A mass shooting has left 14 people injured after an ambush at a funeral home on Chicago's South Side. Pictured police are on the scene outside the funeral home after a shooting in the Gresham neighborhood of Chicago. The shooting was part of an on-going Gang War.
First Deputy Superintendent Eric Carter (pictured) said the mass shooting began when a black vehicle sped along the road outside the funeral home traveling west on 79th Street and people inside began firing shots at funeral attendees
The funeral attendees returned fire on the vehicle which then crashed, with its occupants fleeing (pictured: the scene)
Carter said they could not confirm how many shooters there were on both sides but a total of 60 shell casings had been recovered from the scene
the horrifying moment mourners are shot at while standing outside the funeral home. A dark car is seen pulling up by the pavement where attendees of the funeral are gathered. Gunshots can then be heard and the people run for cover from the bullets
The car pulls forward and more shots can be heard amid the screams, before it reverses out of view
Police investigate the shooter car
Police photograph the crime scene. At least 60 bullets were fired in the shootout, when people inside a car opened fire on the funeral party, who then returned fire on the vehicle
Family members of the victims pictured later in the night waiting outside one of the nearby hospitals
Armed children as young as 10 have helped carry out at least 16 carjackings across Chicago in the last few weeks.
President Trump has vowed to send troops into a number of cities run by Democrats, saying the 'radical left' will 'destroy' the country
Chicongo officers showered with dangerous projectiles
49 officers were injured as rioters threw fireworks, frozen bottles, cans and other items during a protest in Grant Park, Chicago. The rioters used umbrellas as shields (pictured)
Police walk around at the site of the covered Columbus statue after rioters attempted to topple it. Police were guarding the monument when they were hit with fireworks
Chicago Police Superintendent David O. Brown claimed that the protest descended into a 'mob action' that 'deliberately sought to injure officers'
a metal bar thrown at officers by rioters
a firework exploding just beside the officers guarding the statue
Rioters hurled fireworks at police in Chicago
The rioters attempted to pull down a Christopher Columbus statue
Some graffiti visible on the statue
A huge crowd of protesters cheered in celebration as Chicago announced plans to topple its Christopher Columbus statue
Removal: Chicago's statue of Christopher Columbus is hoisted away by a crane in the early hours of this morning, watched by a municipal crew who helped to remove it from Grant Park overnight
Under cover of darkness: Hours after news spread that mayor Lori Lightfoot had sanctioned the statue's removal, crews used a large crane to remove the monument in Grant Park from its pedestal
No more: The Columbus statue in Grant Park, pictured as it looked in May 2019, is the latest monument to the Italian explorer to come down
City crews inspect the straps that are around the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park as they begin to remove it following violent protests over the monument and attempts to tear it down with ropes
Also overnight, city crews removed a smaller monument (above) to Columbus in Chicago's Little Italy neighborhood. The bronze statue was first displayed in the Italian Pavilion at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago's first World's Fair
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (above) ordered the statues' removal after protesters gathered outside her home
Protesters gathered at the intersection near Lightfoot's home
Around 2,000 people were gathered in the area near the mayor's home
Thousands of Black Lives Matter demonstrators took to the streets to march on Mayor Lori Lightfoot's house
Crews used a large crane to remove the statue from its pedestal
The view from outside the park as the statue is hoisted off its pedestal by a giant crane and brought back to ground level
A crane removes the Christopher Columbus statue in Grant Park from its plinth
Rioters cheer as the statue is driven away from Grant Park
Police walk around at the site of the covered Columbus statue after protesters attempted to topple it Friday. Police were guarding the monument when they were hit with fireworks
Protesters gathered demanding the mayor defund the Chicago Police Department
demonstrators blocking an intersection, forcing cars on four sides to turn around
Lorenzo Anderson was the first person killed in the Seattle CHOP zone
Donnitta Sinclair Martin (pictured) is taking Seattle city authorities to court after her 19-year-old son Lorenzo Anderson died in hospital following the shooting
Budding rapper Anderson was the first person killed in the CHOP zone
Police entered the zone after the shooting and said they were trying to get help to the victims but they were met with angry crowds
The CHOP autonomous zone on the day Lorenzo was shot and killed
Family members, including Donnitta Sinclair-Martin (center), mother of Horace Lorenzo Anderson, gather for a group photo during a memorial
Friends of Lorenzo Anderson gather at a tribute to him
OPERATION LEGEND: FEDS' SURGE IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, SPREADS
Operation Legend is named for four-year-old LeGend Taliferro, who was asleep in his mother's apartment in Kansas City, Missouri, when he was killed by gunfire from outside the home.
The killing came amid a 40 per cent increase in homicides in the city so far this year.
the city's mayor welcomed help from the Department of Justice to crackdown on killings.
A total of 100 FBI, U.S. Marshals, DEA and ATF were ordered by Attorney General Bill Barr to surge into the city, working with local police to tackle violent crime.
The operation is intended to bring an 'increase in prosecutions'
A statue of President Thomas Jefferson is defaced with paint and graffiti outside the Multnomah County Justice Center in Portland, Oregon
Protests have taken place across Portland for almost two months
Demonstrators chanting
Demonstrators barricading the doors of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse in Portland
protesters carrying makeshift shields outside the Portland courthouse
Demonstrators are seen carrying umbrellas and makeshift shields
Myke Tabarres leading chants
Protesters duck behind makeshift shields while wearing helmets and other guards
Federal agents are seen standing outside the courthouse
Protesters are seen entering the perimeter of the courthouse
Portland Police Association president Daryl Turner (right) and Portland City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty (left) exchanged a fierce war of words at a city council meeting earlier in the day where Hardesty said cops could be setting fires in the city during protests to stoke unrest
the 56th straight day of unrest in Portland
A protester attempts to throw a burning box over a fence outside the courthouse separating them from federal agents
A protester wielding a hockey stick
Federal agents put out a fire inside the perimeter of the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse
A protester runs toward a gap in the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (above), a Democrat, was among those tear-gassed. He was jeered by protesters and a demonstrator threw shrapnel at his feet
Demonstrators tried to kick down a steel fence set up to keep them at a distance from agents
Rioters attempted to remove the fence by pulling on a rope outside the courthouse
In New York City, the goal of the Occupy City Hall demonstration was to secure at least a $1 billion cut from the NYPD budget
The park outside City Hall will now be on lockdown for weeks as clean-up crews move in to clear debris and graffiti from nearby buildings and statues
A sanitation crew is seen jet-washing graffiti off of the side walk on Wednesday morning, with colored scrawl covering much of the street
Clean up crews are seen scrubbing the outside of a Subway booth
The clean up will take several weeks, the encampment stood for more than a month
Shatavia Walls, 33, died from being shot at eight times on July 7 after she asked a group of people to stop setting off fireworks near a playground in Brooklyn
Walls' mother Helen Testagros is seen with two NYPD community affairs officers who stopped by Tuesday at Brooklyn's Pink Houses
Testagros said her daughter was following the advice of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams (pictured), who last month urged residents to 'go talk to the young people or the people on your block who are using fireworks' instead of calling 911 or 311
Walls was hit in a barrage of bullets at 1259 Loring Ave in the Pink Houses (above) after she asked a man in her neighborhood to stop setting off fireworks. She later died from her wounds
Over the last month, the NYPD has had $1billion stripped from their budget and their Anti-Crime Unit disbanded, even as crime upticks. Pictured: Protesters clashed with police at the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan
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