This is why they pay him the big bucks folks. Thomas Friedman wants the viewers of Face the Nation to believe that Rahm Emanuel decided to leave the White House and run for mayor of Chicago because of some meanies on social media and blogs. I guess all of that went away for him once he was mayor instead of Obama’s chief of staff.
This was during yet another of the countless discussions by our beltway Villagers about how our the Republicans in Congress might have cooperated with President Obama if he’d just learned how to schmooze with them and kiss their butts a little more, like President Johnson did back in the day. Yeah, that would have made all the difference with this crop of Republicans we’ve got in office today. And then we’re treated to this nonsense by Friedman:
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Minority Report Is Here: Chicago Residents Being Visited Based on Pre-Crime Surveillance List https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwdoUnamqIq-_pisxrLORQvdv9Nm3UD95H8VKgN08dixsYXsmJoBKM7HDLKS5_tBtKJwJ9eHs3wKzye2vEkf7DNuW9ey8Py3XeTLKfJMVki_0-XMyaMOecXgAcOrPjs1oohAe4EgXlP5Bo/s1600/hotspots.jpg
As we look around at the Police State being built across the world, combined with enhanced mind control techniques, it is easy to draw direct parallels with books like 1984 and Brave New World. It’s almost as if these books formed a clear blueprint for anyone seeking control over large populations.
With the quickening pace of technological advancement it is no surprise to see “ideas” become reality quicker than ever before. Philip K. Dick explored the concept of pre-crime in his short story “The Minority Report” in 1956, but it wasn’t until Steven Spielberg offered it on the big screen as Minority Reportin 2002 that the audience got a true look at a potential day-to-day existence under corporate and government data management and control.
We are now at the point where “Minority Report” is being used as a sound description of current technological applications, even in mainstream news, which means that the future is actually the present. Below you will find 10 signs that we have now entered the world depicted in fiction.
The latest news from Chicago only adds to this list, as police are moving beyond simply possessing the technology and are now putting it into effect.
Chicago’s “Heat List” is an index of approximately 400 people who have been identified by a computer algorithm as being future threats to commit violent crime. Without having actually committed a crime, some of those on the list are beginning to get visits from Chicago police warning them that they are already being watched:
When the Chicago Police Department sent one of its commanders to Robert McDaniel’s home last summer, the 22-year-old high school dropout was surprised. Though he lived in a neighborhood well-known for bloodshed on its streets, he hadn’t committed a crime or interacted with a police officer recently. And he didn’t have a violent criminal record, nor any gun violations. In August, he incredulously told the Chicago Tribune, “I haven’t done nothing that the next kid growing up hadn’t done.” Yet, there stood the female police commander at his front door with a stern message: if you commit any crimes, there will be major consequences. We’re watching you.
Chicago is apparently considering this to be part of “policing in the 21st century.” A report from The Verge explains how Chicago has taken the lead in predictive behavior police tech:
In 2009, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) made millions of dollars in grants available for any police department with a burgeoning predictive program. Police all over the country applied to tap into those NIJ dollars. The big winner was Chicago; its combination of headline-making homicide rates and already established data- and tech-focused policing made it a perfect fit. The CPD received more than $ 2 million to test two phases of its experimental program.
Though it took awhile to get started in earnest (staff turnover and internal politics in 2011 and 2012 stalled the project), last year the CPD’s predictive program picked up steam. One man behind that progress was Miles Wernick.
Wernick is the Motorola professor and director of the Medical Imaging Research Center at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago. He says he’s been doing predictive analysis work since the 1980s, when he worked with the US military to recognize potential targets in the battlefield. From there he proceeded to medical imaging. A lot of his current work focuses on analysing data and brain scans to make automated diagnoses of dementias in elderly patients — not exactly police work.
These paragraphs encapsulate two of the major warnings that the alternative media has been shouting for years: namely that military tech always trickles down into local law enforcement; and, secondly, that Big Data initiatives which are heralded by the establishment as solutions in the computing and medical fields have a range of privacy-killing additional applications that affect people far beyond the initially stated reach.
Also highlighted are the same concerns that are cropping up in the area of NSA spying – association is an assumption of tendency toward eventual guilt. Miles Wernick goes on to say:
“It’s not just shooting somebody, or being shot,” he says. “It has to do with the person’s relationships to other violent people.”
This is in line with what Andrew Papachristos, a Yale sociologist and Chicago native, calls a social networking theory. When it comes to violence, Papachristos recently told Chicago Magazine, “It’s not just about your friends and who you’re hanging out with, it’s actually the structure of these networks that matter.”
So while Wernick acknowledges that sometimes people such as Robert McDaniel — who haven’t been convicted of a violent crime — may find themselves in the wrong social networks, their presence on the list is not random.
A commander of the program stated it even more simply:
If you end up on that list, there’s a reason you’re there.
This indicates a fundamental shift in the way policing will be done in the future of America. Until now, we have been reporting on this type of technology and have been forced to speculate about its coming implementation. Well, now there is no doubt. And lest anyone believe that this is just an outcropping of Chicago’s notoriously Police State happy mentality, Police Commander Jonathan Lewin matter-of-factly states the following:
This [program] will become a national best practice. This will inform police departments around the country and around the world on how best to utilize predictive policing to solve problems. This is about saving lives.
Whether it will actually save lives is debatable. Has the No-Fly List saved lives? Have any of the other of the many lists one can be added to these days actually saved any lives? These lists are secretive and have become nearly impossible to independently verify as to how someone got on the list, if they deserve to be there; and, if not, how to get off the list … or if the lists are effective.
The Verge article linked below highlights the potential racial profiling of such policies – and indeed this has happened in the case of New York’s own low-tech Stop-and-Frisk policy.
So the verdict is out on saving lives. But one thing is for certain: the arrival of the high-tech Police State is certainly not about saving freedom, nor is it about preserving a Constitution designed to protect us from a Minority Report society.
Individual pieces of news often get lost or forgotten rather easily in today’s fast-paced news cycle, so let’s look at an aggregate of 10 mainstream news items that offer a comprehensive picture of where we are and where we are likely to be headed both from a government surveillance standpoint, as well as targeted advertising.
1.They’re watching … Japanese electronics company NEC develops ‘Minority Report’ style billboard, The Telegraph, 3/10/2010: “Engineers have developed the billboard, similar to one used in the Tom Cruise blockbuster, that uses built in cameras to instantly identify a shopper’s age and gender as they walk past. The facial-recognition system, called the Next Generation Digital Signage Solution, then offers consumers a product it thinks is suited to their demographic.”
3.The Long Eye of the Law: So Who’s Ready for a ‘Minority Report’-Style Future?Motherboard, 3/20/2013: On Monday, Japanese tech developers Fujitsu announced they had created . . . a bit of technology that can measure a person’s pulse using a camera or a computer webcam, just by analyzing that person’s face . . . It’s Minority Report-style technology, to be sure—another in a burgeoning list of tech-driven ways police could prevent crimes before they happen.”
4.Minority Report moves step closer as Lord Sugar launches face recognition adverts, The Telegraph, 7/9/2013: “The media company has launched OptimEyes, which will be used in more than 6,000 of its screens to target over 50m people in the UK, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, UAE, Oman, Kenya, Angola and South Africa. However, the majority of the screens, some 3,561, are in the UK in doctors’ surgeries, hospitals, convenience stores, petrol forecourts, Halifax banks, airports and train stations . . . The product comes less than a week after Sky Deutschland revealed it has developed technology to transfer adverts from train windows directly and silently into commuters’ heads.
6.Gesture Through News Minority Report-Style With New York Times’ Leap Motion App, Fast Company, 7/18/2013: Rather than having to flick through headlines on a touch-screen device or scroll through articles using a mouse — how antiquated! — the company’s new app allows readers to navigate through stories by motioning their hands in mid-air, with Leap Motion sensors interpreting the signals . . . The New York Times has also suggested it will give the company an opportunity to implement new advertising capabilities ‘that [will] allow brands to connect with readers using motion-controlled ad units.’”
7.Minority Report finally becomes a reality: new hi-tech video wall will let law enforcement agencies sift through data with a wave of their hand, The Daily Mail, 7/23/2013: “The hi-tech computer system behind the film Minority Report – where Tom Cruise speeds through video on a large screen using only hand gestures – is making its way into the real world. American computer experts have revealed the software has become a reality – and they hope to sell it to law enforcement agencies around the world. The interface developed by scientist John Underkoffler has been commercialized by the Los Angeles firm Oblong Industries as a way to sift through massive amounts of video and other data.”
*Also see this report on Big Data and pre-crime software.
9.Minority Report-style Advertising Coming to NYC, 247Sports, 8/8/2013: “Recycling bins data mine your smartphone when you are in proximity to tailor ads when you walk by the screen and stuff. Already in London, looking to expand to NYC and other World cities soon.”
10.Google Submits Patent For Minority Report Style Eye Tracking Device, Prison Planet, 8/15/2013: “The patent filing describes a “head mounted device”, for example hi-tech glasses, that would have the ability to track eye movement, effectively monitoring reactions to external stimuli, including changes in emotion.” From The Verge: “Google could be betting that advertisers will pay to know whether consumers are actually looking at their billboards, magazine spreads, and online ads.”
From the patent application, which was filed in May 2011:
Pay per gaze advertising need not be limited to on-line advertisements, but rather can be extended to conventional advertisement media including billboards, magazines, newspapers, and other forms of conventional print media. Thus, the gaze tracking system described herein offers a mechanism to track and bill offline advertisements in the manner similar to popular online advertisement schemes.
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The ways that we are tracked, traced, and databased are increasing every day. Some of it is arriving without our agreement and is being utilized by private corporations and governments without our explicit approval, as the recent revelations of data spying have exposed. If we have learned one thing it is that information is knowledge and knowledge is power. The power of data collection in the hands of those who wish to exert more control is not likely to halt. And all indications show that it is not enough to have logged and charted where we have been; the surveillance state wants to know where we are going.
Our Orwellian world is beginning to look nostalgic compared to what is in production. Neuroscientists in 2010 stated that they know you better than you know yourself. Meanwhile, it is being estimated that computers know to a 93% accuracy where you will be, before you make your first move. The recent major global funding of neuroscience and narrative control indicates that the final target is the human brain and every thought that resides there.
However, we ought to be aware that much of our data is willingly being given via social media and the gadgets we choose to buy. As technology continues to march forward at an exponential rate, we might do well to consider how much of this we are comfortable buying into. And if we must, should we be seeking ways to subvert the information stream?
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Eric Posner, a law professor in Chicago and a full-blown supporter of extreme authoritarian governments (he’s even written a book about why the US presidency needs more power and less respect for the Constitutional separation of powers), is, not surprisingly, a big fan of the NSA’s surveillance efforts. In the past, he’s mocked Snowden and Manning, and talked up why a government that keeps secrets is better than one that’s actually accountable to its public. In other words, he’s the perfect stooge to try to come up with a justification for Rep. Mike Rogers’ ridiculous claims that your privacy isn’t violated if you don’t know about it.
His latest article isn’t directly a justification for that statement — in fact, it doesn’t even mention it — but it’s clearly cut from the same cloth. He makes the argument that the NSA should keep spying on all foreigners in part because they spy on us (and also because he thinks we’re good at it). However, he also has a rather unique interpretation of privacy:
Mass surveillance—where emails and other communications are vacuumed up, stored in databases, and then searched for keywords—doesn’t harm anyone in itself. The problem only arises when the information is used to detain, interrogate, or harass people.
He’s using this bizarre and laughable line of argument to suggest that it’s okay when governments spy on citizens in other countries because their “intelligence agents do not have the time or inclination to harass random Americans, nor the capability as long as Americans remain in the United States.” So, in his mind: no privacy violation happens.
He doubles down on this thinking later, arguing again that if there’s no known “harm” to the individual, there’s no privacy issue at all.
Suppose that the NSA collects the emails of foreigners and conducts searches of them for keywords. Occasionally a false positive turns up, and an analyst reads someone’s email to his lover, therapist, or doctor, ascertains that the email contains no information that identifies terrorists or other security threats, and deletes it. The writer of the email never finds out, and the analyst of course has no idea who this person is. Has a human right been violated? It is hard to identify an affront to human dignity, or even a harm, any more than if a police officer overhears a snatch of personal conversation on the bus.
Of course, how hard is it to reword that paragraph just slightly, to demonstrate the insanity of Posner’s claim?
Suppose that some hackers collect the emails of Eric Posner, and conducts searches of them for keywords. Occasionally a really embarrassing one turns up, and the hacker reads about Posner’s sexual proclivities, financial difficulties, medical problems or similar such things, ascertains that the email contains no information that identifies crimes that Posner is planning to commit and deletes it. Or maybe he saves it for use at a later date. Or to share with a friend. Or a lot of friends. Posner never finds out, and even though the hacker knows who Posner is, he’ll never see him in person. Has a human right been violated? It is hard to identify an affront to human dignity, or even a harm, any more than if a police officer overhears Eric Posner talking on a bus.
Posner’s basic assumption is flat out crazy. He’s arguing that there’s no privacy violation until something bad happens with the information, not when it was seized, and not even when it was perused by human eyes — but only when something nebulously bad happens with it. That makes no sense. The violation comes much earlier. There is real harm in having your information exposed, even if you don’t know about it.
Beyond the fact that Posner is simply wrong about when the privacy violation occurs, even if we accept his wacky argument, he’s still wrong. That’s because he’s making two giant assumptions. First, that such information isn’t abused. He pretends that “national borders” protect spying on foreigners because you can’t do something legally to a person in another country. I would imagine that people killed by US drone strikes might disagree with that assessment. He also argues it’s unlikely that there would be many abuses of this information, because any abuses would harm the spying country and its spies once they came out. Pretty much all of civilized human history suggests that’s wrong. Give people power, as Posner is aching to do, and they abuse it. Over and over again. But, I guess he’s okay with that, just as long as he never finds out about it. Dictatorships and ignorance are bliss!
This article was posted: Monday, November 18, 2013 at 11:38 am
Parts of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin in path of storm
Intense tornadoes are possible, forecasters say
Football game officials in Chicago warn fans to listen for evacuation announcements
Other states likely to see winds of at least 31 mph
(CNN) — Chicago and other areas of the Midwest could see some dangerous weather Sunday, with parts of four states under a tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service.
The watch is in effect for Illinois, northwestern Indiana, northeastern Missouri, southeastern Wisconsin and Lake Michigan until 4 p.m. CT (5 p.m. ET). Many other Midwestern states are facing a wind advisory.
Forecasters said there was a possibility of intense tornadoes, large hail up to 2 inches in diameter, and damaging wind gusts — some of them greater than 80 mph in and near the watch area.
The watch area includes the greater Chicago metropolitan area. The storm could impact the NFL game at noon (1 p.m ET) between the Bears and the visiting Baltimore Ravens.
Stronger than normal winds were already blowing at Soldier Field ahead of the main brunt of the storm. Flags, temporary signs and tents outside the stadium have been removed, CNN affiliate WLS reported.
“It’s important that people listen to the messages today and if (they) hear a call that we want people to evacuate the stands, even though you may see play continue on the field, it’s time to move to safe areas,” said Soldier Field general manager Tim LeFevour.
This is a particularly dangerous situation, the National Weather Service said in a bulletin released Sunday morning.
And a tweet from the weather service in northern Indiana was even more ominous: “The worst decision you could make today is to ignore a severe/tornado warning. These storms will be nasty.”
A tornado watch means that weather conditions exist that can produce tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. Conditions are favorable for long-tracked, significant tornadoes across this watch area, the Storm Prediction Center said.
A wind advisory means sustained winds of 31 to 39 mph or gusts of 46 to 57 mph are expected, the weather service said.
CNN meteorologist Sean Morris contributed to this report
At what age do most parents believe it’s time to teach their kids about sex and relationships? Many parents believe that puberty is the time to teach them about their bodies and relations between boys and girls. Sadly, too many parents may believe there is an appropriate age, but they fail to do anything about it. Instead, they leave their kids sex education up to their friends, television, movies, music, video games, internet and public school. When parents fail to take their responsibilities seriously, they open the doors for almost anything and everything.
Those doors have been flung wide open in Chicago. The political home of Barack Obama and a plethora of other corrupt liberals, Chicago has taken one more step toward the liberal disintegration of America. Dr. Jerry Newcombe reports on OneNewNow.com that the Chicago public school board has recently mandated that sex education start with kindergartners and that they are to start receiving a minimum of 300 minutes of sex education during the school year as reported by Steven Ertelt on LifeNews.com:
“Last week, the Chicago public school system caused a furor by announcing that it thought little boys and girls in kindergarten are ready for sex ed classes. It turns out President Barack Obama, before he became president, agreed.”
Ertelt said that the actions of the Chicago public schools fulfilled a proposal made by Illinois State Senator Barack Obama in 2003 and later during his 2008 presidential campaign. In defense of his statements, Ertelt added:
“ABCNews.com published a story about what Obama told Planned Parenthood. It carried the headline: ‘Sex Ed for Kindergartners “Right Thing to Do,” Says Obama.’”
I checked a 2007 article on this and found this video of Obama talking about sex education for schools:
Note that when Obama joked about Alan Keyes accusing him of wanting to teach sex education to kindergartners, Obama didn’t deny it, but confirmed it and then tried to smooth it over by saying it needed to be scientific and age appropriate. Also notice that Obama was speaking to Planned Parenthood, whose goal is to be in every public school teaching kids that sex is okay as long as they use protection to prevent disease and pregnancy. However, if a young student does get pregnant, Planned Parenthood is also there to help provide abortions without parental knowledge or approval.
Barack Obama has been in bed with Planned Parenthood for some time now with the goal of completely undermining parental authority and Christian values. What other reason would he have for wanting kids as young as kindergarten to be taught sex education that has been designed from the flaming liberals of Planned Parenthood?
Parents, this needs to be setting off alarms if you have kids in the public school system. If your kids mean anything to you, you owe it to them and yourself to find out what they are being taught. You may be shocked with what your kids are learning. It may also explain why you may be having so many problems with them!
CHICAGO (CBS) – The Chicago area could get the first snowfall of the season on Monday, after temperatures dipped below freezing overnight.
CBS 2 Meteorologist Megan Glaros reports, although it’s a bit early for measurable accumulations of snow, it’s not out of the realm of possibility later Tuesday along I-80 in Illinois, and as far east as Porter County, Ind.
A freeze warning was in effect through 8 a.m. Tuesday, as temperatures dropped below freezing, with temperatures as low as 24 degrees in Aurora, 25 degrees in Joliet, and 26 degrees in Kankakee at 4:30 a.m.
The temperature also dropped to 30 degrees overnight at O’Hare International Airport, and 31 degrees at Midway International Airport.
Though conditions were dry for the morning rush, the evening rush could see a mix of rain and snow. The best chance of snow will be south of I-80.
Any snow that falls won’t stick around long, with high temperatures around 45 degrees in the city on Tuesday.
Temperatures likely will drop below freezing again Tuesday night.
CHICAGO (CBS) – The Chicago area could get the first snowfall of the season on Monday, after temperatures dipped below freezing overnight.
CBS 2 Meteorologist Megan Glaros reports, although it’s a bit early for measurable accumulations of snow, it’s not out of the realm of possibility later Tuesday along I-80 in Illinois, and as far east as Porter County, Ind.
A freeze warning was in effect through 8 a.m. Tuesday, as temperatures dropped below freezing, with temperatures as low as 24 degrees in Aurora, 25 degrees in Joliet, and 26 degrees in Kankakee at 4:30 a.m.
The temperature also dropped to 30 degrees overnight at O’Hare International Airport, and 31 degrees at Midway International Airport.
Though conditions were dry for the morning rush, the evening rush could see a mix of rain and snow. The best chance of snow will be south of I-80.
Any snow that falls won’t stick around long, with high temperatures around 45 degrees in the city on Tuesday.
Temperatures likely will drop below freezing again Tuesday night.
KNOX, Ind. – Indiana conversation officers said a Chicago man sold raccoons, deer and various other wildlife to markets and restaurants in Chicago’s Chinatown district for use in meals. 47-year-old Alexander Moy was arrested Monday in northwestern Indiana about 80 miles from Chicago and charged with illegally selling wildlife.
Lt. Tom Torsell of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said Moy’s arrest is the culmination of a two-year investigation during which he bought wildlife, including turtles and fish, from undercover officers, although it was not clear whether those animals were ever served to people.
The investigation was initiated after conversation officers received complaints of Moy purchasing whitetail deer from members of the public. Officials said that over the course of several months, they documented numerous wildlife sales, most of which involved venison and turtles.
After a search of Moy’s Starke County property, known as Kankakee Valley Fish Farm, conservation officers seized an array of equipment and animal species.
The charge of illegally selling wildlife carries penalties of up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $ 10,000.
Dressed in traditional Polish Highlander garb, guests pile into carriages that will bring them to the church for the official wedding ceremony.
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Dressed in traditional Polish Highlander garb, guests pile into carriages that will bring them to the church for the official wedding ceremony.
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Last weekend, a quiet block on the northwest side of Chicago appeared to be taken over by villagers from the mountains of southern Poland. That’s because a Polish Highlander wedding was getting underway. But even before the couple arrived, there was a lot of pomp, circumstance — and moving of cars.
Any time now the bridal party will be arriving and Andy Zieba — father of the bride — is ringing doorbells, asking neighbors if they can please move their cars.
“Excuse me, ma’am? You don’t know who’s the Honda belong to?” he asks.
The anxious father needs to make room because five wooden carriages and 12 horses are headed to this block of modest frame bungalows. And one of the carriages is bringing the band.
Andy Zieba and his wife, Stella, are Górale — Highlanders who grew up in the southern, mountainous region of Poland. Some aspects of this wedding celebration will be traditional Polish, other aspects will be specific to Highlanders.
The bride’s sister helps her into a carriage after the couple receives their blessings. Renee Stella Zieba and Michael John Livernois were married in Chicago.
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The bride’s sister helps her into a carriage after the couple receives their blessings. Renee Stella Zieba and Michael John Livernois were married in Chicago.
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“I was born in a village,” Andy Zieba says. “The name is Koniowka — a small village, not big village. Like 150 people.”
When Zieba was a boy, food preparation could start days before a wedding.
“Kill the pig, you know, then make a sausage. Everything, everything. The cooking in the home. They don’t have a banquet hall at that time,” he says.
Life was tough back then and a wedding was a great occasion to kick back and enjoy life. The celebration could last for as long as three days, with hundreds of people coming from near and far.
About 500 guests will attend this two-day wedding.
The guests aren’t all here yet, but two men with black hats and broad, colorful sashes draped across their chests have ridden their horses right up to the bottom step of the Ziebas’ front porch.
These are the Pytace. In the old days, they’d ride from house to house, spreading the word that a marriage was about to take place. But today their role is more ceremonial. Meanwhile, the band is crammed into the kitchen, where they’re singing in strictly Highlander dialect. And Stella Zieba, the mother of the bride, is a blur of motion, demanding that guests taste the Polish sandwiches.
This hustle and bustle is just a prelude for a tradition almost as significant as the marriage ceremony itself — the blessing from the parents.
“Well, they might tell them how much they love them and how much they’re going to miss them, and wish them the best of luck — and just the best of everything,” says Jessica Kulawiak, cousin to the bride. She’s jockeying for position, as the big moment arrives.
As guests are asked to silence their phones, the couple, now in place, kneels before their parents, who each murmur a private blessing.
Then, a Highlander musician steps forward with his own prayer.
After the blessing, it’s time for church. The bride loads into one carriage with her family, and the groom’s entourage into another.
There are fewer than a dozen of these full-tilt Highlander weddings in Chicago each year. So, it’s no wonder that neighbors like Elvis Delgado and Diane McMahon are gathered on their front lawns, cameras in hand.
“It’s like we’re all in the wedding,” Delgado says.
“It’s beautiful, it’s magnificent,” says McMahon. “And we’ve known these kids since they were little girls, so it’s even better to see them grown up and getting married.”
The carriages pull off, horses clopping, down the street.
Semecha Nunn, the grandmother of a 3-yearold shot in the face during a basketball game on Chicago’s South Side, makes an emotional plea for the violence to stop in her neighborhood.
By Elizabeth Chuck and Alexander Smith, NBC News
The grandmother of a 3-year-old who was among 13 people injured in a shooting Thursday night in Chicago made a tearful plea Friday for an end to gun violence in her city.
“It needs to stop. It needs to stop,” Semecha Nunn told reporters the day after a gunman with an assault rifle opened fire at a basketball court on Chicago’s South Side. “Y’all out here killing these innocent people, kids, parents, grandmothers, mothers, fathers — it’s got to stop.”
Three-year-old Deonta “Tay-man” Howard was in serious but stable condition after being shot in the ear after Thursday’s shooting, which occurred at about 10:15 p.m. on Thursday.
“He had an entry wound and an exit wound in his jaw. He’s heavily sedated and resting [after surgery],” the family’s pastor, Corey Brooks of Chicago’s New Beginnings Church, said.
Chicago spate of gun violence — which this week earned the city the title of being the nation’s murder capital in 2012, according to the FBI — has already shattered Nunn’s family once, just three weeks ago when Chicago suffered a deadly Labor Day weekend.
According to Brooks, Deonta’s uncle, Jerome Wood, 21, was shot and killed on Sept. 2 in what “was believed to be a retaliation shooting” — one of eight people who died that weekend and 20 who were injured.
“I just buried my son and now I’m going through something else,” Nunn said. “[God does] not send me through nothing he don’t want me to go through.”
The family does not believe there is a connection between Wood’s death and Thursday night’s shooting, but is shell-shocked after being hit by tragedy twice.
“It’s very hurtful. They’re really traumatized,” Brooks said.
Chicago’s top police officer said it was a “miracle” no one was killed Thursday night.
“A military-grade weapon on the streets of Chicago is simply unacceptable,” a visibly frustrated police superintendent Gary McCarthy said at a news conference Friday. “We should not accept assault-style weapons in our communities.”
Sixteen rounds were fired in the shooting, McCarthy said.
Chicago had more than 500 homicides in 2012, according to FBI data, more than any other American city. Chicago’s total exceeded that of New York City, which recorded 419, and Los Angeles, which saw 299. Both cities have populations greater than that of Chicago.
The latest of violence prompted Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who was in Washington, D.C., to cut short his trip and cancel a planned visit to New Jersey to stump for Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
“Senseless and brazen acts of violence have no place in Chicago and betray all that we stand for,” Emanuel said in a statement.
“The perpetrators of this crime will be brought to justice and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
Chicago police confirm that a shooting which injured 13 people is believed to have been gang-related, and that it was carried out with an assault-style rifle with a high-capacity magazine.
The shooting occurred at in Cornell Square Park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago, police spokesman Ron Gaines told NBC News.
The others wounded ranged in age from 15 to 41. Their injuries included gunshot wounds to the stomach, arm, leg, knee, wrists and buttocks. Their conditions ranged from serious to good early Friday, according to police.
Four victims were listed in a serious condition early Friday. McCarthy said all of the injuries were non-life-threatening.
“It’s a miracle in this instance that there have been no fatalities based upon the lethality of the weaponry used at the scene,” he said. “What is needed in Chicago and in cities across this country is real action on reasonable gun laws on the state and federal level.”
Authorities are saying that a gang-related shooting spree in Chicago has left 13 people shot, including a 3-year old. Across the city yesterday, more than 23 people were wounded, with 2 fatalities. NBC’s John Yang reports.
Detectives were interviewing witnesses and believe the shooting was gang-related. One to three suspects are believed to be at large, according to McCarthy.
Chicago’s police department has touted gains in the city against violence. The department has said that its anti-gang program, narcotics initiatives, and community policing have resulted in fewer shootings and murders over the same period than the year prior.
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Police investigate the scene of the shooting in Cornell Square Park in Chicago late Thursday.
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(Reuters) – Several people were shot in a park on Chicago’s South Side Thursday night, police said.
Police could not immediately confirm a report on a Chicago Tribune blog that as many as 11 people had been shot, including a 3-year-old child.
Chicago police officer Amina Greer said the shootings occurred at about 10:15 p.m. There were no immediate reports of fatalities, Greer said, and no one was in custody.
Here’s a little something to start your weekend off with a bang. Cam Edwards, who many of you already know from Twitter and NRA News fame, was invited to address the Independence Institute’s Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms event last weekend. There was a host of goodness coming out of this address – far too much to be captured in a single transcript – but so very worth your time if you’re looking for some Saturday morning viewing. The title here gives a decent sense to the overall flavor, but let’s just go to the video and a few highlights.
(Disclosure: I have been a guest on Cam’s show, interviewed on 2nd Amendment related topics, but I have never been a paid writer in the organization.)
If gun control worked, Chicago would be Mayberry right now! And Weld County and El Paso County would be Thunderdome! You guys wouldn’t have [Weld County] Sheriff [John] Cooke, you would have Tina Turner and Mel Gibson running around! It would be horrible! But that’s not real life! Real life is gun control not working in Chicago. Real life is gun control failing in Camden, New Jersey and Oakland, California, and a lot of other communities in this country . . .
We are pushing back with the lawsuits, with the phone calls to our legislators, by electing officials and supporting elected officials who listen to us. But we’re also pushing back by being grownups, and by being okay at it. By having hundreds of people show up at a range and fire thousands of shotgun shells . . . and everybody’s okay! And now we’re enjoying cigars and drinks and we’ll all get home safely tonight, right?
Because we can control our lives! We can manage our lives! It’s not too difficult. We’re not perfect. We may eat a little too much dessert every now and then. We may not be able to beat that one bad habit, like smoking cigarettes, whatever. But we’re a heck of a lot more capable than our government gives us credit for, aren’t we?
This was a real stemwinder, and honestly, I don’t have a lot to add to it. I might not have even noticed it were it not for seeing it in Jim Geraghty’s Morning Jolt. (Are you a subscriber, by the way? It’s a daily read for me, even if Jim can’t link to Hot Air for some reason which has never been sufficiently explained.) In any event, here’s your chance to listen to Cam and take off on wherever the discussion leads you.
Godfather Politics – by Dave Jolly
