{"id":1064043,"date":"2021-11-29T09:28:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1064043"},"modified":"2021-11-29T09:28:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T14:28:50","slug":"philadelphia-breaks-three-decade-old-homicide-record-over-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philadelphia-breaks-three-decade-old-homicide-record-over-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Breaks Three Decade Old Homicide Record over Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphiladelphia-breaks-three-decade-old-homicide-record-over-weekend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1064043&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/shootings-in-philadelphia-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Mayor Jim Kenney\u2019s (D) Philadelphia reached the figure of 501 homicides for the year on Friday, surpassing the annual homicide record of 500 set back in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>6 ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/philadelphia-shooting-homicide-record-2021-murders-gun-violence\/11273352\/\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;the city\u2019s 501 murder occurred around 9 p.m. Friday \u201con the 7100 block of Ardleigh Street in East Mount Airy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The victim was a male who was shot five times. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Gun violence is ravaging other Democrat-run cities around the country as well.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/28\/chicago-thanksgiving-weekend-nearly-40-shot-into-sunday-morning\/\">noted<\/a> nearly 40 people were shot in Mayor Lori Lightfoot\u2019s (D) Chicago by Sunday morning alone during Thanksgiving weekend and HeyJackass.com <a href=\"https:\/\/heyjackass.com\/\">pointed out<\/a> that 3,486 people have been shot and wounded in Chicago so far this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2486486486486\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#8217;s very simple: live in Democrat-controlled cities and states and experience predictable and tragic outcomes. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Os8ccZorv7\">https:\/\/t.co\/Os8ccZorv7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1403311441621491712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another 738 people have been shot and killed in Chicago during 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Bill Peduto\u2019s (D) Pittsburgh is also grappling with gun crime. Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/22\/police-blast-philadelphia-da-after-shooting-death-of-pregnant-woman\/\">observed<\/a> that Pittsburgh\u2019s&nbsp;Deputy police commissioner Christine Coulter blasted the District Attorney, suggesting lax gun prosecutions, after a pregnant woman and her baby were shot and killed November 20, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Daily Mail<\/em>&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10230143\/Seven-month-pregnant-Philadelphia-woman-32-shot-dead-unloaded-gifts-baby-shower.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;the deceased, 32-year-old mother,&nbsp;Jessica Covington, was shot and killed while unloading gifts she had received at a baby shower.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy commissioner Coulter said, \u201cChildren are getting shot, unborn children getting shot, what is the city doing about this?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The trend has been building for years:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\">ahawkins<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Homicides are surging in Democrat-controlled Baltimore as well.<\/p>\n<p>On November 26, 2021, WMAR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmar2news.com\/news\/local-news\/baltimore-city-year-to-date-homicide-count-for-2021\">showed<\/a> 308 homicides year-to-date in Baltimore versus 300 on the same date in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat-controlled Washington, DC, is seeing a spike in homicides too. Axios <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/washington-dc\/2021\/11\/29\/dc-homicide-spike\">reports<\/a> the number of homicides in DC is higher than it has been since 2003.<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>&nbsp;and the writer\/curator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Jim Kenney\u2019s (D) Philadelphia reached the figure of 501 homicides for the year on Friday, surpassing the annual homicide record of 500 set back in 1990. 6 ABC reports\u00a0the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}