{"id":7009,"date":"2013-07-11T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2013-07-11T07:13:44","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T07:13:44","slug":"republican-request-national-guard-to-stop-chicago-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7009","title":{"rendered":"US National Guard to stop black Chicago violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chicagoguns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7012\" alt=\"chicagoguns\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chicagoguns.jpg\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chicagoguns.jpg 299w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chicagoguns-70x40.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 85vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>Gun violence in the black city of Chicago is so severe that a state lawmaker wants state police and the National Guard to assist the local cops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) is making the request.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am requesting with this press conference that Gov. Patrick Quinn order the Illinois National Guard (and) the Illinois State Police (to) come to Chicago and work with our mayor Ron (sic) Emanuel to provide safety for the children, especially,\u201d she said at a news conference in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Other state lawmakers accompanied Davis to recognize the severity of the problem, and the extent to which it carries beyond Chicago\u2019s troubled neighborhoods to the entire city and other parts of the state, but not necessarily to concur with her solution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the holiday weekend, 74 people were shot and 12 killed in Chicago, and Davis says the police don\u2019t have the manpower to make arrests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, she said that if these state personnel are called in, a special commission must be set up to make sure they have clear orders on what to do each day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe don\u2019t want them to have us fearing them also,\u201d she said. &#8211; CBS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun violence in the black city of Chicago is so severe that a state lawmaker wants state police and the National Guard to assist the local cops. State Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) is making the request. \u201cI am requesting with this press conference that Gov. Patrick Quinn order the Illinois National Guard (and) the Illinois &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7009\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US National Guard to stop black Chicago violence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,123],"tags":[986,3874,3875],"class_list":["post-7009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","category-world","tag-chicago","tag-gun-violence","tag-national-guard"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/chicagoguns.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7019,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions\/7019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}