90 MURDERS IN CHICAGO IN AUGUST, DEADLIEST MONTH IN LAST 20 YEARS, CPD SAYS

That's 3 a day folks! Take a wild guess as to who is getting shot. 

This coming from the city with some of the most strict gun control laws on the books. Kind of makes Al shouting, "Hands up don't shoot" a moot point while the brothers in Chicago are dropping faster than clay pigeons at a Trap shoot.

Not to worry though. I'm sure BLM will come to the rescue.

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Chicago crime numbers released early Thursday morning confirm August 2016 was the deadliest month the city has seen in two decades.

In the first eight months of 2016, the city tied the total number of murders that occurred in 2015, the Chicago Police Department said.

In August, 90 people were murdered, 384 shootings occurred and 472 people were victims of shootings - including two teens who were shot on Chicago's West Side Wednesday night.

Two 14-year-old boys were shot in the 1000-block of North Menard Avenue in the city's Austin neighborhood around 7:45 p.m. Police said the gunman opened fire from inside a passing vehicle.

One of the boys was shot in the back and shoulder. He was transported to Loyola University Medical Center. The other boy was shot in the leg. He was transported to Stroger Hospital. Both teens are expected to survive their injuries.

Police took 200 violent offenders off the streets last month and illegal gun arrests and homicide arrests were up in August 2016 compared to August 2015, the CPD said.

"There are more murders, but the numbers of arrests that we've made pertain to gun offenses just shows you that the men and women of the CPD are out there engaging these folks. We've recovered one illegal handgun for every hour of the year." Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said Thursday on ABC7 News This Morning.

A majority of these crimes happened within five districts on the South and West sides of the city, but crime rates in other districts are down, police said.

Johnson said there is a proliferation of guns on the streets of Chicago and stricter gun legislation is necessary to keep gun offenders from repeating their crimes.

(Not to mention Barry has been releasing criminals a dime a dozen)

"The police department is doing their part. Where we need help is holding these repeat gun offenders who are driving much of the violence - 1,400 individuals in the city of Chicago - that are driving all the gun violence in our city," Johnson said.

Johnson cited a University of Chicago study of murder cases in 2015 that found 40 percent of the suspects arrested in those homicides had previous gun arrests in their background.

He said this year to date, 85 percent of the non-fatal and fatal shooting victims are on the department's "strategic subject list."

"Those are individuals who are choosing this lifestyle. So most of Chicago is safe from these types of events. Every now and then, we have average citizens that (become victims) of it, (like) Nykea Aldridge from last weekend. Those two brothers that murdered that poor woman. Both on parole - one of them had been out for about 90 days, the other was on home monitoring - and they go out and kill this poor lady. We look at the right people. We just need help holding them accountable," Johnson said.

Chicago has seen more homicides this year than New York and Los Angeles combined.

Johnson said the murder rates in Los Angeles and New York City are lower than in Chicago because those cities have stricter consequences for criminals.

"In LA, they have a law called, 'You Use a Gun and You're Done.' That's what we need here. In New York, they have a mandatory sentencing for the first time you get caught with an illegal weapon: three and a half years. We don't have that here. We need to show the people here that we're serious about this gun violence," Johnson said.

Johnson said he does not think there is a state of emergency in Chicago, because "we know what we need to do we just need to get serious and do it."

CHICAGO TOWN HALLS ON VIOLENCE

Chicago activists plan to take steps to address the violence plaguing the city.

They hope to shine a spotlight on the economic, social and public safety challenges impacting poor communities of color in Chicago. They said the goal is to raise awareness and demand resources from local, state and federal governments.

"We need a plan for urban reconstruction policy now. Those that run for our country leadership or are in it must hear our voices. We are at the threshold of national, if not international, tension," Jackson said.

Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin (1st District) and the Reverend Jesse Jackson, leader of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, plan to hold nine town hall meetings starting Sept. 13 in high-crime areas on Chicago's South and West sides.

Guess that depends on if their still alive when Sept. 13th rolls around.

JESSE JACKSON SAYS REPUBLICANS TO BLAME FOR HORRIBLE CONDITIONS IN DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED BLACK COMMUNITIES

Really...what a lying turd. According to Wikipedia Chicago hasn't had a Republican mayor since 1931!

Chicago is CONTROLLED by Democrats period.

The news conference was held the scene of Elijah Sims' murder.

The Oak Park River Forest High School senior was fatally shot in the head Monday night while hanging out with friends in Austin, where he once lived. Police said the bullet that killed Sims was meant for someone else.

Hundreds of people packed a park in suburban Oak Park to remember Sims, on what would have been his 17th birthday.

"I don't want anyone else to get hurt. No mother should ever have to feel the way that I feel," Sharita Galloway, Sims' mother, said Thursday.

"We have a state of emergency. We have a crisis. But today, we come together to say that we're going to do something about it as community leaders," Boykin said.

Later Thursday, several local groups plan to ask for what they're calling a "community peace surge" over what is expected to be a violent Labor Day weekend.

They will ask Chicagoans to clean up trash in streets and alleys, have picnics on their blocks and talk to young people about the importance of school.

Also Thursday afternoon, the Black Star Project plans to fly the American flag upside down near the Dan Ryan Expressway at 79th Street to show the president that the city is in distress and needs federal assistance.

90 MURDERS IN CHICAGO IN AUGUST, DEADLIEST MONTH IN LAST 20 YEARS, CPD SAYS

Now 30 BENGHAZI-related emails have been recovered from Hillary's server – and they weren't in the batch she turned over to the State Department

Nothing will come of this either.

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The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI's recently closed investigation into her use of a private server.

Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30 were not included in the 55,000 pages previously provided by Clinton. 

The State Department's lawyer said it would need until the end of September to review the emails and redact potentially classified information before they are released.

Donald Trump's campaign lashed out, asking what else might be lurking among the emails Clinton ordered deleted.

WEAKER? The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI's recently closed investigation into her use of a private server.

AFTERMATH: The inside of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after a deadly 2012 terror attack killed four Americans and gutted the facility while Hillary Clinton was SOS.

'Today's disclosure that 30 additional emails about Benghazi were discovered on Hillary Clinton's private server raises additional questions about the more than 30,000 emails she deleted,' Trump campaign Senior Communications Advisor Jason Miller said in a statement.

'Hillary Clinton swore before a federal court and told the American people she handed over all of her work-related emails. If Clinton did not consider emails about something as important as Benghazi to be work-related, one has to wonder what is contained in the other emails she attempted to wipe from her server.'

The news about the new email discovery was first reported by The Washington Examiner.

During a March 2015 press conference at the United Nations after the existence of her homebrew, private email server was first made public, Clinton insisted that while she had ordered the deletion of more than 33,000 emails, all of them were personal in nature.

'We went through a thorough process to identify all of my work-related emails and deliver them to the State Department,' she told reporters.

'At the end, I chose not to keep my private personal emails – emails about planning Chelsea's wedding or my mother's funeral arrangements, condolence notes to friends as well as yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes.' 

DID SHE LIE? Clinton said in a March 10, 2015, press conference that she decided to delete only personal emails – not work-related ones

Judge Mehta questioned why it would take so long to release so few documents, and urged that the process be sped up. 

He ordered the department to report to him in a week with more details about why the review process would take a full month.

The hearing was held in one of several lawsuits filed by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, which has sued over access to government records involving the Democratic presidential nominee. 

The State Department has said the FBI provided it with about 14,900 emails purported not to have been among those previously released.

Clinton previously had said she withheld and deleted only personal emails not related to her duties as secretary of state. 

With the November election little more than two months away, Republicans are pressing for the release of as many documents related to Clinton as possible.

In a separate development Tuesday, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the FBI is expected to release documents soon related to its investigation, which focused on whether Clinton and her aides mishandled government secrets.

The official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity, said documents in the case would be made public as the FBI responds to Freedom of Information Act requests. 

It wasn't immediately clear when the documents would be released or exactly what they would include.

Though he described Clinton's actions as 'extremely careless,' FBI Director James Comey said his agents found no evidence that anyone intended to break the law and said 'no reasonable prosecutor' would have brought a criminal case.

The FBI this month provided Congress portions of its file from the agency's yearlong investigation.

The FBI interviewed Clinton for several hours at FBI headquarters in Washington just days before announcing its decision to close the investigation. The Justice Department accepted the FBI's recommendation. 

Since the conclusion of the investigation the emails have continued to be a political problem for Clinton, as the exchanges have shown a cozy relationship between her State Department and the Clinton Foundation, which Trump has characterized as 'pay-for-play' in the past week. 

While there has been no evidence suggesting that Clinton Foundation donors successfully pushed policy changes while Clinton served as President Obama's secretary of state, emails that the conservative watchdog Citizens United released this week show one of Clinton's top aides, Huma Abedin, alerting the foundation's people that Clinton would be off the grid during a trip to Russia. 

'This is an email about their State Department travel on an official trip to Russia that Abedin is sending to the foundation, to they understand they would be off the grid,' Citizens United's David Bossie said. '"If you need anything call us." This is just part and parcel of what was going on.' 

Bossie noted that the same set of emails also indicates that Clinton's aides were aware that her private email address was insecure, as Abedin said she wouldn't be using that address while traveling to Russia for fear of hacks. 

'We don't know where the State Department ended and the foundation began, and that's really what our investigation is truly uncovering here,' Bossie said this morning on 'Fox & Friends.'

Now 30 BENGHAZI-related emails have been recovered from Hillary's server – and they weren't in the batch she turned over to the State Department

All of a sudden - Amazing Transformational Progress

Before Obama there was virtually no outlandish presence of Islam in America. • All of a sudden, Islam is taught in schools.  Christianity and the Bible are banned in schools. • All of a sudden we must allow prayer rugs everywhere and allow for Islamic prayer  in schools, airports and businesses. • All of a sudden we must stop serving pork in prisons. • All of a sudden we are inundated with law suits by Muslims who are offended by American culture. • All of a sudden we must allow burkas to be worn everywhere even though you have no idea who or what is covered up under them. • All of a sudden Muslims are suing employers and  refusing to do their jobs if they personally deem it conflicts with Sharia Law. • All of a sudden the Attorney General of the United  States vows to prosecute anyone who engages in "anti-Muslim speech". • All of a sudden, Jihadists who engage in terrorism and openly admit they acted in the name of Islam and ISIS, are emphatically declared they are NOT Islamic by      our leaders and/or their actions are determined NOT to be terrorism, but other nebulous terms like 'workplace violence." • All of a sudden, it becomes Policy that Secular Middle East dictators that were benign or friendly to the West, must be replaced by Islamists and the Muslim Brotherhood. •  All of a sudden our troops are withdrawn from Iraq and the middle east, giving rise to ISIS. • All of a sudden, America has reduced its nuclear stockpiles to 1950 levels, as Obama's stated goal of a nuke-free America by the time he leaves office continues uninterrupted. • All of a sudden, a deal with Iran must be made at any cost, with a pathway to nuclear weapons and HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars handed over to fund their programs. • All of a sudden America APOLOGIZES to Muslim states and sponsors of terror worldwide for acts of aggression, war and sabotage THEY perpetrate against our soldiers. • All of a sudden, the American Navy  is diminished to 1917 Pre-World War I levels of only 300 ships. The Army is at pre-1940 levels. The Air Force scraps 500 planes and planned to retire the use of the A-10 Thunderbolt close air support fighter. A further draw down of another 40,000 military personnel is in progress. • All of a sudden half of our aircraft carriers are recalled for maintenance by Obama rendering the Atlantic unguarded, NONE are in the Middle East. • All of a sudden Obama has to empty Guantanamo Bay of captured Jihadists and let them loose in Jihad-friendly Islamic states. He demands to close the facility. • All of a sudden America will negotiate with terrorists and trade FIVE Taliban commanders for a deserter and Jihad sympathizer. • All of a sudden there is no money for American poor, disabled veterans, jobless Americans, hungry Americans, or displaced Americans but there is endless money for Obama's "Syrian refugee" resettlement programs. •  All of sudden there is an ammunition shortage in the USA. • All of a sudden, the most important thing for Obama to do after a mass shooting by two Jihadists, is disarm American Citizens. • All of a sudden, the President of the United States cannot attend the Christian Funerals of a Supreme Court Justice and a former First Lady because of previous (seemingly unimportant) commitments. All of a sudden we have Muslims with positions in the White House, making policy and with access to classified material.   All of a sudden, I'm sick to my stomach. I'm not sure the majority of Americans recognize the seriousness of the situation and how much "progress" has been made by Islam these last 7 years, a very brief time compared to a 75 year lifetime!

Barack Hussein Obama

But he's not a muslim.

All of a sudden - Amazing Transformational Progress

Iranian vessels come within 300 yards of US destroyer

This is the kind of thing that tends to happen when you got this for a president.

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A US Navy official told CNN four Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps vessels conducted a "high-speed intercept" of the USS Nitze in waters near the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday, deeming the incident "unsafe and unprofessional."

The official said two of the vessels slowed and turned away only after coming within 300 yards of the US guided-missile destroyer as it transited international waters near the Strait of Hormuz, and only after the destroyer had sent multiple visual and audio warnings.

The incident is only the latest in a series of all-too-close encounters with Iran in the region since December. These brushes have included Iranian rocket launches, drones flying over US vessels and the capture of US sailors in January. They come against the backdrop of renewed US diplomatic contacts with Iran, which has triggered a political backlash among Iranian hardliners, including the powerful IRGC.

In the wake of Tuesday's incident, the Nitze and US Naval Forces Central Command have determined that the Iranian vessels were violating international law and maritime standards, acting dangerously and unprofessionally.

Iran video appears to show U.S. sailor in tears 02:23

The Iranian vessels moved at high speed toward the Nitze, which was operating in accordance with international law in international waters and ignored maritime "rules of the road" as set out in the 1972 Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea. According to the Navy official, the IRGC vessels ignored multiple warnings, creating a dangerous, harassing environment that could have pushed the Nitze to take defensive measures, escalating the situation.


The US Naval Forces Central Command is responsible for approximately 2.5 million square miles of area that stretches from the Arabian Gulf to the Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, parts of the Indian Ocean and 20 countries.

Tuesday's encounter took place as the Nitze and the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason were conducting what the official said was a routine transit near the internationally recognized strait. The official spoke to CNN anonymously to discuss military matters.

The four IRGC vessels approached at high speed. After identifying them, the Nitze tried 12 times to make contact by radio without receiving a response, according to the Navy official. As two of the Iranian vessels continued to barrel toward the Nitze at high speed, the destroyer used an internationally recognized maritime danger signal three times.

Photos: U.S. aircraft carriers

That signal -- five short blasts of the ship's whistle -- is used when another vessel's intentions are not understood or its indicated course is dangerous. At the same time, the Nitze also used visual warnings, firing 10 flares in the direction of the approaching vessels. Again, the destroyer got no response, the official said.

Despite the Nitze's close proximity to off-shore oil rigs, the ship altered course to move away from the approaching Iranian vessels and avoid a potential collision. Only after the two Iranian vessels had closed to within 300 yards of Nitze did they slow their speed before ultimately moving away.

The intercept was another tense incident between the longtime foes over the past year.
In December, as part of a life-fire exercise, Iran's military fired a rocket near the American aircraft carrier, the USS Harry Truman.

And in January, the IRGC captured 10 American sailors when their two Riverine Command Boats accidentally strayed into waters near Iran-controlled Farsi Island, in the Persian Gulf. The sailors were released soon after.

Later that month, Iran reportedly flew an unarmed drone over a US warship, a move that a US navy official called "abnormal and unprofessional."
In July, Iranian ships sailed close to USS New Orleans while Gen. Joseph Votel, commander of Central Command, was aboard. 

Iranian vessels come within 300 yards of US destroyer

Trump steps back from hardline stance on deporting illegal immigrants

Another cave. Proving once again illegals hold the upper hand. No one, not even Trump is going to get rid of them. And what kind of message does that send to others planning on coming here?

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Trump says government can 'work with' illegal immigrants.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump continued to insist Wednesday in a "Hannity" town hall with Fox News' Sean Hannity that there will be "no amnesty" for illegal immigrants, but suggested that he would be willing to "work with them."

His remarks were the latest in a series of recent interviews where he has said he is considering softening a previous pledge made at the onset of his campaign to deport 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. During a “Hannity” town hall on Tuesday, Trump said he was open to “softening” laws dealing with illegal immigrants.

On Wednesday, Trump told Hannity there would be "no citizenship" for those illegal immigrants.

"Let me go a step further- they'll pay back-taxes, they have to pay taxes, there's no amnesty, as such, there's no amnesty, but we work with them," Trump said.

He also spoke of how hard it would be to deport people who have lived in the country for decades and raised a family.

"Now, everybody agrees we get the bad ones out," Trump said. "But when I go through and I meet thousands and thousands of people on this subject, and I've had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me, and they've said, 'Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who's been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and their family out, it's so tough, Mr. Trump,' I have it all the time! It's a very, very hard thing."

The Republican nominee then returned to one of his tougher stances by slamming sanctuary cities for "protecting criminals," where he claimed police are at the point "where they almost give up."

"It's so hard for the police to--if somebody is protected between the sanctuary city nonsense," Trump said. "We got to get rid of the sanctuary cities, we're protecting these people. We're protecting criminals. And the police, who are phenomenal people, they're at a point where they almost give up. They catch them, they have them, they know they did it and then they know nothing is going to happen. You know, ok, so if you're a killer and you're in this country, they go after you big league and it's tough. If you're a killer and you're an illegal immigrant, the police don't know what to do."

He added that he is expected to announce a decision on his stance regarding illegal immigration "very soon."

Trump is expected to unveil his new immigration policy next week during a speech in Phoenix, the Associated Press reported late Wednesday.

Trump plans to speak at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Phoenix Aug. 31.

Arizona Republican Party Chairman Robert Graham confirmed the event to the AP, and that the speech would cover "policy." Two officials with knowledge of the Trump campaign's plans confirmed the topic was immigration to the AP. They weren't authorized to speak on the record about campaign plans.

Trump steps back from hardline stance on deporting illegal immigrants