809-story.html

Boy, 10, wounded as Chicago marks deadliest day in 13 years

Monday was the deadliest day in Chicago in 13 years, and 10-year-old Tavon Tanner got caught in the worst of the gun violence as he played with his twin sister on the porch of his Lawndale home.

It was still light outside when Tavon and his family heard gunshots down the street Monday evening. A man in his early 20s had been shot in the head at a basketball court where Tavon was not allowed to play. Two hours later, an older man was shot and killed about four blocks away.

Less than an hour later, someone fired as many as nine shots in front of Tavon's home in the 3900 block of West Polk Street, hitting the fifth-grader in the back. He collapsed as he followed his mother through the front door.

"I can’t breathe," he kept yelling, banging his fists against the floor, according to his mother, Mellanie Washington.

Washington and her sister, Harmonie Murphy, rushed to the boy's side. “He started gasping for air,” said Murphy, 33. "His eyes rolled back. … He was telling us that it was burning."

A police sergeant ran up to the porch and helped Murphy and Washington undress the boy to find where he had been shot, according to the mother and aunt. They turned him over and saw a gunshot wound to his lower back.

Tavon’s twin sister, Taniyah, sat next to him, holding his hand, trying to keep him calm, according to Washington. “Twin don’t leave me, twin don’t leave me," she kept yelling.

Tavon continued beating the floor with his hands from the pain. Then he went limp and started vomiting blood, his mother and aunt said.

The sergeant ran to his squad car and brought back a first aid bag, they said. He took out gauze and applied it to the wound, putting pressure on it until paramedics arrived and put Tavon on the stretcher and took him away in an ambulance, the family said.

Tavon was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he underwent nearly four hours of surgery, Washington said. The bullet damaged his pancreas, intestines, kidney and spleen as it entered his lower back and lodged in his chest, she said.

Doctors removed the boy's spleen and repaired the other organs but did not remove the bullet for now, Washington said. Tavon remained in critical condition and was heavily sedated.

Tavon was among 19 people shot Monday in Chicago. Nine of them were killed, marking the most homicides in a single day in the city since July 5, 2003, when 10 homicides were recorded, according to a Tribune analysis of police data.

The toll included Loreal Lucas, 61, killed on the porch of his South Side home in front of his 3-year-old great-nephew; a 24-year-old man killed as he drove a Lexus on the Southwest Side; a 44-year-old man shot dead as he stood with two friends on the South Side.

More than 2,500 people have been shot in the city so far this year, a pace of gun violence not seen here since the late 1990s. There have been at least 426 homicides.

The 11th District, where Tevon's family lives, has been hit particularly hard. The number of people shot and the number of people killed there already exceed the numbers from all of last year. The district has recorded 355 people shot and 54 homicides this year, compared with 350 people shot and 49 homicides last year.

Police reported no one in custody in any of Monday's shootings, including Tavon's.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#31145217)

actually, at the rate chicago is going, it will end 2016 with MORE murders than occurred during some years in the 90's.

which is completely insane when you think about the advances in trauma medicine and forensics over the past couple decades.

no; the variable here is BAD LEADERSHIP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#31145294)

Lib: "You're using that phrase incorrectly. It's about police brutality against black bodies."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#31145284)

i feel for rahm. if he let police go on as usual he'd just lose to some black challenger

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#31145339)

"GANGS PLOTTING TO KILL COPS"

Cops are terrified of this shit and just don't want to police anymore - especially since this new shooting case.

I also happen to think (just a theory) that El Chapo's capture had a huge impact on gang violence. Remember that El Chapo's cartel controlled the delivery of drugs in Chicago and had huge influence over the distribution. When he caught captured, there was a power vacuum and chaos ensued.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#31145704)

fucking shitlib media narratives

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#31145471)

But pound for pound, the west side is as bad or worse historically. And this year, it has been MUCH worse than the south side.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#31145679)

Per capita, it has to be West Garfield Park. 14,000 people and is on pace to see 30+ murders this year.

THere are worse blocks / streets, if you want to get even more granular. I'm a Chicago crime and geography masterman.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#31145744)

That sort of crime is very localized and can varies street by street. Also, Chinatown doesn't border on the really bad ghettos to begin with.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#32635088)

For normal people, the far northwest side, the far southwest side, most of the North Side above Fullerton.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#31145817)

i remember visiting a friend who was living at these tall apartment complexes around UIC and that seemed like a bad neighborhood

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#31145783)

Thankfully Trump is in charge.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3316631&forum_id=2#32634974)