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6 killed, 43 wounded in various weekend shootings in Chicago
Gun violence in Chicago killed six and wounded 43. Ten victims were only teenagers, and two of them died, according to CBS Chicago. A police officer is also among the wounded.
First to die as a result of gun violence last weekend was an 18-year-old boy at 72nd Place and Jeffery Boulevard. A gunman shot him and another 15-year-old boy in a building. A fight had reportedly broken out after someone arrived home with a pizza. The 15-year-old survived. Then, a female Chicago police officer responding on the scene received a gunshot to the leg. Police suspect that it was the same gunman who shot the teenagers.
However, she was in good enough condition to drive herself to the hospital. She has since returned home to recover. All four people involved in the confrontation were detained by police on the scene.
Next, at about 8:30 PM Saturday, an 18-year-old girl was shot to death while sitting in her own car. Medics were able to attend to her promptly after the shooting. But Mount Sinai Hospital later pronounced her dead.
At 8:20 AM Sunday, crossfire struck a 16-year-old boy. He was taking the trash out at the time.
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Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar was voted off the House Foreign Affairs Committee Thursday. The action was expected, as Republican members of Congress had criticized Omar’s antisemetic and anti-American rhetoric.
After intense debating on the House floor, the resolution passed with a 218-211 vote. Democrats attempted to pull the race card, accusing Republican House members of racism for removing Omar from the committee.
Omar also accused House Republicans of racism, saying, “I am Muslim, I am an immigrant, and interestingly, from Africa…Is anyone surprised that I am being targeted? Is anyone surprised that I am somehow deemed unworthy to speak about American foreign policy, or that they see me as a powerful voice that needs to be silenced?”
“There is this idea that you are a suspect if you are an immigrant or if you are from certain parts of the world or certain skin tone or a muslim.” Omar said during the heated debate. A fiery Alexandria Ocasia Cortez also chimed in shouting, “This is an attack on women of color!”
Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, from New York, said she had personally witnessed Omar spew anti-American rhetoric. Malliotakis said, “I have been in that committee room where, the representative, equates Israel and the United States to Hamas and the Taliban. Absolutely unacceptable for a member of that committee.”
A four-page resolution was written for the justification of removing Omar from the house Foreign Affairs Committee. The resolution states that in 2019, Omar suggested that Jewish people were buying U.S. political support when she posted on Twitter, “it’s all about the Benjamins, baby.”
Omar also commented on the September 11th attacks saying, “some people did something.” This type of comment is unacceptable for any representative who is sitting on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lawmakers said.
In the resolution it states that members of this committee should all be held to an “equal standard of conduct due to the international sensitivities and national security concerns under the jurisdiction of this committee.”
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