NYC shootings: 76 injured, 14 killed by gunfire this week
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By Tina Moore and Lee Brown, NY Post, August 17, 2020:
New York City’s latest bloody week of gunfire saw 76 people injured, including 14 murdered — with almost two-and-a-half times more shootings than the same week last year, according to police sources.
As of 7 a.m., the previous week saw 62 separate shootings — a dramatic rise over the 26 during the same week last year, sources said.
Among the 76 hurt in the latest surge of gunplay, there were 14 murders — again more than the 10 for the same period in 2019, the sources said.
The latest fatalities included a man who was shot dead just after 2 a.m. at the entrance of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, NYPD sources said.
Photos showed a distraught woman comforting a man dressed all in white who appeared to have collapsed in grief as others soon gathered around a body being carried off in a stretcher.
It continued a particularly bloody weekend that had already seen at least 11 people shot overnight from Friday until Saturday morning, with four fatalities — including 28-year-old city Correction Officer John Jeff who was gunned down at a party in Queens.
The alarming surge by the beginning of this month already saw more shootings this year than the whole of 2019 — with five months to go.
As officials squabble over the cause, scared New Yorkers have even started buying bulletproof vests in record numbers.
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“A Virginia state senator has been charged with two felonies for her alleged involvement in the damaging of a large Confederate monument during protests in the city of Portsmouth, authorities said Monday. Democratic state Sen. Louise Lucas faces charges of of conspiracy to commit a felony and injury to a monument in excess of $1,000.”
Invest in yourselves, and stop blaming whitey for your own failure to become something. You have been given so many opportunities………..do something productive!
DemocracyRules
3 years ago
The ‘second wave’, seems to be ending. And total deaths from all causes still seems to be lower for 2020 than previous years.
It didn’t kill a million Americans. The stock market is holding up. Soros and the democratic scum are furious. When the post office blows up on them next, will they release the next virus?
they left off a few zero’s, that should be 170,000,000 dead instead. According to the Democrat anyway and it’s all POTUS Trump’s fault too.
John Blow
3 years ago
“scared New Yorkers have even started buying bulletproof vests….”
They don’t know how good they have it.
In Australia it is ILLEGAL to own, have in your possession, or wear a BULLET PROOF VEST or STAB VEST!
We’re at the mercy of the scumbag criminals!
We’re held hostage by our own government!
“scared New Yorkers have even started buying bulletproof vests….”
They don’t know how good they have it.
In Australia it is ILLEGAL to own, have in your possession, or wear a BULLET PROOF VEST or STAB VEST!
We’re at the mercy of the scumbag criminals!
We’re held hostage by our own government!
fedup666
3 years ago
Leave Gotham which his controlled by the two Fredo’s- Cuomo and DeBlasio.
Thing is, when they leave they bring the same disease with them that caused the fall of NYC and then they infect where ever they move to, eventually destroying that host too.
LostAllSanity
3 years ago
The Rotten Apple…Democrats prize possession…and they can have it.
jerrys
3 years ago
Those who consider themselves African- Americans should consider that their very existence is due to the luck their ancestors had to be on a boat to America where although worked hard were allowed by the benevolence of the white man to eventually rise to wealth and the highest positions in our land . The alternative would be that their ancestors would have been sold to the moslem/ arab slave traders who would castrate and work them to death. How ungrateful our dark skinned citizens are when they should be thanking god that they are in America..
The moslems have duped the black community to become their soldiers and tear down our monuments and statues as demanded by the koran.
If you vote for a democrat you are voting to put America under islamic sharia slavery!!
Sgt Snuffy
3 years ago
Trying to compete with Chicago and Baltimore.
Robert Kahlcke
3 years ago
Tlaib and Omar believe this was a slow week where they were WHELPED. It’s a shame they didn’t remain there they
would have been DEAD by now and the world would have been a better place.
AlgorithmicAnalyst
3 years ago
Clearly, the worst Demoncrat Mayor in all the land 🙂
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