{"id":2017010,"date":"2023-08-30T15:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-tv-crew-mugged-while-reporting-on-robberies\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T16:05:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:05:59","slug":"chicago-tv-crew-mugged-while-reporting-on-robberies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-tv-crew-mugged-while-reporting-on-robberies\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago TV crew robbed while covering robberies."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fchicago-tv-crew-mugged-while-reporting-on-robberies%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=2017010&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--><h2>TV\u2063 News Crew Robbed \u2063While Covering Crime in Chicago<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/example.com\/police-officer-chicago.jpg\" alt=\"A police officer \u2062in Chicago\"><br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A TV news crew \u2064covering\u200d armed\u200c robbers\u2063 in Chicago\u2064 were themselves robbed this week, as the city continues to struggle with a surge in crime.<\/p>\n<p>The two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/search-and-rescue-teams-at-site-of-indonesian-plane-crash\/\" title=\"Search and rescue teams at site of Indonesian plane crash\">crew members<\/a>, \u2063a\u2064 reporter and photographer for Univision \u200dChicago, were standing on the street in the city&#8217;s Wicker Park neighborhood on Monday when \u2064two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-tv-crew-mugged-while-reporting-on-robberies\/\" title=\"Chicago TV crew robbed while covering robberies.\">vehicles pulled<\/a> up\u2063 and three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/saudi-arabia-releases-womens-rights-activist-family-says-its-not-yet-freedom\/\" title=\"Saudi Arabia Releases Women\u2019s Rights Activist; Family Says It\u2019s Not Yet \u2018Freedom\u2019\">masked men<\/a> with guns took their \u200dequipment and belongings, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2023\/08\/29\/tv-news-crew-robbed-chicago\/70706695007\/\">according<\/a> to <em>USA Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The identities of the victims \u200bhave not \u200dbeen released, \u200cbut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-red-flag-laws-result-in-66-firearm-confiscations\/\" title=\"Reports: Red flag laws result in 66 firearm confiscations\">police reported<\/a>\u2064 that\u200b they\u2062 were not injured. No arrests were made as of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The story is the latest example of Chicago&#8217;s struggle with crime and violence.\u2062 Dozens of people are <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/8-year-old-killed-in-chicago-dozens-shot-in-weekend-violence\/\">shot<\/a> and several killed on \u200da weekly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Crime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/crime-spikes-38-in-chicago-during-brandon-johnsons-first-month-in-office\">increased<\/a> by 38 percent \u200din\u2064 the month after Democratic mayor Brandon Johnson took\u2062 office\u2062 in May. In \u200clate July, robberies\u200b were up 17\u2062 percent compared with the same \u2063time last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/home.chicagopolice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/1_PDFsam_CompStat-Public-2023-Week-31.pdf\">according<\/a> to police data, and were \u200dup by 30 percent \u2064in the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>A Democratic \u2062Chicago alderwoman <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/chicago-democrat-asks-gang-members-to-limit-shootings-to-nighttime\/\">asked<\/a> gang members this \u200cmonth to limit their shootings and murders to the\u200c evening hours.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Alderwoman Maria\u200c Hadden, in an email newsletter,\u200d promoted a \u200bproposal from the community\u2063 group\u200b Native Sons \u200bcalled &#8220;the \u200bPeople&#8217;s Ordinance,&#8221; which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-democrat-asks-gang-members-to-limit-shootings-to-nighttime\/\" title=\"Chicago Democrat urges gang members to restrict shootings to nighttime.\">asks gang members<\/a> to \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/cwbchicago.com\/2023\/08\/chicago-group-want-gangbangers-to-refrain-from-firing-guns-between-9-a-m-and-9-p-m.html\">not<\/a> \u2064 shoot between 9 a.m. and 9 \u200cp.m.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A TV news crew in Chicago covering armed robbers fell victim to a robbery themselves. The Univision Chicago reporter and photographer were standing on a Wicker Park street when the incident occurred. This unfortunate event highlights the ongoing struggle the city faces with a surge in crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":2017011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017010","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}