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It was one of the searing images of the rioting in downtown Chicago last summer: a man wearing a Joker mask standing in front of a police sport-utility vehicle engulfed in flames.
The graffiti-strewn SUV was one of seven Chicago Police Department vehicles and one CTA vehicle torched in the Loop last May 30. More than 60 other arson fires were reported across the city over the next few days of anti-police rioting sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis after a white police officer kept his knee on the neck of Floyd, who was Black.
The fires set downtown by rioters after Floyd’s death were only one element, though, in a year that saw a major increase in arson. Over the course of 2020, hundreds of other arson fires were reported in Chicago. The number of fires authorities deemed suspicious was up nearly 65% last year over 2019, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis of city crime data shows.
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Calling ghost guns a favored weapon for LA criminals, Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer is suing the nation s top dealer. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)
LOS ANGELES, CA Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced a lawsuit this week against Nevada-based Polymer80 for allegedly violating federal and California law by selling ghost gun kits online. Untraceable ghost guns are the emerging weapon of choice for criminals, here in L.A. and around the country. We re fighting to stem this tide at a time when gun violence is devastating neighborhoods in our city, Feuer said. Nobody who could buy a serialized gun and pass a background check would ever need a ghost gun. Yet we allege Polymer80 has made it easy for anyone, including felons, to buy and build weapons that pose a major public safety threat.