"A SWAT team responded after a man was killed...Police officers responding to a call about 10:30 a.m. saw four people get out of two cars and begin firing toward a house...People inside returned fire and hit one of the gunmen, police said."
"Five men linked to a deadly gang-related shootout Friday in Austin were released from custody after prosecutors declined to charge each of them with a pair of felonies, including first-degree murder, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned."
"The brazen mid-morning gunfight, which left one shooter dead and two of the suspects wounded, stemmed from an internal dispute between two factions of the Four Corner Hustlers street gang... police sought to charge all five suspects with murder and aggravated battery."
"Chicago police spokeswoman acknowledged the suspects had “been released without charges Cook County state’s attorney’s office, explained that prosecutors had “determined that the evidence was insufficient to meet our burden of proof to approve felony charges.”
"...State’s attorney’s office’s decision to decline charges in a different light: “Mutual combatants was cited as the reason for the rejection.” Mutual combat is a legal term used to define a fight or struggle that two parties willingly engage in."
Couple points: 1. All the combatants were Black. 2. The mayor and State's attorney are Black. 3. One person died. 4. NO CHARGES. 5. VIRTUALLY NO NATIONAL MEDIA ATTENTION.
So those of you telling me "OMG RITTENHOUSE IS BEING TREATED FAVORABLY" clearly are taking some hallucinogenic drugs.
If anything, he is being treated MUCH MORE HARSHLY THAN THESE PEOPLE, many of whom are known felons.
That is why I asked the question last week.
Every single excuse that liberals gave to my question WAS PROVEN FALSE A MONTH AGO...and nobody wants to face those facts.
And the police PEACEFULLY arrested everyone.
And they can't blame Whites, or Republicans, or whomever else they want, because they weren't involved.
The ONLY reason I can see that this wasn't the same level of national news as Kenosha was, as far as I can tell, that our national media is simply bigoted.
Or they don't care about African American lives lost as much as two White rioters in Kenosha.
Either/Or.
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Kudos to the @WTA: "Simon said the Tour, which has a deal to host 11 tournaments in China, would weigh the possibility of no longer doing business in the communist nation if there were not “appropriate results.”
"I’m not sitting here and thinking that I’m going to solve the world’s problems by any means. But what I am here to do is that we have an athlete that’s part of the WTA family that’s come out with serious allegations. We’re going to be 100% supportive of that..."
Maybe Biden rebounds because he had good policy, or gets good news, or whatever.
But you'd have to be insane to think they can't go lower. They can...if they remain incompetent.
Frankly, I think if he spends his capital on BBB passage, he is going to be in big trouble.
This is really the problem. And a lot of Americans may not understand economics all that well, but they do understand this: if you spend more, inflation goes up.
So anyone want to explain the economic theory of injecting a few trillion dollars into an economy during a period of high inflation and low interest rates?
Influenza is not the same, but we can take lessons from it. It kills tens of thousands every year.
Do we completely stop portions of the economy for it? And if not, why not? In 2017-18 over 50k died of the flu. So I guess the argument is that 400k dying is too much, 50k is ok?
Here is the reality: we have vaccines, the best defense.
We have therapeutics, and will be getting more.
Our other interventions don't really work that great (masks, etc).