Chicago-style funerals
Fox32 reports that funerals in Chicago have become dangerous venues when the deceased is a gang member.
Just last December, Hillside police were called after shots were fired during a funeral procession headed to Oak Ridge Cemetery.
“We were able to identify the car, and we started following the car after it left the cemetery so it wouldn’t create any more problems there,” said Hillside Police Chief Joseph Lukaszek.
Lukaszek rammed his squad car into the vehicle carrying the suspects before they could get on the expressway. Police wrestled several of the occupants to the ground and found three carrying guns.
Fox News says the gang-land shoot outs have become so common-place that at least one funeral director has hired off-duty policemen to protect funeral goers.
Maybe Chicago needs more gun control, you know, because they don’t have enough yet.
Speaking of gun control in Chicago, three teens were shot yesterday because they were standing on a corner;
At around 7:09 p.m., the victims were standing on the sidewalk in the 4900 block of West Rice Street in the city’s South Austin neighborhood when they heard gunshots and felt pain, officials said.
A 13-year-old girl was shot in the upper leg, a 14-year-old girl was shot in the upper thigh, and a 13-year-old boy was shot in the left ankle, according to Chicago police.
I’m sure that we can find a way to blame it all on the NRA.
Category: Guns
They should make cemeteries gun-free zones.
shhhh…. they will ban honor guards and final salutes
A 21 gun salute, WORD!
#Culture
As of yesterday, there have been 82 moiders in Capone Town. BLM? Sure, but only when a police officer has to shoot someone. As for the decision to allow the car carrying the shooters to leave the cemetery before intercepting it, it worked out. It was still a horrible decision.
Cops prolly figured if they stopped it near the funeral, that they’d get caught in a crossfire between the two gangs…
Ah. That makes sense.
If it is stupid and it works…
…Then they got lucky.
::snerk::
No cares about Chicago murders because by and large they take place in areas of the city that no one has ever given a fuck about.
As long as poor black and latino kids looking to make a buck in the drug trade are killed most of America has zero interest in stepping up to stop the slaughter. Based on comments in the past from a variety of black leaders it becomes quite clear even they aren’t all that concerned about why their youth in these areas find the premise of instant, violent death worth the payoff of big money in the drug trade.
When it starts to involve lots of young white teenagers or random bullets start hitting expensive homes in the suburbs you can bet it will be addressed.
A few years ago, I was skiing in Canada. A big story that came on the Canadian news, and seemed to be on the news every time I turned it on, was about a gang shootout on the streets of Toronto.
Nobody would have cared about that had it happened in the usual neighborhoods, but these gangbangers had their encounter and opened fire in a popular downtown mall. A white teenager was hit in the head and killed.
It was so endlessly reported I could probably still recognize her picture today. I wouldn’t be able to do that for a single one of the endless black teens who have been needlessly murdered over the years.
Canada tends to list these incidents as “hunting accidents” not homicide.
None of this is surprising. A cop who was a division commander was shot (7 times) and killed chasing a gangbanger up the stairs of the Thompson Center. The gangbanger had a gun in his hands. The cop’s was in its holster.
The gangabanger is in jail awaiting trial. The fact that he fired the gun at least seven times when the cop’s gun was in its holster speaks volumes.
The cop had more people (not just cops) at his funeral than there was room for parking.
I blame the idiot gladhanding sack of crap mayor for this – all of it.
Yeah, and the miscreant got a standing ovation from his fellow inmates at County when he was being perp walked to the courthouse. The prosecutor had those clowns transferred to other jails downstate to teach them a lesson. In an ideal world, those same assholes would get any possible plea bargains yanked and get the book thrown at them.
This doesn’t surprise me. Having some Irish blood, I’ve read a lot about the Troubles- IRA funerals were a BAD place to be. Look up the Corporals killings. Two British soldiers were murdered when they strayed into an IRA funeral procession (which was happening because an actual terrorist had shot three people dead at an IRA funeral days earlier).
When the hatred runs that deep, respect for the dead and their mourners means very little.
Three teens standing around on a street corner, just minding their own business, when they were shot–sounds legit.
Like when a 4 year old is collateral damage in a gang shooting when said 4 year old kid is outside at 3am.
I have watched the show 48 hrs more than a few times and I always get a kick out of the overly sympathetic voice describing the 20-year old male homicide victim as “the father of three.” Omitted is any mention of marriage or the number of baby mommas involved. My cold-hearted, mean-spirited reaction is always, ‘Good, there won’t be four, five, and six from him.’
Well there it is.
God help me, I’ve had the same reaction. “Let the the thugs thin their own herd” type of thing. We also generally learn from the sympathetic voice that the deceased was just about to start making positive changes in his life. Had been taking to Gramma about getting that GED and what not.
I hear that virtually every time…and I don’t believe a word of it. My concern is for the innocent caught in the cross-fire, injured or killed for no other reason than being in the wrong place and the wrong time. To h*ll with the others. Guess I’m a bit of a cynic.
You mean like, “Tyrone is survived by his 3 sons and 4 daughters, all under the age of 8. He was just getting his life turned around, and was planning on attending cooking school next fall”?
Yes! That’s it exactly, UpNorth. Exactly!
If you’ve never seen a funeral or a wake for a hood rat, you really should.
To call it a three ring circus of over-dramatic wailing (from men and women in equal measure), virtually everyone verbally argues, many physical fights (up to shootings and murders), and a place where all forms of decorum and societal mores disappear (kids riding on the hoods of cars in the funeral procession).
But you do often see neat rides and coffins – sometimes simultaneously. (smile)
Backstory set to music here. It’s based on a real incident from the mid-1980s – and yeah, it happened in Chicago.
I knew a guy who made an actual casket into a tricycle motorcycle. One wheel at the front. We made the gas can look like a headstone and put it behind the driver (so at the head of the casket). Small block chev (283) and an automatic trans.
So, did he get killed on the road ???
If he did, he wouldn’t even have to go to the undertaker, Just toss him in and bury it !!!
That’s how he would have preferred to go, but got taken out by a cowardly, sneaky blood clot.
Best part was when he’d ride it he’d wear those skeleton gloves and a full head flaming skull mask. Very Ghost Rider-like.
I did love me some Stevie Ray Vaughn.
Only years later did I find out that song was based on a real person.
Yes, indeed, you definitely have witnessed a hood rat funeral. Lots of DFO’s.(Done Fell Out), pushing, shoving and a fashion show.
Every day, I get my incident paging network texts on the chicago gang shootings along with the CFD jobs (working fires) Baltimore is running close behind with the gang shootings also along with Miami Dade and Broward. In Riveria Beach, Florida the shootings have died down a little (no pun intended)
It is so sad, Chicago used to be such a fun town until all the hood rats took over! They should call out the National Guard to stand on every corner and take out all of the hood rats all at once and clean them out! I am so sorry that we have lost Chicago, it used to be such a nice place! I wonder how long it will take them to completely destroy the place!
They are self eliminating WW. Be patient.
I wouldn’t put the National Guard at risk. Maybe just quietly let the mafia take over again. The murder rate was much lower back then and if an innocent got killed, there were real consequences.
From my last visit last summer, it seems that the hood rats only have a grip on the South Side. Northsiders are still not in too many of the crossfires.
I hope they thin out that particular herd, and fast. I miss my old home town.
Marketing tip for Chicago funeral homes! Drive thru funerals. Any thug shot and killed at the current funeral, gets a quick drive thru process funeral and burial in the same motorcade. All for half off! This is value added service at its best.
Fries. Gotta have fries at the drive thru!
YES! Fries and a Colt 45 Malt Liquor!
#PallBearersLivesMatter
There are several generations of my extended family buried there. I heard the hood rats took the place over, guess I heard right.
As a born and bred Chicagoan (yes, I fled a couple decades ago), I hate what has become of my hometown. I promise, it is still a beautiful place to visit, filled with great food, music and sights.
…and before anyone else says it, I know they say the same about a lot of formerly habitable places
They bring a knife to a funeral; we bring a gun. That’s the Chicago way.
The rats left Chiraq and moved to Milwaukee.
The north side of Milwaukee is more violent than Chiraq is now.
Per capita the murder rate is quite a bit higher than Chiraq is. And Milwaukee is only 600K people.
There were 141 murders in Milwaukee in 2016 and 145 in 2015. Up significantly from below 100 for years.
And every time some kid gets shot by stray bullets from some gangbanger hit the usual suspects come out in foll force with their candlelight vigils and stop the violence park meetings.
Mayor Tommy, da Torch, Barrett attends them from the safety of a church and a huge set of armed guards.
When he is there he calls for gun control and decries the lack of safety in the city he’s been running for almost as long as I can remember…
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Milwaukee-Wisconsin.html
I had a feeling the NRA did this shooting. You know the NRA is gun trafficking in ShitCago.
HHHHmmmm.
I see a business opportunity.
Gun rentals at thug funerals at cemeteries.
Ready made plots.
Cash and 24 carrot gold chains by the weight accepted.
Rental cars (Olds 88 Cutlass Supreme) with bench rests.
Floor drain and water-proof interior.
Onsite Coroner.
Oh…..you gotta add a phonetic pronunciation service for fake-African names for obituaries and the 1100 news.
So that Shaqwaanda WuTang Tekilla O’Brien may rest in peace.
You guys have to visit: https://heyjackass.com/
It’s all the statistics on Chicago violence broken down in details.
Sample:
Year to Date
Shot & Killed: 71
Shot & Wounded: 307
Total Shot: 378
Total Homicides: 86