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===2020 Marxist insurrection===
===2020 Marxist insurrection===
During the Leftist uprising law enforcement officials found “mounds of bricks and bottles” that had been staged in downtown Baltimore.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mounds-of-bricks-bottles-found-in-baltimore-ahead-of-expected-george-floyd-unrest/ar-BB14TxmI</ref> Homicides are higher in 2020 than in 2019, which had the highest homicide rate on record for that city. June's killings, which eclipse those of June 2019, include a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant and her three-year-old daughter. They were gunned down in their car by the father of the woman's unborn child, according to the police.<ref>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/a-future-that-doesnt-work.php</ref>
During the Leftist uprising law enforcement officials found “mounds of bricks and bottles” that had been staged in downtown Baltimore.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mounds-of-bricks-bottles-found-in-baltimore-ahead-of-expected-george-floyd-unrest/ar-BB14TxmI</ref> Homicides are higher in 2020 than in 2019, which had the highest homicide rate on record for that city. June's killings, which eclipse those of June 2019, include a 23-year-old woman who was eight months pregnant and her three-year-old daughter. They were gunned down in their car by the father of the woman's unborn child, according to the police.<ref>https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/06/a-future-that-doesnt-work.php</ref>
==Chicago, Illinois==
[[File:Chi-riot3.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Chicago Police pelted with rocks by Democrat protesters in Grant Park, July 22, 2020.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8546473/Almost-50-Chicago-cops-injured-protesters-throw-fireworks-frozen-bottles.html</ref>]]
The last Republican mayor was elected in 1927.
In 2018, [[Chicago]] recorded 561 murders, more than the two biggest US cities - New York and Los Angeles - combined.
On May 31, 2020, Chicago saw its deadliest day in at least 60 years (records only go back to 1961), with 18 killings in a 24-hour period. Over the [[Memorial Day]] holiday - 85 people were shot and 24 killed, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab.<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52984535</ref> Mayor [[Lori Lightfoot]] said that day the city's 911 emergency call centre received 65,000 calls - 50,000 more than on an average day. White rioters assaulted a police woman.<ref>https://twitter.com/silver_report/status/1266551798057316364</ref> Mayor Lori Lightfoot acknowledged “an organized effort”. ''Chicago Business reported Lightfoot as saying,
{{quotebox-float|“There is no doubt. This was an organized effort last night,” she said. “There were clearly efforts to subvert the peaceful process and make it into something violent.”<ref>https://www.chicagobusiness.com/greg-hinz-politics/there-no-doubt-was-organized-effort</ref>}}
:A racist black woman objected to [[Arab]]s defending their [[property]] with [[AK-47]]s "if we decided to loot it".<ref>https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2020/06/09/chicago-woman-goes-ballistic-because-shop-owners-with-guns-prevent-her-from-looting/</ref> An Alderman asked Lightfoot, “Once they’re done looting and rioting, and whatever’s going to happen tonight, God help us, what happens when they start going after residents? Going into the neighborhoods? Once they start trying to break down people’s doors if they think they’ve got something," noting that there were “gang-bangers with AK-47s walking around right now, just waiting to settle some scores." When Lightfoot did not respond the Alderman added, “It’s not something you ignore. This is a question that I have.” The mayor responded, “I think you’re 100% full of sh**, is what I think.” The Alderman shot back, “No offense — F*** you, then. Who are you to tell me I’m full of sh**? Maybe you should come out and see what’s going on.”<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/06/08/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-in-expletive-filled-fight-with-alderman-over-black-lives-matter-riots/</ref> The call was recorded.
By mid 2020, year-to-date shootings eclipsed 1,508 for 2020, putting them 350 ahead of 2019. To date homicides sit at 254, placing them ahead of 2019. Important to note that the Cook County board voted in favor of defunding police. Eleven city alderman raced to the fore to demand that not a single penny of $333 million in federal dollars not go to police, and various proposals are being considered to cut current funding by more than $30 million in current spending.
[[President Trump]] offered assistance to Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Lightfoot in dealing with the [[systemic racism]] that has plagued Democrat-run Chicago for decades:
{{quotebox|"I recently read an article from the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' on June 8, 2020, “18 murders in 24 hours: Inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago,” which discussed the severe crime and lack of law and order in our Nation’s third largest city. The article details how “85 people were shot and 24 killed the previous weekend, the most in modern history in Chicago.” Your lack of leadership on this important issue continues to fail the people you have sworn to protect. I am concerned it is another example of your lack of commitment to the vulnerable citizens who are victims of this violence and a lack of respect for the men and women in [[law enforcement]]. ...
[[Violence]] and [[death]], which are disproportionately harming young [[African American]]s, are tragic and unacceptable, particularly on such a shocking scale. According to the ''Chicago Sun Times'', “shootings across the City increased by 71 percent last month,” and just this past weekend 102 people were shot in the city’s most violent weekend of the year. A 3-year old toddler was killed. More Americans have been killed in Chicago than in combat zones of [[Afghanistan]] and [[Iraq]] combined since [[September 11, 2001]], a deadly trend that has continued under your tenure....
Unlike previous Administrations of both parties, I am willing to tackle unsolved challenges. If you are willing to put partisanship aside, we can revitalize distressed neighborhoods in Chicago, together. But to succeed, you must establish law and order. The combination of crime, high State and local taxes, and onerous State and local government regulations have caused thousands of Illinoisans to flee to other States. Between 2010 and 2019, Illinois lost more of its population than any other state in the Nation. If you are interested, I am willing to ask members of my Cabinet to meet with you and help devise a plan to make Chicago safe, since a successful formula has escaped both you and your predecessors. My Administration would also welcome the opportunity to engage with you and your colleagues as you develop bipartisan policy recommendations to improve policing and make our great cities safer for all."<ref>https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-donald-j-trumps-letter-governor-illinois-mayor-chicago/</ref>}}
On July 17, 2020, BLM and Antifa rioters assaulted police with bricks, rocks, sticks, bottles, and fireworks. The police, most of whom had no helmets, were defending a monument.<ref>https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/07/17/dozens-of-blm-and-antifa-full-on-attack-police-in-chicago-police-reinforcements-make-them-regret-it/</ref> 18 people were killed and 47 wounded in drive- and walk-by shootings in one weekend.<ref name="chicago.suntimes.com">https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/6/28/21305237/chicago-weekend-shootings-gun-violence-june-26-29-2020</ref> The fatalities included a one-year-old boy riding in a car with his mother (the gunman drove up alongside and emptied his gun into the vehicle) and a 10-year-old girl struck in the head inside her home; a group of youth on the street outside her house had started shooting at another group of youth nearby. The previous weekend in Chicago, 104 people were shot, 15 fatally.<ref name="chicago.suntimes.com"/> The deceased included a three-year-old boy riding in a car with his father on Father's Day—his gangbanger father was the intended victim—and a 13-year-old girl shot in her head in her home.
The victims in these shootings are overwhelmingly black. In mid 2020, 78 percent of all homicide victims in Chicago are black,<ref name="heyjackass.com">https://heyjackass.com/category/chicago-crime-2019/</ref> though blacks are less than a third of the population. But the defund-the-police advocates and the Democratic establishment have said nothing about the growing loss of black lives.<ref name="heyjackass.com"/>
With the Defund Police movement, black people have been the victims of roughly 81 percent of the 317 murders in the first six months of 2021, virtually all black-on-black crime. They were the victims of about 70 percent of the 295 murders committed in the first six months of 2020.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/homicides-have-skyrocketed-in-these-six-democratic-cities-black-people-are-disproportionately-the-victims-data-shows_3872643.html</ref>
===Lori Lightfoot===
In May 2021 Chicago [[NBC]]5 reported mayor [[Lori Lightfoot]] refused to do interviews with white people.<ref>https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1394813036741885954</ref> The report was confirmed by Chicago [[PBS]] station WTTW.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/19/reporters-say-chicago-mayor-lightfoot-limiting-interviews-to-black-and-brown-journalists-1076308/</ref> The formal announcement said Lightfoot would only grant interviews to "Black and brown" reports. Lightfoot complained bitterly about the "whiteness and maleness" of Chicago's [[liberal media]] which had only aided in her election.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/20/lightfoot-defends-her-bigotry-slams-overwhelming-whiteness-and-maleness-of-chicago-media-outlets-1076689/</ref> ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' reporter Gregory Pratt, a [[Latino]] was granted an interview and asked the mayor's office to lift its exclusion others. When the mayor's office refused, Pratt protested the [[racist]] policy and canceled the interview. A Chicago WGN anchor and a ''[[Washington Post]]'' reporter supported the ''Tribune'''s action and called on all reporters to boycott the mayor's office racist policies.<ref>https://therightscoop.com/cancel-back-after-mayor-lightfoot-cancels-white-reporters-one-hispanic-reporter-cancels-her-in-return/</ref> The National Association of Black Journalists issued a statement: "that NABJ’s history of advocacy does not support excluding any bona fide journalists from one-on-one interviews with newsmakers, even if it is for one day and in support of activism...We have members from all races and backgrounds and diversity, equity and inclusion must be universal."<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/21/black-journalists-group-reluctantly-says-it-cannot-support-chicago-mayors-bigotry-against-white-scribes-1077398/</ref> Former Rep. [[Tulsi Gabbard]] who excoriated [[Hillary Clinton]] as "the personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic party", called upon Lightfoot to resign. "I call upon [[Joe Biden|President Biden]], [[Kamala Harris]], and other leaders of our county—of all races—to join me in calling for Mayor Lightfoot's resignation.<ref>https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2021/05/21/tulsi-gabbard-calls-on-chicago-mayor-to-resign-over-antiwhite-racism-n2589828</ref>
==Seattle, Washington==
==Seattle, Washington==