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Gun Violence Archive August 31, 2020
Published latest figures
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un Violence Deaths
Total Number ALL Causes: 28,114
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Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU: 12,010 |
Officer Involved Incident- Killed: 42 |
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Officer Killed or Injured-Injured: 236 |
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Suicide: 16,104 |
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Officer Involved Incident- Killed: 891 |
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Total Number of Injuries: 24,713 |
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured- Injured: 639 |
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Mass Shootings: 415 ♦ Mass Murders: 15 |
Defensive Use: 935 |
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Number of Children (age 0-11) Killed: 195 ♦ Injured: 455 |
Unintentional Shooting: 1,442 |
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Murder/Suicides-Incidents: 373 |
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Number of Teens (age 12-17) Killed 656♦ Injured 1,875 |
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[DGU (Defensive gun use) is a labeling of firearm “use or presentation” as “self-defense,” “defense of others”; or, in some cases, “protection of property”; a contentious notion, particularly in US gun politics and criminology, in terms of its relevance to or “effectiveness in providing safety and reducing crime.” DGU themes rise often in “discussions over gun rights, gun control, and armed police, open and concealed carry of firearms.”]
News media reporting from Portland, Oregon, August 29, 2020
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resident Trump and the “Praying” “Patriots”
Pro-Trump rally organizer, “who recently coordinated a similar caravan in Boise, Idaho, said in a video posted Saturday on Twitter that attendees should only carry concealed weapons and the route was being kept secret for safety reasons.”
Incidents
“The caravan gathered earlier in the day at a suburban mall”; then grouped and “drove to the heart of Portland.
In its third consecutive Saturday of rallying, a caravan of “Trump supporters” arrived in downtown Portland “just as a planned protest was getting underway. The chaotic scene came two days after US President Donald Trump, “in a speech at the Republican National Convention,” had “invoked Portland as a liberal city overrun with violence.”
“As they arrived in the city, protesters tried to stop them by standing in the street and blocking bridges.”
Video footage “showed sporadic fighting … [and] Trump supporters firing paintball pellets at opponents and using bear spray as counter-protesters threw things at the Trump caravan.”
“An Associated Press freelance photographer” reported hearing “three gunshots” then seeing “police medics attending a victim….” The photographer also said the injured person “was wearing a hat bearing the insignia of ‘Patriot Prayer.’”
Police Department Statement
Police reported the victim had been “shot in the chest” and “was not immediately identified.” The identity of the shooter was “unclear.”
“Police issued a plea for videos, photos or eyewitness accounts of the killing late Saturday night, which happened about 15 minutes after a caravan of about 600 vehicles that were part of a ‘pro-Trump’ rally left downtown.
It wasn’t clear if the shooting was related to the clashes between Trump supporters and counter-protesters in Portland.”
Day before incidents
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ortland’s Chief Executive to US Chief Executive August 28, 2020
“We have already seen your reckless disregard for human life in your bumbling response to the COVID pandemic. [W]e know you’ve reached the conclusion that images of violence or vandalism are your only ticket to reelection.… When you sent the Feds to Portland last month, you made the situation far worse. Your offer to repeat that disaster is a cynical attempt to stoke fear and distract us from the real work of our city. …
“Yet again, you said you offered to aid Portland by sending in federal law enforcement to our city. On behalf of the City of Portland: No thanks. We don’t need your politics of division and demagoguery.”
“Stay away, please.”
Portland, Oregon-native Edward Tevis “Ted” Wheeler
The current mayor of Portland holds graduate degrees in public policy and business administration from Harvard and Columbia, respectively, and a baccalaureate from Stanford. Before being elected as Portland’s mayor, Oregon’s 28th Treasurer (March 11, 2010 – January 1, 2017) and Multnomah County Commission Chair (2007–2010).
US President Donald Trump is without a single qualification for the position he holds. Sarah Iannarone, running to unseat Portland’s current mayor also is without a single qualification for the mayoralty. Perhaps she would be suited for some job where her experience as “small business founder, owner, and operator” would be relevant and useful.
Day After incidents
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heeler to the US president August 30, 2020
“To act as though [you are] shocked (at the shooting Saturday) is appalling to me.…
“It’s you who have created the hate and the division…
“You’ve tried to divide us more than any other figure in modern history and now you want me to stop the violence that you helped create …
“… America needs … you to be stopped so we can come back together as one America.”
Please, Mr. Accidental 45th
Go back to where you came from—
Brit
Mark Burnett’s unreality telly world of “Apprentice” (clb)
Sources
Gun Violence Archive “Gun violence and crime incidents are collected / validated from 7,500 sources daily” Incident Reports and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website.
Data Sources Verified: August 29, 2020
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
Defensive Gun Use (DGU) Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_gun_use
Associated Press via KPTV “Patriot Prayer founder: Dead man in Portland was a supporter” by Gillian Flaccus Associated Press, contributor AP freelancer Paula Bronstein, August 30, 2020 Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. https://www.kptv.com/news/patriot-prayer-founder-dead-man-in-portland-was-a-supporter/article_39ac2c38-647b-5e11-bc6d-f415283b495d.html
Portland Government “Mayor Wheeler’s Open Letter to President Trump” News article August 28, 2020 https://www.portland.gov/wheeler/news/2020/8/28/mayor-wheelers-open-letter-president-trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Wheeler
https://ballotpedia.org/Sarah_Iannarone#Biography]
https://ballotpedia.org/Ted_Wheeler
The Oregonian/OregonLive “Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler to President Donald Trump: ‘support us’ or ‘stay the hell out of the way’” by Hillary Borrud August 30, 2020 https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/08/portland-mayor-to-president-donald-trump-support-us-or-stay-the-hell-out-of-the-way.html
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