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International Desk: A shootout outside a funeral parlour left 14 people wounded Tuesday in Chicago, as President Donald Trump threatens to send federal agents to a handful of US cities led by Democratic mayors.<\/p>\nInternational Desk: A shootout outside a funeral parlour left 14 people wounded Tuesday in Chicago, as President Donald Trump threatens to send federal agents to a handful of US cities led by Democratic mayors.<\/p>\n
The incident started when occupants of a vehicle “began firing at attendees of a funeral. At that time the attendees of the funeral exchanged fire,” Chicago deputy police superintendent Eric Carter told reporters.<\/p>\n
Shootings have become breathtakingly normal this summer across the\u00a0United States. A total of 63 people were shot and 12 killed over the weekend in Chicago in ongoing gun violence, according to local media.<\/p>\n
Carter said 14 people were wounded in Tuesday's shooting, but did not specify the degree of severity.<\/p>\n
“Too many guns are on our streets and in the hands of people who should never possess them,” Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot tweeted after what she called a “horrific mass shooting.”<\/p>\n
Trump's threat to send more military-garbed law enforcement into US cities has mainly been in response to the anti-racism protests rocking the country following the death of African-American George Floyd at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer in May.<\/p>\n
After the Department of Homeland Security deployed scores of Border Patrol police and federal marshals — many in combat fatigues — to Portland, Oregon last week, Trump said he could do the same in other Democrat-led cities like Chicago and New York.<\/p>\n
“Under no circumstances will I allow Donald Trump's troops to come to Chicago and terrorize our residents,” mayor Lightfoot tweeted late Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to reports, DHS was preparing to send 150 paramilitary personnel to Chicago after police there clashed with demonstrators seeking to tear down a statue of Christopher Columbus.<\/p>\n
Trump called the move necessary, even claiming Chicago was “worse than Afghanistan.”<\/p>\n
The president has also singled out Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore and Oakland as potential cities for sending federal agents.<\/p>\n
On Monday, the mayors of six major cities — Atlanta, Washington, Seattle, Chicago, Portland and Kansas City — said in a letter to Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf and Attorney General Bill Barr that the uninvited paramilitary deployments violate the Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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