Over the past 12 months almost 800 Chicagoans have been murdered.
Nearly 800. In a year. In one city: Chicago.
This may be a problem.
In tonight’s episode, Tucker interviews Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez on the murder crisis in Chicago. Highlights include:
Lori Lightfoot: “Here is where I want to be starting tomorrow. You may walk outside the immediate proximity of your house. Fresh air is important, but you may not act like the city is not in crisis.”
“According to Lori Lightfoot, the city is in crisis — a basketball crisis. Meanwhile, there’s another crisis in progress. People continue to die in huge numbers in Chicago. According to an analysis by CWB Chicago, at least 50 of these killings this year were committed by criminals who were released early on bail — they didn’t need to happen.”
“Last year in September … University of Chicago students, encouraged by faculty members, surrounded the home of the school’s provost. They occupied the street in front of her house, they shut down traffic for an entire week. They demanded disarming and disbanding the school’s police department.”
“Now, in one of those twists of irony you really have to pause to savor, those students are demanding chaperoned rides home because their classmates are getting murdered because the policies they advocated for result in death.”
“No one’s apologized, no one’s learned anything. The politicians ruining the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago demand, above all, that you worship them like gods as people die around them.”
“Under the leadership of Lori Lightfoot, the city of Chicago is flying off the rails because of the violence that is allowed to go unchecked in every community throughout the entire city.”
“When everything revolves around this spirit of ‘wokeness’ and ‘racial inequality is the root of all evil’ in everything that we do in the city of Chicago, we ignore the real problems … which is that crime and criminals are being allowed to run amok.”
“My residents deal in the real world … We’re not a bunch of eggheads trying to figure out a sociological experiment. We are blue collar people who are just trying to raise families, go to work, come home and live the American dream regardless of what color, what origin, what have you, and that’s being taken away from them daily by people who think that this is some sort of game.”
Watch the video below and tell us what you think in the comments.
