Chicago: The United States celebrates independence day with a parade, barbecue and fireworks, but in Chicago who hit the violence, 88 people were shot, 14 of them were fatal.
The violence of the weekend holiday came after the enhancement of the media and the attention of the police on a problem that had infected Chicago throughout the year, the third largest city in this country separated for more murders than 774 recorded in 2020 – which is the second most deadly year in two decades Finally and more than New York and Los Angeles are combined.
Holiday weekends are usually very deadly in Chicago, and therefore, Chicago City Council members take unprecedented steps from baking Superintendent David Brown police escort for six hours on July 2 about police strategies.
Apart from the meeting, 10 more were shot than last weekend, when 78 was shot, 10 fatal, opposite the city.
Last year 87 people were shot in Chicago, 17 fatally, during a four-day stretch which included 4.
July more than this holiday weekend, became the violence of the July 4 pistol year this year was worse.
Nationally, there were more than 400 shootings over the weekend of July 4 and at least 150 people died, according to data gathered by armail violence archives.
And together with five children who were shot this weekend in Chicago, two police officers – a commander and sergeant – was also shot early on Monday morning while trying to dissolve the crowd on the west side of Chicago.
They recovered from a soul-threatening gunshot wound.
Outside the hospital on Monday, Brown gave updates to the other four July seizure, including a 5-year-old girl, Sunday afternoon and four other children sped over the weekend in a separate incident.
“As we have seen too much, tragically, other people are targeted and unwanted targets, innocent children, beaten,” Brown said.
Fed up with the violence of the gun, mother and grandmother in Austin, one of the most violent Chicago environments, continued a hunger strike and slept in a tent in the parking lot of the bank left on the independence day weekend.
Women, aged 21 to 71 years, including Rosetta Dotson, 67, who lost three nieces of violence for years and Jackie Guider, whose son Chavar was shot by armed robbers on the streets of Chicago in 2016.
Sitting in a chair in the semi-circle In 90 degrees heat on Saturday, women pray and talk about their environment – Austin – what they love regardless of his reputation.
For them, the only way violence will stop is for the community to take action.
For Ms.
Jacqueline Reed, 71, everything was never dangerous in Austin.
The mother of three adult sons, Reed said she was not afraid of their safety when they grow up, but times have changed.
“I’ve never been afraid.
They drove a big wheel up and down the road and we didn’t have the fear that something bad would happen,” he said.