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Crime has surged in certain areas amid the violent riots and destructive protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, according to Fox Business.
Minneapolis has been heavily affected, as well as New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, which have all seen an upswing of burglaries, shootings, and even, in some cases, murders.
In Las Vegas, a 29-year-old officer was shot on June 2, as police tried to disperse a large crowd of protesters in front of a casino shuttered because of the novel coronavirus.
He remains on life support at this time.
In California, a deputy Sherriff was shot in the head but survived an “ambush” by a gunman intent on harming or killing police and authorities said that night.
The shooter opened fire in the back of a police station, according to San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson.
After wounding the San Luis Obispo County deputy in the small city of Paso Robles, police believe the shooter killed a transient and then eluded an intense manhunt.
A slew of high ranking police officials in a number of cities, including Boston, Washington, Atlanta and New York have all had their personal information leaked and shared on social media.
It includes their email addresses, phone numbers, and even home addresses, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Minneapolis police received just over 130 shots-fired calls and found six people shot in the 24 hours leading up to Saturday, May 30, alone, according to the report.
In Chicago, the city saw it’s most deadly 24 hour period in 60 years with 18 people killed on May 31, according to a report by the Chicago Sun-Times.
That same weekend, 24 people were killed and at least 61 others were wounded, deeming it Chicago’s most violent weekend of the year so far, the Sun-Times reported.
Between June 2 and June 8, 148 burglaries were reported in Minneapolis.
The week of 5/31 to 6/6, homicides went up 250% and victims shot went up 56% compared to the previous week.
The past 24 hrs has seen 4 shootings, one of those resulting in a homicide. Detectives are following leads to ID & arrest the suspects—but we’re also asking for your help pic.twitter.com/UXwZD7pPze
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) June 9, 2020
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Protests have been held in cities and towns around the world calling for an end to police brutality and systemic racism. But public and elected officials have said the protests have devolved in some cases into organized riots, and some opportunists have used the diverted police attention as a chance to commit crimes.
The racial tensions and political climate have also prompted attacks on police in parts of the nation.
— Advertisement — Minneapolis saw five times more shootings between when civil unrest began in the wake of Floyd’s death and June 4th than the same time last year, the Star Tribune reported. Nineteen people were shot and two people were killed during the period. In one fatal shooting, Calvin L. Horton Jr. was gunned down by a white pawnshop owner outside the store on the night of May 27.
Horton, a 43-year-old black man, is believed to have been the first person to die since the protests broke out.
Minneapolis Police Department Crime Data shows 250 burglaries reported between May 26 and June 1, a 220.5 percent increase, or 172 more than the total two weeks earlier. Between June 2 and June 8, 148 burglaries were reported.
In other instances, caravans of 10 or more cars would pull up to a store, smash the windows, then wait nearby to see if police would arrive. If they didn’t, some of the same cars would return to load up with goods and speed off.
