, recorded that 956 people were shot between January 1 and April 26. It should be noted that the weekly data set provided by the newspaper reports the number of victims, not the amount of shootings.
At this point last year, 739 people were hit by gunfire in Chicago. A total of more than 4,130 people were shot in Chicago last year, the most in a single year since 2016, when more than 4,300 individuals were shot, and the second-highest since theThe number of shooting victims is likely to rise after another weekend of violence in Chicago. Forty-five people were shot, five fatally, in incidents across the city.
Last month, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called for federal gun control legislation after a 7-year-old girl was shot and killed at a McDonald's drive-thru. "Folks, we are living in madness if we don't step up and deal with this problem," Lightfoot said at a news conference. She added that she was"very satisfied" with what the police department has been able to do in"an impossible environment where we got to have help."
A Chicago Police officer monitors the scene after a shooting in Chicago, Illinois, on March 14, 2021. At least 15 people were shot, two of them fatally, after gunfire broke out at a South Chicago business where a party was being held. In Chicago, 956 people were shot in the first four months of 2020—217 more than the same point in 2020, which was a record-setting year for shootings in the Illinois city.
Clearly black lives don't matter
Democracy in action!Amazing, free people! Perhaps, same ones who were all for closing the police when Democrats used them as their bitches in their disgusting propaganda blm bullshit (that disappeared IMMEDIATELY after Biden got elected, even though the W/B shootings didn't stop)
But but but black lives matter
Where's the marching? Too many. We can do better!✌
All those feds sent to Chicago to stop the problem has made it worse. When you don't understand the problem then you should stay out of it Trump.
Where’s their half mast flag Joe
The Old West again ..
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