A murder in Chicago has a somewhat unusual sequel.
Officials say a murder victim managed to shoot his killer before dying, and, after the murderer fled, a passerby took the victim’s gun, hunted down the killer, and shot some more.
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Quijuan Lewis, a 20-year-old on parole for less than two months for a gun conviction, got out of a car and crouched behind a vehicle as the victim, 36-year-old Delegance Crawl, walked down the street, prosecutors said in a detention petition.
Crawl was walking and looking at his phone when Lewis jumped out from behind the vehicle and attacked him, the petition said. Lewis allegedly struck Crawl in the head with a gun multiple times as they fought on the street. Crawl eventually pulled out his own gun.
Ultimately, prosecutors say, Lewis shot Crawl in the back of the head. And Crawl shot Lewis in the leg. As Crawl lay gravely wounded, Lewis ran to a nearby gas station for help and stashed his gun in a potato chip display, according to police and prosecutors.
Back at the shooting scene, a passerby who has not been identified picked up Crawl’s gun from beside his motionless body and marched over to the gas station. They used Crawl’s gun to shoot Lewis “multiple” times in the buttocks and then ran away, officials said in court filings.
There's more at the link.
I can't figure out precisely what was the point in shooting the perpetrator multiple times in the ass, but I'm sure there's at least some sort of criminal logic in it . . . somewhere. Just don't ask me where.
What I can't figure out is what the passerby's interest might have been. Was he trying to avenge his friend's murder? If so, he wasn't very successful. In his shoes (if he wore any) I'd have picked a better target. Was he just a local who's fed up with all the street crime? If so, he merely added to it rather than solved the problem. Was there some other reason? If so, your guess is as good as mine. (If the second shooter wanted to discourage criminals like Lewis, this will at least have the effect of making the latter a laughing-stock in whatever jail or prison he inhabits. It's not every gangbanger who stashes his gun in a potato chip display, only to render himself defenseless against having his ass turned into a colander! That sort of dumbassery demands real [lack of] talent.)
I'm afraid this is the dominant culture in large patches of the urban environment in America's large cities these days. All I can say (as I've said often before) is, get out of them. Now. Because things are only going to get worse there - not better.
Peter
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"Quijuan."
Shocker.
This is good seed stock for an amusing film.
And the reverse is going on also, from nick at ttgnet.com: "Meanwhile on the interwebs, black girl discovers what others have known all along…"
"Dani Lalonders, an associate narrative designer at Cliffhanger Games, made the comments in 2021, when she was working for a different video game named ValiDate, which follows 13 characters in Jersey City as they navigate dating. The comments have since gone viral, after being shared by the right-wing account Libs of TikTok, sparking outrage on social media among critics who say the comments are racist and proof of discrimination. ‘ValiDate has a team of all people of color. We have no white people on our team,’ she shared during a talk at the Game Devs of Color Expo. ‘I did that because I wanted to create a safe environment, and I know the best way for an environment to be safe is to be around people who are just like me. She added: ‘I’m not saying white people are creating unsafe environments, I’m saying sometimes it’s hard to work with white people because sometimes they think something is okay, but it’s actually a microaggression. ‘And no one wants to deal with that while you’re trying to make a game that they love.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13197567/black-panther-video-game-designer-doesnt-hire-white-people.html
It is beginning to look like the USA is becoming a country of enclaves. Heinlein predicted in his wonderful book Friday that the USA would split up into seven or eight countries in the future.
"Quijuan."
Wasn't he in one of the middle three Star Wars movies?
--Tennessee Budd
Its only a matter of time before the Amish start hunting in the suburbs. A storm is coming.
> Its only a matter of time before the Amish start hunting in the suburbs. A storm is coming.
"When The Music Stops – How America’s Cities May Explode In Violence" by Matt Bracken
https://theprepperjournal.com/2013/09/05/music-stops-americas-cities-may-explode-violence/
"We have seen them all before, and we shall see them all again as history rhymes along regardless of the century or the generation of humankind nominally in control of events. But the next time we are visited by widespread, large-scale urban riots, a dangerous new escalation may be triggered by a fresh vulnerability: It’s estimated that the average American home has less than two weeks of food on hand. In poor minority areas, it may be much less. What if a cascading economic crisis, even a temporary one, leads to millions of EBT (electronic benefit transfer) cards flashing nothing but ERROR? This could also be the result of deliberate sabotage by hackers, or other technical system failures. Alternatively, the government might pump endless digits into the cards in a hopeless attempt to outpace future hyperinflation. The government can order the supermarkets to honor the cards, and it can even set price controls, but history’s verdict is clear: If suppliers are paid only with worthless scrip or blinking digits, the food will stop."
"STEP ONE: FLASH MOB LOOTING"
"In my scenario, the initial riots begin spontaneously across affected urban areas, as SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program) and other government welfare recipients learn that their EBT cards no longer function. This sudden revelation will cause widespread anger, which will quickly lead to the flash-mob looting of local supermarkets and other businesses. The media will initially portray these “food riots” as at least partly justifiable. Sadly, millions of Americans have been made largely, or even entirely, dependent on government wealth transfer payments to put food on their tables."
What was the point? Well, it's important that we get criminals in the end.
(Yes, I'll just be going now)
The bystander was one homeboy that made good on his threats:
"Ima gonna shoot yo butt off!"
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