At least 17 people were killed and over 40 injured in Chicago’s street violence over the weekend.
Two Chicago newspapers that analyzed police data from Friday afternoon to early Monday called it 2016’s deadliest weekend. Chicago police couldn’t immediately confirm that, though a spokesman said their weekend homicide count from Friday midnight through Sunday was 18.
Either way, the toll surpassed the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times’ analysis of holiday weekends when violence typically spikes. The Tribune reports six people were fatally shot over Memorial Day weekend, five over Fourth of July, and 13 over Labor Day.
The October weekend deaths included seven people under 20 years old. Seventeen-year-old twin brothers were killed in a Sunday drive-by.
There’s been a spike in street violence this year with over 600 homicides already.
(AP)
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So are their lives/deaths somehow less important because they weren’t killed by a single gunman??
And Chicago has the strictest gun control laws in the country!
The home of the democrat control city for over 75 years. A lot of good obuma did to help Chicago Now nobody can go there; it will become another Detroit
Black lives matter
Apparently the blacks don’t care that the WHITE Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, couldn’t care less about blacks. As long as he is a Liberal and a friend of Obama, that’s good enough. If he wanted, Emanuel could remain as Mayor forever as he would be unanimously elected again and agian. A couple of casualties here and there are still a lot better than having an Evil white bigoted racist law & order Republican as their leader. I never realized how dumb and stupid the blacks of Chicago were. Oh well.