New York - The United States celebrates its Independence Day on Monday with parades, hot dog consumption competitions and fireworks amid heightened security scheme due to terrorism fears in New York and already traditional episodes of violence with firearms in Chicago.
Millions of Americans celebrate independence from the UK with enthusiastic celebrations, as a rich party music of the legendary country singer Willie Nelson to 10,000 people on a race track in Austin, Texas, and also solemn, like a Declaration of Independence reading in the National archives in Washington made by actors with clothing from colonial times.
Another historical event can occur in traditional competition hot dogs from Coney Island in New York. Joey "Jaws" Chestnut -which holds the world record of 69 hot dogs eaten in 10 minutes- will try to resume its International Belt Mustard Yellow Matt Stonie, who last year ended a sequence of eight consecutive wins Chestnut.
As the national holiday occurs days after the attack on the international airport in Istanbul, Turkey, the Department of the New York Police will mobilize eight new units of so-called sniffer dogs vapor trails, trained to detect explosives used by the body, he said Commissioner Bill Bratton on Friday.
The human presence in the department this holiday will have an increase of almost 2 000 new officers who graduated on Friday.
"As always we are able to use many features in New York, the key problem is that, when it comes to terrorist threats," Bratton said.
Chicago Police, a city that has witnessed a jump in deaths by firearms this year, announced a strengthened presence of more than 5,000 agents on patrol during the holiday weekend, usually one of the most violent of the year, said Superintendent of Police Eddie Johnson.
On Friday, local media reported that 24 people were shot in the previous 24 hours, three of them fatally.
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