TDS Chicago Alderman blames Trump for city shootings

On CNN Monday night, Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho Lopez was pressed about the wave of shootings that never seems to stop in his city. His answer? Blame Trump. He actually said, “We also have had many, many instances where the administration has really escalated, exacerbated the violence in our country, in our inner cities.” And then he added, “What we have not seen is really a systemic investment that will actually address the core issues.”

So, then how come the violence was even worse at many times when Trump was not in office?

Chicago is known for deadly shootings. In fact, there has been a website running for years that keeps track of the number of shootings in the Windy City called heyjackass.com.

Here are the stats as of the moment I am writing this. They may go up by the time I publish this story:

It shows 39 fatal shootings in August, with 208 shot and wounded, for a total of 247 people shot. Thanks to the ingenuity of the street people there, total homicides hit 43. Can you imagine living in a city with 43 murders in one month? No, it’s all Trump’s fault, right?

The host, Boris Sanchez, wasn’t about to let the numbers slide. He asked Lopez directly, “And how do you respond, Alderman — I heard you sort of allude to it there that there’s more work to be done — how do you respond to the argument that there were something like 50-plus shootings — 53 people — 52 people, I should say, were shot in Chicago, 30 different shootings over the holiday weekend, seven people killed, aren’t numbers like that still a problem that your city needs to address? What more can be done to address that?”

Now listen to the Alderman’s response. “Well, I think that what we need to do, is that, we also had a mass shooting in a Catholic school. We also have had many, many instances where the administration has really escalated, exacerbated the violence in our country, in our inner cities. Trump is a dictator. I think we’ve got to be very clear. He’s trying to normalize violence. He is trying to normalize military deployment in American cities like L.A., D.C., Chicago, and many others to come. But what we have not seen is really a systemic investment that will actually address the core issues. I have shootings in my ward. One of them was a tragic shooting of an unhoused neighbor. So, the Trump administration is saying that they’re going to address the issue of unhoused residents by putting them in jails and concentration camps. Are they going to address the issue of violence by withholding $800 million that [has] gone to the cities like Chicago for violence prevention programs? $200 million that the Trump administration is withholding for substance abuse programs. I think that this has to do a lot with distracting the public and to create distractions in a time when the American public needs solutions.”

Every time these blue-city officials open their mouths, it becomes painfully clear that the chaos on their streets isn’t an accident. It’s the direct result of the incompetence and reckless decisions of the people in charge.

#chicagocrime #trumpblamegame #bluecityfailures