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• A 14-year-old boy on Saturday was charged with allegedly murdering an older teen who was walking with friends on the South Side earlier this week.
  
  The slain 17-year-old boy – identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office as Dejuan Jackson – was shot once in the head at 7:07 p.m. Wednesday in the 4000 block of South Lake Park Avenue, police said.
  
  Jackson, of the 3900 block of South Lake Park Avenue, had been walking with friends when the shooter opened fire, police and officials with the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
  
  He was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, where he was pronounced dead.
  
  The 14-year-old, who police would not name because of his age, has been charged as a juvenile with one count of first degree murder, one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm and two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, police News Affairs...

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• The bodies of two males were found in the trunk of a parked vehicle this morning in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
  
  Police were called to the 2400 block of West 45th Street at 10:11 a.m. when they found the bodies in the trunk of a parked vehicle, said police News Affairs....

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• HR yesterday Wednesday the 26 after 1600 made calls to inform candidates that they had made it on for a class tomorrow Friday the 28th show time 0645. So these people exited and ready quit jobs on a days notice and for the ones that live outside the city probably spent the day trying to establish residency. But of course today after 1700 the night before they begin work, they have been called again and told sorry class starts next week Friday the 5th!

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• Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he’s decided to hold the line on taxes, fines and fees in his 2013 budget and count on rebounding revenues, continued cost-cutting and dunning deadbeats to erase a revised 298ドル million shortfall.
  
  "Through the reforms and cuts and efficiencies, we’ll be able to have a budget that’s balanced without any taxes, fines or fees that we control. The only tax that will be dealt with is the employee head tax—and that will be eliminated," Emanuel said.

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• A veteran Chicago cop was ordered held in lieu of 100,000ドル bail Friday on charges he had sex with a prisoner he’d promised to release from the West Side lockup where the officer was stationed.
  
  Officer Nelson Stewart, 59, stood silently in court dressed in a red and white jacket and black pants as prosecutors detailed charges of custodial sexual misconduct, official misconduct and bribery, all felonies. He did not speak except to say he understood he could not have contact with the victim or witnesses if he is released on bond.
  
  Authorities said the incident occurred in early June in the lockup at the Harrison District police station, 3151 W. Harrison St., where the alleged victim was under arrest for prostitution.
  
  Stewart, a 24-year-veteran of the department, was in charge of the station’s male lockup facility when he approached the victim’s cell and offered to release him in exchange for a sexual "favor," Assistant State’s Atty. Lynn McCarthy said.
  
  The officer then "relocated the victim to a different cell furthest away from the lockup keeper’s desk," where the two performed sex acts on each other, McCarthy said. The victim later reported the incident to the district watch commander, who contacted the department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs.

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• In the latest legal fight between protesters and local authorities, a Cook County judge on Wednesday threw out the charges against 92 Occupy Chicago demonstrators arrested in Grant Park last year, saying the law used against them was unconstitutional.
  
  
  The city had arrested and charged the protesters last October for not leaving the park after it closed at 11 p.m.
  
  
  But Cook County Associate Judge Thomas More Donnelly wrote in a 38-page ruling that the curfew law violates the right of free assembly.
  
  
  In his ruling, the judge said the city treated the Occupy Chicago rally differently than the Obama 2008 presidential election victory celebration in Grant Park. The judge noted that the Obama rally also violated the curfew, but no one was arrested at that event.

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• Chicago’s Inspector General is out with his latest list of options that could help the city reduce its nearly 300ドル million budget shortfall.
  
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  "They’re absolutely not recommendations in the sense that we’re endorsing any one or more," Ferguson said.
  
  For example, he said the city could save more than 5ドル million by reducing the number of paid holidays for city workers.

• He also resurrected an old, controversial idea – reducing the minimum staffing on fire trucks from five firefighters to four. That move could save 71ドル million a year, according to Ferguson’s report.
  
  "In many instances, the same level of safety and operational efficiency can be achieved with four on a rig," Ferguson said.

• .... The police side of the ledger – civilianizing positions in the various administrations of the Police Department – we estimate preliminarily that could save as much as 3ドル.6 million a year," Ferguson said.

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• After dropping seven of their past eight, the Chicago White Sox need just to simply play better and not be consumed with the success of American League Central leader Detroit, which extended its lead to 1 1/2 games earlier Thursday.
  
  "If you need to be told what to do, or you need a pep talk right now, then you might as well walk out that door and ‘see ya,’ " Sox designated hitter Adam Dunn said before the Sox opened a four-game series against Tampa Bay.

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• Hey SCC, just got word that four officers excluded from the promotional class will be added in Thursday morning. Hope they didn't miss too much so far.

• With Chicago’s murder rate capturing national headlines, Police Supt Garry McCarthy is on the defense, touting recent progress his department has made in the fight against crime.
  
  Still, headlines and news stories continue about murder after murder in Chicago, but are the numbers they telling the whole story?
  
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  On patrol Monday, McCarthy talked candidly about the bloodshed in Chicago that has drawn national attention.

• A man was killed and a person critically hurt in separate shootings on the South Side overnight, police said. The fatal shooting occurred about 9 p.m. Monday in the 8800 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue in the Burnside neighborhood, police said, citing early reports.
• Patterson was walking home from a family get-together with her sister early this morning, and was passing Carter and other neighbors at Eggleston and 120th when a dark-colored car drove past and someone inside opened fire, according to family and police. Patterson, 25, was dead at the scene. Carter, 38, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead.
• A former employee of the CeaseFire violence prevention program was fatally shot today in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side, officials said.
• An autopsy conducted today determined that a man whose body was found by city workers in a garbage bag in Marquette Park Monday was shot to death.
• An autopsy today determined a 55-year-old South Loop man died Monday in part from injuries he suffered during an assault, authorities said.
• A hooded gunman shot and killed a 20-year-old man on the street hours after another man was slain in the same South Side neighborhood, Chicago police said this morning.
• A 17-year-old boy was fatally wounded this evening in a shooting on the South Side in the city’s Oakland neighborhood.

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• Reputed Outfit lieutenant Rudy Fratto, nicknamed "the Chin," was sentenced to about 1 year in prison today for a bid-rigging scheme at McCormick Place.
  
  Fratto’s family was visibly relieved when U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber announced the sentence.
  
  Federal sentencing guidelines called for Fratto to be sentenced to up to 2 years in prison, but federal prosecutors sought an even stiffer prison term, arguing Fratto used his association with organized crime to further the scheme. He is an alleged member of the Outfit’s Elmwood Park street crew.
  
  But Leinenweber ruled the evidence was unclear that Fratto was a made member of the mob and he couldn’t make a connection between Fratto’s wrongdoing and organized crime. He also noted Fratto’s age of 68.

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• Two Chicago Police officers are suing the city and Chicago police Supt. Garry McCarthy’s office, claiming a paperwork error has unfairly kept them from being promoted to the rank of sergeant.
  
  Kenneth D. Fowler and Jarrod L. Smith filed the suit Monday in Cook County Circuit Court. Both claim they were among the top 200 scorers among thousands of test-takers when the city last offered the police sergeants exam in 2006, according to the suit.
  
  They had been scheduled to take a five-week training class required to assume the rank of sergeant starting Monday, they claim. But neither is allowed to attend because they claim the city’s Human Relations Department lost their college transcripts, and refused to re-schedule them to take the class after they hand-delivered the documents Friday.

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• Two people were killed and two others wounded early Tuesday when the occupants of a vehicle opened fire into the car the victims were sitting in in the Far South Side West Pullman neighborhood.
  
  
  The shooting happened about 2:37 a.m. in the 400 block of West 120th Street, according to police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines. The victims were sitting in a car when a dark-colored SUV pulled alongside and someone inside opened fire.

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• An off-duty Cook County prosecutor allegedly bit a man in the leg during a scuffle outside a lingerie shop over the weekend, and she was charged with misdemeanor battery and trespassing, authorities said Monday.
  
  
  Sarah Naughton, 31, of Chicago, will be placed on administrative duty and won’t be allowed to litigate while her case is pending, said Sally Daly, a spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
  
  
  Naughton and Bradley Gould, 31, were in Taboo Tabou at 854 W. Belmont at 7:25 p.m. Saturday, police said. Witnesses said they appeared intoxicated and were causing a disturbance, police said.
  
  
  They were asked to leave and were on the sidewalk outside the store when Gould allegedly shoved the manager of the next-door store, the Blue Havana cigar lounge. Then, Naughton allegedly bit the Blue Havana manager in the leg, breaking the skin.

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• A former employee of the CeaseFire violence prevention program was fatally shot today in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side, officials said.
  
  Marlon Lee, 36, was driving when his car came to rest on the 6100 block of South Woodlawn Avenue at about 10 a.m., police said. The Cook County medical Examiner's office said he was shot on the 1200 block of East 65th Street.
  
  Lee of Chicago Heights, was found shot in the back and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:45 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

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• OT- but hilarious. My buddies work in 020 and were ordered to get contact cards by the end of their shift. They were told if they did not get any they were to drop a TO-FROM if they did not. At the end of their tour the Sgt was upset and said drop paper.
  
  Now I don't remember what was written on the to from but it was something like, show me where there is an order where R/O has to write a contact card and where is the quota?. The Sgt takes it and Trahanas-sp, gets ahold of the paperwork. She flips out and goes to roll call and goes off on the P.Os. She tells on of the P.O.s, "I looked up your activity for the year, you have not written a mover all year, is this correct?' Officer says, "No, I have not written a mover in 7 years".
  
  She then tells them that she is going to ride with them that night and show them how to get contact cards and movers. You can't make this shit up. It is freaking hilarious. Sounds like the Sgt was trying to bully that watch into getting contact cards and was called on his bluff. And then penny to actually go out and ride with them?

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• Dangling the use of light poles, streets, alleys, freight tunnels and unused city-owned fiber, Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried Monday to jump-start his predecessor’s failed plan to establish high-speed Internet access to under-served Chicago neighborhoods, industrial corridors and public spaces.
  
  Emanuel hopes to succeed where former Mayor Richard M. Daley failed by leveraging his plan to rebuild Chicago’s crumbling water and sewer system and by dividing the city into 15 commercial corridors with a separate competition in each zone.
  
  Free wi-fi is already available in Millennium Park, thanks to an agreement quietly reached with Chicago-based SilverlP Communications.

• Plague and rat-borne disease will decimate the gang banging elements, thereby driving down crime

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• Chicago police shot and wounded a man who, according to a police union official, advanced an officer while wielding a tire iron late Sunday night in the South Austin neighborhood on the city's West Side.
  
  
  No officers were injured in the shooting that occurred just before 11:30 p.m. in am alley in the 200 block of North Lockwood Avenue, according to Chicago police and the Independent Police Review Authority.
  
  
  Officers assigned to violence reduction in the area stopped to question four men in an alley near Fulton Street and Lockwood Avenue when two of the men ran away, said Pat Camden, a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police, which represents the department's rank-and-file officers.
  
  
  As the officers chased after the fleeing men, one of the cops hopped a fence to search a nearby alley when he was accosted, according to Camden.
  
  
  "All of a sudden the bad guy jumps out of the bushes with a tire iron in his hand," Camden said.
  
  
  "Needless to say, he got shot," Camden said.

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• Officers hovering overhead in a Chicago Police helicopter spotted a band of suspected burglars breaking through the roof of a retail clothing store on the far South Side Saturday, prosecutors said today at their bond hearing.
  
  
  The five men allegedly cut a hole in the roof of J Bees Sports & Casual Wear, 1301 E. 87^th Street, shortly after midnight intending to make off with merchandise, according to court documents. That’s when the patrolling police helicopter spied the alleged burglars and radioed for backup.
  
  
  Leaving a bolt cutter, pick axe, sledge hammer, pry bar atop of the building, the men hid in the building’s basement until they were found by police and arrested.

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• a couple of stabbings;
• a drowning;
• more traffic fatalities than we care to count;
• a dozen shot;
• half a dozen dead;

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• Blame it on the weather. Chicago's rat problem appears to be scurrying right along, thanks to the mild winter.
  
  The number of Chicagoans calling the city to complain about rats is up 28 percent, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
  
  Since July, the city's 311 center has received almost 15,900 calls from residents, compared to the 12,000 over the same period last year. Residents can also file rat complaints online at cityofchicago.org and request city crews visit properties that provide conditions susceptible to rats. Crews can then issue "rat stoppage tickets" to owners.

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• Four months after Chicago’s failure to repair a crumbling downtown viaduct — despite a task order generated by a call to 311 — cost taxpayers 450,000,ドル Mayor Rahm Emanuel is implementing a tracking system to make certain it won’t happen again.
  
  The technology upgrade will make the process of calling 311 — to get a pothole filled, a tree trimmed or a broken streetlight replaced — like using FedEx to send a package, under the plan reported by the Chicago Sun-Times last spring.
  
  The "service tracker" feature will allow people who call 311 for 14 of the most requested city services to track their service requests from the time they are submitted and receive an email when the issue is resolved.

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• I have exciting news to share with you. Thanks to your support, Cure Violence has worked tirelessly for 12 years to stop shootings and killings in cities around the world. By approaching violence as a disease that can be stopped, we charted a new way that uses the same science-based strategies used to fight cholera and AIDS.
  Treating violence as a disease is more than a metaphor or a model. It is a movement that changes how people think about violence.
  That’s why I am so pleased to announce today that CeaseFire is becoming Cure Violence.

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• Chicago should impose a "safety and security fee" — as high as 5ドル a month on homes and businesses — to generate the 70ドル million needed to hire 700 additional police officers, an influential alderman said Thursday.
  
  
  Ald. George Cardenas (12th), chairman of the City Council’s Health Committee, said Chicago desperately needs a surge in police hiring to ease a severe manpower shortage that has hamstrung the city’s ability to stop a surge in homicides and shootings.
  
  
  If a 5ドル "safety and security fee" was tacked on to the monthly electric bill of Commonwealth Edison’s one million residential and 170,000 business customers and remitted to the city, it would generate the 70ドル million needed to bolster the force by 700 officers and bolster community policing, Cardenas said.

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• The Chicago Police Department was unable to locate a "significant volume" of evidence and property found or seized by its officers because the 2.2 million items are being inadequately protected, documented and stored, the city’s inspector general has found.
  
  
  During a seven-month audit that ended on July 20, Inspector General Joe Ferguson found that police employees "could not locate" 2.8 percent of items sampled from inventory records, nor could they find documentation for 3.8 percent of physical inventory sampled.
  
  
  "Therefore, we conclude that [police] internal controls failed to ensure that evidence and property were adequately protected, properly documented and readily available when required," the audit states.

• A Police Department edict requires desk sergeants to ensure that all property approved for transfer to the Evidence and Recovered Property Section be sent there within seven days.
  
  

  But on April 11, the IG found that 38,394 of 41,302 items already approved for transfer had either not yet arrived at either of the two facilities or had been improperly logged by section employees.
  
  
  Chicago Police Department spokesperson Melissa Stratton said CPD worked "in partnership" with Ferguson to conduct the audit and has developed "rigorous new procedures" in response to its findings "to ensure the integrity of our facilities and any ongoing investigations."

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• This year's Chicago Kilt Run benefits the Police Chaplains Ministry and the Fire Chaplains Ministry.
  
  Starting at 10:00 a.m. this Saturday from Trinity Pub at 5943 N. Northwest Hwy in Chicago, come run / walk 5K through Norwood Park with countless folks dressed in traditional kilts. (If you don't own a kilt, don't worry! Any outfit is fine.)
  
  Party continues all day and into the evening with bands, food and other entertainment right back at the pub.
  
  This event, while held in/outside of Trinity Pub, IS FAMILY FRIENDLY with kids' attractions, kid-friendly food and soft drinks, face painting, and clowns like Sgt. Neal McLoughlin strolling around.
  
  Hope you can make it for at least part of the festivities!

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• U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s political future again came into question on Wednesday after the revelation that he and his wife had put their four-bedroom Victorian home in Washington, D.C., on the market for 2ドル.5 million.
  
  A Jackson spokesman initially could not elaborate on why the South Side Democrat was putting his house on the market, but Jackson’s office later issued a statement blaming mounting medical bills, presumably from his recent bout with bipolar depression, as the reason behind the sale. The Jacksons took out a 400,000ドル loan against the house just two years ago.

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• Police are offering a 5,000ドル reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those responsible for breaking into a police stable and injuring several horses last weekend.
  
  
  Late Sunday night, officers assigned to the mounted stable unit arrived on the grounds of the South Shore Cultural Center and found 27 horse out of their stalls, [...]
  
  
  The horses were circling inside the stable’s arena and were shaking. The officers discovered that a rear window was used to get inside the facility in the 7000 block of S. South Shore Drive...

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• Named in honor of "Casper Lauer" one of the first Chicago Police Officer to be "killed in the line of duty" and dedicated to all Police Officers in the nation killed serving their communities All Police and Civilian motorcyclist of any manufacture and all non motorcyclists are welcome to be our guests, as we remember and celebrate the lives of Police Officers through out the Nation, "killed in the line of duty" and support their survivors. American Knights M/C of Chicago All proceeds will be donated to the Gold Star Families and the Chicago Police Memorial fund. Line up begins and 10am run starts at 11am. Food, Drinks, Music, -20ドル donation.

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• Today at Midway Airport CPD was called to a unattended suitcase on the baggage claim belt. The person who got the call opened the bag and along with a few articles of clothing was a couple thousand dollars in plain view. All the cash was in bundles of 50's and 100's. No ID of any kind inside or outside the luggage. Every penny was inventoried. SCC, this has happened a few times in pasts years Where something very similar was found in homes and other areas where police received some kind of call. I have no doubt this was all a setup to nail a copper. Please post a warning. Don't want anybody getting caught up in a sting. Things like this would convince even the most honest cop stash some in their pocket.

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Big surprise there.

And once again, either by accident of by design, the Tribune reveals the crime increase that Rahm and Garry insist isn't really there:

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And over the weekend, something like 7 killed and nearly 30 wounded.

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And a description of the conference:

Milwaukee? Didn't they just run into some problems with their version of CompStat downgrading serious assaults and similar crimes? And check out the list of featured speakers:

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Then the opening sentences:

Are we counting police shootings in the "killings" category now?

But the phrase Sun Times uses is "gun violence." Hope over to the Tribune site and you can find these two stories without even trying today:

Whoops - not "gun violence," so don't look over here.

Ah, ah, ah....not "gun violence" so probably doesn't even rate a mention. But if they ever find the car and the driver (a big "if" at this point), or the robbers who chased him into traffic (another "if") they'll be charged with homicide.

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She's not the only one:

And she moved her entire family to Washington DC.

But this one is the best:

Really? Who in their right mind thinks that stringing a volleyball net over the street at two in the f#$%ing morning is normal? The cognitive disconnect is amazing.

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Don't worry dumbfuck, we'll put our best people on it right away. Enjoy your shortened lifespan by the way, because we're pretty sure you've got next, one way of the other.

And the mayhem continues Saturday into Sunday night:

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Combined with the police shooting (see below), Friday definitely started with a bang. And ABC is still in town filming? Oh boy.

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We've seen this sort of behavior in Third World countries. And now we can say we've seen it here....again:

How many hundreds of man hours wasted here? Open law breaking, at least one gun at a funeral for someone who glorified gun violence, and it didn't stop at the wake:

A funeral procession "meander[ing]?" Even traffic laws and common courtesy mean nothing.

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A couple of commentators noticed the questions that weren't asked (or answered):

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One of our commentators related that the officer was dragged almost 100 feet by the car. News Affairs is stating "non-life threatening injuries" if the media reports are accurate. That's all well and good that we aren't attending a funeral and all, but Densey Cole ended up suffering what turned out to be "non-life threatening injuries" and he might never walk unassisted again. The officer shot a few weeks back in the leg was also "non-life threatening," but reports since suggest he has undergone and will undergo additional surgeries for knee damage that will leave him with a limp forever.

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Poor guy. Shot in the leg and groin. Ouch.

Uptown Update gets to the bottom of it pretty quickly though:

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The south side finally broke though with a number of shootings, but only one dead:

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Because you know Rahm's family didn't go through all the tedious hassle of applying for passage, following the rules, taking citizenship tests, etc. They just appeared one day and ....what? They didn't? They followed the rules? Hmmmm. Imagine that.

But then this appears on Channel 7 the exact same day:

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