Bodies are piling up on the streets of Chicago over Labor Day weekend – with 54 shot, including seven killed, as President Trump and Gov. Pritzker spar over sending the National Guard into the Windy City.
At least 32 separate shootings occurred in Chicago between Friday evening and noon on Monday, according to a review of police incident reports by ABC News.
The shootings include a 17-year-old girl who was inside her home when a bullet blasted through her front window and struck her arm, the outlet reported.
A 25-year-old woman was shot twice in the abdomen and once in the left leg on Friday evening. She was taken to a local hospital, where she died, according to ABC7.
A 31-year-old man was also shot after being caught in the crossfire of gunmen traded gunfire from opposing vehicles, and two people were wounded while driving down a street over the weekend, authorities said.
Just five hours after Trump posted a message on Truth Social on Saturday criticizing Pritzker’s handling of crime in the city, at least seven people were shot around 11:10 p.m. in Bronzeville. All of the people are expected to be okay, ABC7 reported.
Trump called the governor “weak and pathetic” for dismissing the need for a National Guard presence in the Windy City in the social media post.
The president further warned “we’re coming” – suggesting some sort of federal action on crime in Chicago – if Pritzker doesn’t “straighten it out, FAST.”
“National Guard troops or any kind of troops on the streets of an American city don’t belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency – and there is not,” Pritzker said of the situation in Chicago.
He also vowed to sue the Trump administration if troops are indeed deployed.
“It’s an invasion with US troops, if they in fact do that,” Pritzker argued. “They’ll be in court pretty quickly,” he added.
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