POLICE SAVE BLACK LIVES: Fifth-grader saved by cop on deadliest day in 13 years in Chicago

As we wrote yesterday, More Guns, Less Crime is more than a book, it’s scientifically proven fact.

Chicago has been home to some of the nation’s strictest gun control for generations now, and they’ve got the violent crime to prove it.

Monday, August 8th was just another day in the nation’s largest open-air shooting range.

The Chicago Tribune has the story:

Monday was the deadliest day in Chicago in 13 years, and 10-year-old Tavon Tanner got caught in the worst of the gun violence as he played with his twin sister on the porch of his Lawndale home.

…Tavon was among 19 people shot Monday in Chicago.  Nine of them were killed, marking the most homicides in a single day in the city since July 5, 2003, when 10 homicides were recorded, according to a Tribune analysis of police data.

Can you imagine 19 people getting shot in your community, with almost half of them perishing?  There would be hell to pay and outrage among the community.

But not in Chicago.

Back to Tavon’s story.  God bless this little 5th grade boy, just hanging close to home like a good boy and then the unthinkable happens:  he becomes the backstop for a round fired by warring gang members.  A Chicago Police officer saved the boy’s life in the aftermath.

It was still light outside when Tavon and his family heard gunshots down the street Monday evening.  A man in his early 20s had been shot in the head at a basketball court where Tavon was not allowed to play.  Two hours later, an older man was shot and killed about four blocks away.

Less than an hour later, someone fired as many as nine shots in front of Tavon’s home in the 3900 block of West Polk Street, hitting the fifth-grader in the back.  He collapsed as he followed his mother through the front door.

“I can’t breathe,” he kept yelling, banging his fists against the floor, according to his mother, Mellanie Washington.

Washington and her sister, Harmonie Murphy, rushed to the boy’s side. “He started gasping for air,” said Murphy, 33. “His eyes rolled back. … He was telling us that it was burning.”

A police sergeant ran up to the porch and helped Murphy and Washington undress the boy to find where he had been shot, according to the mother and aunt.  They turned him over and saw a gunshot wound to his lower back.

Tavon’s twin sister, Taniyah, sat next to him, holding his hand, trying to keep him calm, according to Washington. “Twin don’t leave me, twin don’t leave me,” she kept yelling.

Tavon continued beating the floor with his hands from the pain. Then he went limp, weakening as he fought to hang on. and started vomiting blood, his mother and aunt said

The sergeant ran to his squad car and brought back a first aid bag, they said. He took out gauze and applied it to the wound, putting pressure on it until paramedics arrived and put Tavon on the stretcher and took him away in an ambulance, the family said.

Tavon was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he underwent nearly four hours of surgery, Washington said.  The bullet damaged his pancreas, intestines, kidney and spleen as it entered his lower back and lodged in his chest, she said.

Black lives matter, just like all the rest of them.  This cop did his level best to save this innocent victim of violence in Chicago as any decent human being would do.

Are their cries for accountability for those who commit these crimes?  Is their support for making firearms ownership less burdensome for the law-abiding in Chicago so they can fight back against violent hoodlums that have no moral compass and no impulse control?

Nope.  There’s barely a peep of outrage by anyone, except for gun control hustlers, looking to impose more of the same failed gun control schemes upon Chicago and/or Illinois residents.