{"id":585058,"date":"2021-07-07T11:51:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585058"},"modified":"2021-07-07T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T15:51:24","slug":"undercover-chicago-police-officer-atf-agents-shot-in-shock-attack-as-city-handles-record-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/undercover-chicago-police-officer-atf-agents-shot-in-shock-attack-as-city-handles-record-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Undercover Chicago Police Officer, ATF Agents Shot In Shock Attack As City Handles Record Gun Violence"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fundercover-chicago-police-officer-atf-agents-shot-in-shock-attack-as-city-handles-record-gun-violence%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=585058&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\/02\/GettyImages-1257498014.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An undercover Chicago police officer and two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) were shot on Chicago\u2019s far south side Wednesday morning in a shock attack that occurred as the three, who riding in the same car, were attempting to pull onto a highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cOne officer from the Chicago Police Department and two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) agents were shot around 5:50 a.m. near the intersection of 119th Street and the ramp onto Interstate 57, Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said at a press conference,\u201d according to Fox News.&nbsp;\u201cThe three officers were riding in the same unmarked, undercover vehicle attempting to enter the freeway when they were fired upon from the street, Brown said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three officers were wounded, but none of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening, according to the Chicago police department. The two ATF officers were hit in the hand and torso, respectively, and the Chicago police officer \u201cwas grazed in the back of the head by a bullet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Wire noted Tuesday, Chicago is coming off a record-breaking weekend of violence, with more than 100 people shot and 18 people killed in gun violence across the city. Police officers and children were among the weekend\u2019s wounded; today\u2019s victims are the third, fourth, and fifth law enforcement officials to be shot in the city of Chicago in less than a week.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s shooting also marks a grim milestone for the city: the CPD officer shot Thursday is the 36th officer to be wounded or killed in the line of duty in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s incident happened just outside of the Chicago Police Department\u2019s&nbsp;22nd Chicago Police District headquarters, which serves the city\u2019s Morgan Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Brown told a press conference on Wednesday that the officers who were shot were performing a \u201cdangerous\u201d duty at a particularly difficult time to be a cop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur officers are performing their jobs at the highest levels. They\u2019re risking everything to protect the people of Chicago,\u201d he said. &nbsp;\u201cAnd this includes our collaboration with ATF. ATF officers are also giving everything to protect the people of Chicago. No one would do what these officers do. This is a very challenging time to be in law enforcement, but they are rising to the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe work that they do is extremely dangerous,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One Chicago alderman <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/chicago-shooting-morgan-park-police-atf\/10867819\/\">told the city\u2019s ABC News affiliate<\/a> that the city is \u201cunder siege\u201d from street gangs and that both city and federal officials must do more to stop the violence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother example of just where we\u2019re at as a city,\u201d 19th ward alderman Matt O\u2019Shea told the network. \u201cOur communities are under siege. Our police officers are under siege; they\u2019re outmanned and they\u2019re outgunned. We have 100,000 gang members in the city of Chicago right now; they\u2019re all armed. They\u2019re emboldened. They have absolutely no fear, no respect for life, no respect for the communities that they come from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House has, so far, focused on addressing what the Biden administration considers to be lenient federal gun laws. President Joe Biden is expected to meet briefly with Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot at the city\u2019s O\u2019Hare airport&nbsp;Wednesday before making a campaign-style stop in a Chicago suburb located more than an hour drive from the city center, <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/columnists\/2021\/7\/6\/22565608\/joe-president-biden-meets-with-mayor-lightfoot-at-ohare-on-wednesday-will-speak-in-crystal-lake\">according to the Chicago Sun-Time<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An undercover Chicago police officer and two Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) were shot on Chicago\u2019s far south side Wednesday morning in a shock attack that occurred &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314158,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1257498014.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Undercover Chicago Police Officer, ATF Agents Shot In Shock Attack As City Handles Record Gun Violence","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-585058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1257498014.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Undercover Chicago Police Officer, ATF Agents Shot In Shock Attack As City Handles Record Gun Violence","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585058","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}