{"id":36601,"date":"2013-07-12T07:11:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T11:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36601"},"modified":"2013-07-12T07:11:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T11:11:45","slug":"will-chicago-call-in-the-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36601","title":{"rendered":"Will Chicago call in the Guard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/jul\/10\/chicago-lawmaker-send-national-guard-stop-violence\/\"> Washington Times<\/a>, two Chicago lawmakers are asking the governor to call out the Illinois National Guard after the Independence day weekend during which 74 people were shot;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am requesting with this press conference that Gov. Patrick Quinn order the Illinois National Guard [and] the Illinois State Police to come to Chicago and work with our mayor, Rahm Emanuel, to provide safety for the children, especially, and for all who walk in Chicago. We deserve. We\u2019re important. Our kids are important,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housedem.state.il.us\/members\/davism\/index.htm\">State Rep. Monique Davis<\/a> said at a news conference at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, The News-Gazette reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, yeah, in case you might get the impression that Representative Davis is asking for the Guard&#8217;s intervention in the criminal behavior of the city, no she wants the Guard to undergo some sort of sensitivity training beforehand, so Chicagoans aren&#8217;t  frightened by their saviors. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She also asked that the governor appoint a task force to \u201cguide the behavior of the National Guard. We don\u2019t want them to have us fearing them also. We want them there for safety and protection.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, good luck, Illinois National Guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Washington Times, two Chicago lawmakers are asking the governor to call out the &hellip; <a title=\"Will Chicago call in the Guard?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36601\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will Chicago call in the Guard?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}