#Tucker on the crime problem and the grinches who rob volunteers and burn down Christmas trees

 

[VIDEO] I'm sharing this segment from Tucker Carlson Tonight on FOX News with you today because the commentary you see by host Tucker Carlson discusses some local events that perhaps you missed. Most certainly I missed these events.

To bring home some of the points Carlson is discussing here is there needs to be a reckoning on the crime issue nationally. Certainly it's an issue not just in the city where last weekend a group of youths converged near Millennium Park to cause enough issues for the police to start making plans to address any future disturbances. Basically as a reaction problem as this issue has been going on for a while as this isn't the first time I wrote about youths coming to downtown to cause problems as theft, vandalism, or even just causing major disturbances.

So he starts off with attacks on Christmas trees because well tis the season. And the first thing he mentions was that a group of My Block My Hood My City volunteers were robbed putting up holiday decorations in the history south side Bronzeville neighborhood. 

BTW, if you don't want to listen to Carlson here's a story from CBS Chicago. According to the article this crime occurred at 48th & King Drive and part of a team of volunteers putting up Christmas decorations from  35th Street to 115th Street.

Store owner shot & killed during robbery in Park Manor

[VIDEO] A store clerk was killed in a shooting Friday afternoon when his store on the first block of 71st Street was robbed. As always be careful out there thankfully four suspects have been arrested. Two of those suspects are in the hospital for gun shot wounds.

More from Chicago Sun-Times.

And as always be careful out there. 

Wounded victims describe fatal bank robbery

A Chicago Tribune article (from today) talking about the trial, which involves the robbery and murder at Illinois Federal Savings and Loan 4 years ago.

A retired school teacher and security guard calmly recounted in federal court today how they were shot and wounded four years ago when three masked men stormed into a Chatham neighborhood bank.

One of the alleged suspects, David Vance, is on trial in federal court in connection with the takeover robbery in which teller Tramaine Gibson was fatally shot.

Customer Dorothy Sanders told jurors she realized a bank robbery was underway that day in May 2007 when she saw a man running inside Illinois Federal Savings and Loan as she met with the branch manager.

See the rest of the article here --> Wounded victims describe fatal bank robbery

Robbers take mailbox key from carrier

From Chicago Breaking News, on Saturday, April 16...

Two men robbed a mail carrier of his mailbox key at gunpoint -- but gave back the keys to his vehicle -- this afternoon in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

The mail carrier was in the 7800 block of South Indiana Avenue a little before 12:30 p.m. when he was confronted by two men, at least one of them armed, said Chicago Police News Affairs

The rest of the story here... Robbers take mailbox key from carrier Comments in the story included the speculation that the mailbox key could be used to gain access to homes (for burglary/robbery), whether inside the home or your checks (such as tax refunds). So please be on alert!