34 Shot, 5 Fatally, So Far In Chicago During Memorial Day Weekend

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Is this article factual? Because I don't know :patrice:

Chicago: New Mayor, Same Violent Holiday Weekend Results

https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/memorial-day-chicago-safety-violence-summer-510393171.html

Just before the long Memorial Day weekend began, Chicago’s new mayor was joined by Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and other community leaders as she detailed her plan for ensuring safety and preventing a surge in summer violence.

Lightfoot joined the Chicago Police Department and other agencies Friday to highlight the role authorities have in keeping the city safe.

“As my mother would say, if people are ‘acting a fool,’ there will be consequences,” Lightfoot said.

The plan includes an additional 1,200 officers on patrol and a special mass transit detail for trains and bus lines. Officers will also patrol high-traffic areas like beaches and popular downtown spots like Michigan Avenue as part of the city’s Summer Mobile Team.

34 shot, 5 fatally, so far in Chicago during Memorial Day weekend

By Sunday evening of Memorial Day weekend, Chicago police had responded to the shootings of 34 people, five of whom died of their injuries, officials said.

The grim tally grew as a shooting Sunday about 6 a.m. in the 1300 block of West Hastings Street left two dead and three injured. The shooting was possibly in retaliation for an earlier one in the same University Village neighborhood where large crowds had gathered, and which also left a man dead, investigators said.
 

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why is the concentration of black people in chicago so violent? this can't be real right

what is it about chicago that makes people so violent
 

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supposedly the cops left the scene of a murder at 1:30am only for a double murder to happen at 6:00am at the same exact spot.
i’m no crime statistician or nun but i know that cops put bodies on corners where murders occur for atleast 24-48 hours after the killing.

philly is almost just as violent as the chi (minus the gang culture) but one major difference is that the police commissioner here actually gives a fukk.

this is shameful
 

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why is the concentration of black people in chicago so violent? this can't be real right

what is it about chicago that makes people so violent
Although we do the majority of the shooting, it's not only blacks shooting shyt up out there.

But to answer your question, its poverty, drugs (Chicago is the cartels headquarters for the eastern part of the country) and deeply rooted gang culture.
 
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Is it cops killing citizens?
I hate when the media peddles this . They leave out important details imo . How many of the shootings occured in the same incident? How m
many after midnight?

The media will have you believing all the shootings are mid day & all black.
 

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why is the concentration of black people in chicago so violent? this can't be real right

what is it about chicago that makes people so violent
It doesn't really have anything to do with race or ethnicity.

Poverty, Population Density, Tribalism, and Drugs.

Basically no matter where it is or who it is, if you take a large number of poor people, stack them on top of each other, segregate them into tribes (gangs, religions, skin color, hell even if you simply speak a different language) and give them some type of small scale economy to fight over...

shyt is going to get wild. Brazil is wild. Israel is wild. Compton was wild.

They want you to believe its because of "hood culture" e.g. our music, our style, the way we talk.

But human beings have been wild on every continent in every climate, in every chapter of history.
 
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