- Three people were killed and another 40 shot in violent Thanksgiving weekend
- A vehicle overturned after a car chase in which the two people inside were shot
- Chicago shooting incidents have spiked 9 per cent from 2020, jumping to 3,221
- Mayor Lori Lightfoot backed ‘defund the police’ action amid 2020 BLM protests
- She backtracked after the death of a cop in August, said she will ‘refund’ police
This it the terrifying moment machine gun shooting erupted on the streets of Chicago in a bloody Thanksgiving weekend of gun violence.
Three people were killed and another 40 were shot over the holiday weekend in the latest surge in violent crime.
Footage posted online shows a man, who does not appear to have a gun, running through the streets of Chicago as machine gun fire erupts nearby.
So far this year in Chicago, shooting incidents have seen a nine per cent spike, jumping to 3,221 from 2,960 in 2020.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot publicly backed the ‘defund the police’ movement and proposed slashing $59million from the CPD budget, or 3.3percent, and 600 vacant positions from the department, amid Black Lives Matter protests throughout the summer of 2020.