As RedState reported, the Labor Day holiday weekend was another bad one for Chicago, Illinois, with the violent crime numbers and victim counts rising in what, sadly, has become an all-too common occurrence in The Windy City amid a war of words between Gov. JB Pritzker (D), Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D), and President Trump over the crime problems plaguing the city.
In the 37 shootings that occurred over the three-day period, 58 people were shot, according to the most recent data, with eight of the shootings being deadly:
The 58 people shot between Friday and Monday is approximately double the amount from the 2024 Labor Day weekend. In 2023, 39 people were shot, six fatally over the holiday weekend.
Not even ABC News could ignore the timing, writing that "Fewer than five hours after Trump posted a message on social media on Saturday criticizing Pritzker's handling of crime in Chicago, a mass shooting occurred in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago's South Side that left seven people wounded."
Naturally, Very Online Leftists who have previously purported to be very concerned about gun violence were not happy with such media framings:
This is not reporting. This is propaganda. pic.twitter.com/eUgbz5jSNp
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) September 2, 2025
On Monday, CNN had on Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez, a self-described "community activist" who also refers to himself as "alderperson," to talk about Trump's vow to send in the National Guard for some crime-fighting assistance. But in the middle of the segment, Sigcho-Lopez was asked about the weekend shootings and what more could be done.
You could see the wheels turning as he was trying to figure out how to answer the question. Somehow, the woke Democrat managed to blame, you guessed it, Trump for the violence:
SANCHEZ: And how do you respond, Alderman, I heard you sort of allude to it there, that there's more work to be done. How do you respond to the argument that there were something like 50-plus shootings, 53 people, 52 people, I should say, were shot in Chicago, 30 different shootings over the holiday weekend, seven people killed.
Aren't numbers like that still a problem that your city needs to address? What more can be done to address that?
SIGCHO-LOPEZ: Well, I think that what we need to be doing, what we need to do, is we also had a mass shooting, in a Catholic School. We also have had many, many instances where the administration has really escalated -- exacerbated the violence in our -- in our -- in our country, in our -- in our cities.
Trump is a dictator. I think we have to be very clear. He's trying to normalize violence. He's trying to normalize military deployment in American cities like L.A., D.C., Chicago, and many others to come.
But what we have not seen is really a systemic investment that will actually address the core issues. That mass shootings in my ward. One of them was a tragic shooting of an unhoused neighbor.
Chicago Alderman is asked what more can be done about the 50+ people shot over Labor Day weekend in his city.
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) September 2, 2025
His answer?
Trump is a dictator and is normalizing violence. pic.twitter.com/8NggG2wMuf
I think at this point, if one hasn't already, you just have to conclude that Democrats are okay with crime. Prove me wrong.
I mean, think about it. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) typically only sends in "surges" of law enforcement into the Golden State's large blue cities when he's in the hot seat nationally on them and wants to pretend he's "doing something." Meanwhile, Pritzker and Johnson want to pretend like they've got it under control, when clearly they don't.
As I've said before, Democrats are once again setting themselves up on the crime issue for the midterms just as they did in 2020 with their embracing of the "Defund the Police" movement. And if crime remains a top concern for voters in the coming months, some swing district Congressional Democrats are going to be in for a rude awakening come November 2026.
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