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1. chicagoreader.com › shoot-to-kill-shoot-to-maim“Shoot to Kill. . . Shoot to Maim” - Chicago Reader

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   Apr 4, 2002 · How Richard J. Daley’s most infamous pronouncement may have overshadowed (and excused) a vastly more ominous episode during the riots following Martin Luther King’s assassination.

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2. thetriibe.com › 2020 › 06COMMENTARY | 1968: When the whole world was watching, the ...

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   Reading President Trump’s tweet, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” reminded me of Mayor Richard J. Daley’s order to “shoot to kill” any arsonists and to “shoot to maim or cripple” any looters in the wake of the urban uprising on the West Side following Dr. King’s assassination.

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3. www.yahoo.com › news › 1968-dnc-chicago-devolvedHow the 1968 DNC in Chicago Devolved into ‘Unrestrained and ...

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   Aug 14, 2024 · Amid the riots in the wake of King’s murder, Chicago’s longtime mayor, Richard J. Daley, ordered his police to “ shoot to kill arsonists and shoot to maim looters.” And Robert F. Kennedy was...

4. www.bunkhistory.org › resources › how-the-1968-dncHow the 1968 DNC Devolved into ‘Unrestrained and ... - Bunk

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   Aug 14, 2024 · Amid the riots in the wake of King’s murder, Chicago’s longtime mayor, Richard J. Daley, ordered his police to “shoot to kill arsonists and shoot to maim looters.” And Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated while running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

5. www.chicago68.com › ricsummThe Walker Report Summary, excerpted from Rights in Conflict ...

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   The police were generally credited with restraint in handling the first riots—but Mayor Daley rebuked the Superintendent of Police. While it was later modified, his widely disseminated "shoot to kill arsonists and shoot to maim looters" order undoubtedly had an effect.

6. www.chicagomag.com › city-life › april-2018What Happened During the West Side Riots of April 1968

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   Apr 5, 2018 · Daley told reporters after the riots that he had ordered police, “to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand… to maim or cripple anyone looting any stores in our...

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   Did Daley's “shoot to maim” overshadow a more ominous episode?

   • Shoot to Maim” How Richard J. Daley’s most infamous pronouncement may have overshadowed (and excused) a vastly more ominous episode during the riots following Martin Luther King’s assassination. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on Thursday, April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. The next night there were riots in over 100 cities. Dr.

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   Did Richard Daley's “shoot to kill” overshadow a more ominous episode?

   • Shoot to Maim” “Shoot to Kill. . . Shoot to Maim” How Richard J. Daley’s most infamous pronouncement may have overshadowed (and excused) a vastly more ominous episode during the riots following Martin Luther King’s assassination. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on Thursday, April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.

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   Did Daley say'shoot to maim'?

   • Daley aides insisted he’d never said “shoot to maim.” He’d said “shoot to detain.” Routine inquests were held into each of the riot deaths, and Heineman wrote stories for the Sun-Times on the first two west-side verdicts: death by “person or persons unknown.” Neither story ran in the paper.

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   Why did Mayor Daley make a'shoot-to-kill-arsonists-and-maim-L?

   • In April 1968, after the black west-side riot triggered by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Mayor Daley made public his famous shoot-to-kill-arsonists-and-shoot-to-maim-looters order.

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   Was Daley concerned about his legacy?

   • Though no one in the audience seemed even slightly interested, Daley was concerned about his legacy. But that legacy will always include most famously, “Shoot to kill…shoot to maim.” It was an order, Heineman would much later recall, that “led to renewed tension and ultimately contributed to the later police riot at the Democratic Convention.”

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   What was Mayor Daley's speech about?

   • Just months before he died in 1976, Mayor Daley gave an impassioned speech defending his actions in 1968 to a gathering of the Cook County Democratic Party. Though no one in the audience seemed even slightly interested, Daley was concerned about his legacy.

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   Aug 20, 2021 · In April 1968, after the black west-side riot triggered by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Mayor Daley made public his famous shoot-to-kill-arsonists-and-shoot-to-maim-looters...