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Man points gun at news crew in broad daylight during live shot about crime in Chicago

May 26, 2022 | | Print Article

Cops are on the lookout for a Chicago man who allegedly menaced a film crew with a handgun on live television in broad daylight.

Fox 32 reporter Joanie Lum was at a street corner reporting on the gun crime rate in America’s third-most populous city when an individual standing behind her allegedly waved a weapon as he strutted by.

According to Fox 32, “Right now, police are calling this man a person of interest, accused of aggravated assault with a firearm,” and have requested the public’s help in identifying or locating him.

Fortunately, no one was harmed in the encounter.

On Twitter, Lum’s Fox 32 colleague Anita Padilla wrote that “It happened to @JoanieLum and her [photographer] at 7:06 am. The gun was one foot from her head as he pointed at the camera or cameraman Gary. She is understandably shaken. Thank God she is okay.”

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“Minutes before the incident aired, police responded to calls of a similarly-described man who was causing a disturbance just a couple of blocks away inside a Starbucks on the 500 block of North State. It’s not clear if the two incidents are related,” CWB Chicago repotted.

Separately, crime is out of control in Chicago under far-left Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot, with weekend shootings, in particular, a sad part of the landscape.

According to a website that tracks the grim statistics that seem to differ somewhat from official compilations, year to date, 236 murders have occurred in the city, more than 1,000 persons have been shot, and 213 of those were killed.

WGN reported on Monday that car theft has increased by 41 percent year over year, and other forms of robbery have increased by nearly 70 percent. “[S]hootings are down 15% and homicides are down 9%, according to data” provided by Chicago PD, the news outlet added.

Murders and shootings have increased, however, by 64 percent from 2021 in the downtown business district, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

Former Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass, an expert on Chicago politics, asserted on his blog that the Democrat-controlled city is at death’s door.

“Chicago is that once-great city by the lake that is now on the verge of dying from an overdose of uncontrolled, rising violent crime. It is a real place suffering real pain. Some say the city is on life support, which is a polite way of saying it is dying. And it’s not just Chicago. Violent crime is spiking in urban centers across America…In Chicago, every day the violent street gangs claim more innocent lives, in the neighborhoods, downtown, and on Chicago’s expressways where the innocent are shot while driving home from work,” Kass wrote, in part.

“Every day brings grim and bloody news from the city of anarchy, violence, and corrupt politics…”

All suspects are presumed innocent until or unless they are convicted in a court of law of any alleged crimes.

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17 thoughts on “Man points gun at news crew in broad daylight during live shot about crime in Chicago”

  2. You can see clearly it was not a gun. He played a cruel trick and could have been shot himself.

  3. If this had happened to an msm outlets news crew, this story would be national news, but, because it was a Fox affiliate, its not important…..

  4. Chicago a city known for some of the toughest Gun Laws in the Country is also Famous for the highest Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Yearly shootings and murders in the country. Guns are NOT the problem. Guns Do Not nor have the Every Killed anyone. I have a shot gun and a rifle in my closet and they have been there fro over a year and neither of them have killed anyone. The Problem IS NOT the Guns, it is the Government of Chicago and of IL, that allows Criminals out of jail. If you commit murder you should be given the Death Penalty. Many people say that this is not a deterrent and perhaps they are right, but one thing that cannot be denied and that is that that particular person will never murder anyone again.

  5. I guess she can thank God she was ONLY POINTED AT!! Idiots like the guy are the ones ending up in the ER’s and Morgues!

  6. And from the city with some of the strongest gun laws – what a joke! If they don’t start policing like they use to – nothing will get better. Can get good cops because they can’t do their job – total BS

    1. “Gun CONTROL”??? Chicago has a “kill rate” of only 15%! I’ve suggested designating a section of the city’s abandoned areas as “Free Kill Zones” where the gangs, thugs, nitwits, and other DEMOcrats can go and have at it!! NO CHARGES – NO TREATMENTS – NO SURVIVORS of GUNSHOTS! Take your chances and the WINNERS get to do it again next week!

    1. They’re mounted low enough for one to crawl over and access from the ground!

  8. Installing bleeding packs around the city….what a solution! How long before those are all stolen or damaged, rendering them useless? Instead of addressing the problem, which is criminal having access to the black market to get whatever they want, while law-abiding citizens are forbidden to have firearms for self-protection, even the state requires them to have a Firearm Ownership Identification Card. The gang bangers don’t have them, don’t need them, and don’t care that others can’t have firearms. In fact, they love it, because they know Joe or Jane Citizen isn’t going to be shooting back. Of course, Democrats don’t care to hear that, they think more laws are the solution, instead of enforcing the ones already on the books. Making the courts and the prosecutors actually do their jobs in getting criminals off the streets, instead of working on their campaigns. Ditto for the fat slob in the governor’s chair in Springfield and the legislators who refuse to see the solution as other than MORE INEFFECTIVE LAWS.

  9. Let Chicago burn!!!!! Just another shihole city that offers nothing good ever!!!! And the pizza sucks!!!!

  10. Hold on….I thought guns were pretty much illegal in Chicago. Don’t tell me this person is actually breaking the law!!! Shocking!

  11. Well, it IS ShitCongo after all… Lori rebuked Trumps offer of assistance as her city went down in flames, defund Po Po was the mantra, and those poor , misunderstood black folks just keep on murdering each other…
    But , if you look closely, it was actually the GUN that was carrying around that African.. I means , it’s always the guns fault, right ?
    And the fact that the gun was waving an african at the ” media ” does not really upset me… they are complicit in this whole thing….you rap what you sow….

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