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Fast As Lightning, Hard As Thunder, Another Southside SOE
posted (July 7, 2020)
Two weekend murders and a rise in armed robberies has prompted the state to declare another Southside state of emergency. It went into effect this morning at 3:00 am. And while you were sleeping, all gang neighbourhoods on the Southside were roused from their sleep by as many as 300 hundred police officers conducting raids and sweeps.

The Minister of National Security explained the reasoning at a press conference this evening at the Raccoon Street police station:

Hon. Michael Peyrefitte, Minister of National Security
"Late last week as you know one young man was murdered and over the weekend another one was murdered and one young lady was shot in the arm whilst holding a baby. Intelligence told us that it would only escalate from there and there would be further bloodshed. So over the weekend we had n choice but to ask the Governor General to enter us into another state of emergency where we can detain these persons of interest to prevent any further bloodshed. I remain convinced that we would not tolerate any lawlessness in this country. We are in the middle of a pandemic already, we don't need any more headaches, so a still message has already been sent to persons of interest and more stiff messages are about to come especially if they don't decide to straighten up."

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