{"id":49108,"date":"2025-11-23T08:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49108\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:16:07","slug":"trump-says-chicago-are-calling-for-action-after-recent-crime-wave-in-democrat-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/49108\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Chicago are calling for action after recent crime wave in Democrat city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0on Saturday said Chicagoans are asking to \u201cbring in Trump\u201d amid a recent crime wave in the Democrat-run city.<\/p>\n<p>At least eight teens were shot, one fatally, and multiple\u00a0police officers\u00a0were attacked Friday after a riot broke out in the Chicago Loop, the city\u2019s downtown central business district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMassive crime and rioting in the\u00a0Chicago Loop area. Multiple Police Officers attacked and badly injured. 300 people rioting, 6 victims shot, one critical and one DEAD,\u201d Trump wrote Saturday in a Truth Social post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the meantime, Governor Pritzker and the Low IQ Mayor of Chicago are refusing Federal Government help for a situation that could be quickly remedied,\u201d he added. \u201cThe people are chanting, BRING IN TRUMP!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The riot, which followed a Christmas tree lighting ceremony, broke out near State and Randolph streets at about 10 p.m. Friday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/news\/chicago-police-swarm-downtown-after-reported-shooting-following-tree-lighting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fox 32 Chicago reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>City Alderman Brian Hopkins of\u00a0Chicago\u2019s 2nd Ward\u00a0said 300 juveniles were rioting and attacking officers with mace and stun guns.<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump speaks to reporters outside the White House on Nov. 22, 2025. GRAEME SLOAN\/POOL\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Police investigate a shooting outside the Chicago Theater in The Loop on Nov. 21, 2025. AP<\/p>\n<p>At least one officer was hospitalized with injuries, he confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>At least six children were shot, including a 13-year-old, two 14-year-olds, a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Less than an hour later, a 14-year-old boy was\u00a0shot and later died\u00a0at a hospital. An 18-year-old man was also wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The violent weekend came days after a\u00a0man with a lengthy criminal history\u00a0was accused of ruthlessly setting a woman on fire while riding on a Chicago train. AP<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Reed is charged with committing a terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transportation system. Chicago PD<\/p>\n<p>Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks in Chicago on Nov. 11, 2025. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>The violent weekend came days after a\u00a0man with a<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/21\/us-news\/chicago-career-criminal-lawrence-reed-had-over-70-arrests-before-setting-woman-on-fire-in-train-attack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> lengthy criminal history<\/a>\u00a0was accused of ruthlessly setting a woman on fire while riding on a Chicago train.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Reed, 50, who officials said \u201chad no business being on the streets,\u201d is charged with committing a terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transportation system.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson later called the train attack an \u201cisolated incident.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Records show Reed has been arrested at least a dozen times since 2017, with charges including felony aggravated arson and multiple instances of battery.<\/p>\n<p>Despite prosecutors\u2019 request to keep him detained, a\u00a0blue city judge\u00a0released him back into the community with an ankle monitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0on Saturday said Chicagoans are asking to \u201cbring in Trump\u201d amid a recent crime wave in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8287,303,153,5350,9,11,10,87,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-49108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-news","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}