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Pleading for Peace in Chicago: 'We Could Be Looking at a Blood Bath'
NY Times ^ | May 28, 2016 | Monica Davey and Mitch Smith

Posted on 05/28/2016 12:27:58 PM PDT by Zakeet

The holiday weekend is often seen here as the start of heightened violence ... That has been particularly worrying this year to community leaders and city officials, as they grapple with a rise in gun violence that has traumatized some neighborhoods and left city officials searching for new ways to subdue street crime.

"If something doesn't change, if we don’t get jobs for these kids, if we don’t change the economic situation, I'm worried that we could be looking at a blood bath," said the Rev. Corey Brooks, a pastor on the city’s South Side, a mostly African-American area where some of the shootings have been concentrated. "If something doesn't happen, I fear that we're potentially looking at one of the worst summers we've ever had."

As of Friday morning, homicides in Chicago were up 52 percent in 2016, compared with the same period a year ago, and shootings had increased by 50 percent, though the pace of violence has slowed in recent weeks, the police said. Only five months into the year, at least 233 people have been killed.

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Chicago's population of 2.7 million is nearly equally split among whites, blacks and Hispanics, but most of the shootings have taken place in black and Hispanic neighborhoods on the city's South and West Sides, and the majority of the victims have been African-American.

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You never let a crisis go to waste, and you know what that means ... we need to confiscate guns ... raise the minimum wage to $15 ... increase teacher pay ... and play more midnight basketball.

1 posted on 05/28/2016 12:27:58 PM PDT by Zakeet
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Why? Chicago has the most restrictive gun laws in the US. There shouldn’t be any there plus look at all those Gun Free Zone signs all around.


2 posted on 05/28/2016 12:29:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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Exactly. There are no guns in Chicago—they have gun control. How’s that working for them?


3 posted on 05/28/2016 12:32:48 PM PDT by jazminerose (o)
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To: Zakeet

Are there any majority white cities that have these marches for peace? Pleas for peace? Basketball for peace? Vigils for peace?

Somehow it’s all the fault of my white Polish immigrant grandparents.


4 posted on 05/28/2016 12:33:09 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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“If we don’t get jobs for these kids...”

As if that would solve the problem. The kids that are shooting people are gang-banging, drug dealing, feral inner-city “youths” that are not interested in either an education or 9 to 5 job. Both of things would interfere “wit dey bidnez”. Niggas gots to keeps it real, dontcha know.


5 posted on 05/28/2016 12:33:38 PM PDT by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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Black on black? It don’t matter none.


6 posted on 05/28/2016 12:35:48 PM PDT by Redleg Duke (Remember...after the primaries, we better still be on the same team!)
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To: Organic Panic

Where’s Rodney King when they need him?


7 posted on 05/28/2016 12:36:20 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus headsConservatus)
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To: Zakeet
if we don’t change the economic situation, I'm worried that we could be looking at a blood bath

Be it far from me to gainsay the pastor; but does he mean 'bring more money into the community'? If so, what: more money for the gangstas to fight to control? That's how it works, once gangs control the area and law is afraid to go in and bust it up. Otherwise, more money = more violence.

8 posted on 05/28/2016 12:36:31 PM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Zakeet

Any shootings this weekend will undoubtedly be in protest of NC’s restrictive transgender bathroom policies.


9 posted on 05/28/2016 12:37:04 PM PDT by PROCON (Proud Vietnam Vet! Please Remember & Honor Our Fallen this Memorial Day.)
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Yea gun free city i don’t get it...
Anyways we should get a FR pot going!

I say 18/47
18 deaths 47 shootings...
i know, i know i’m being seriously conservative here.
just hoping for the best....


10 posted on 05/28/2016 12:37:35 PM PDT by mowowie (`)
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The Bolsheviks will unite in Chicago — and send their anarchist shock troops to Cleveland.


11 posted on 05/28/2016 12:38:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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"Chicago's population of 2.7 million is nearly equally split among whites, blacks and Hispanics, but most of the shootings have taken place in black and Hispanic neighborhoods on the city's South and West Sides, and the majority of the victims have been African-American."

Let me go waaaaaay out on a limb: The vast majority of both the shooters and their victims are Black and Latino gang members.

Of course, Chicago, Illinois and the Feds can't or won't crack down on street gangs because they are an essential component of the Democrat political machine.

http://heyjackass.com/

12 posted on 05/28/2016 12:38:51 PM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Every nation has the government it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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♪ ♫ ♬ ...Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin’ town... ♪ ♫ ♬


13 posted on 05/28/2016 12:39:24 PM PDT by Carriage Hill ( A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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After this weekends more violent, anti white showing of Roots, I expect violence.


14 posted on 05/28/2016 12:40:03 PM PDT by nclaurel
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These shootings are not driven by ideology. They are the end result of five decades of liberalism; fatherless families and gimme welfare mentality. You can’t reason with these people. It would be like telling my tomcat, “Listen TJK, I don’t want you harming rodents anymore, you hear? We got a deal?”


15 posted on 05/28/2016 12:40:56 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Migraine

The law would probably be happy to go in and bust it up, but as far as driving around with a target on their back, with ROEs like Afghanistan, I can totally sympathize with their position.


16 posted on 05/28/2016 12:41:07 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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"If something doesn't change, if we don’t get jobs for these kids..."

Most of those "kids" don't want jobs. Not legal jobs, anyway. Outside of being an NBA or NFL superstar. Nor do they want to go to school and get a diploma or degree.

Solution: cut off the baby mamas' welfare checks. ...for starters.

17 posted on 05/28/2016 12:42:52 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Sooth2222

Of course, Chicago, Illinois and the Feds can’t or won’t crack down on street gangs because they are an essential component of the Democrat political machine.

Keep in mind that in the Soviet Union there was a great
distinction between criminals and political prisoners.

Criminals were always considered politically reliable
elements despite their crimes.


18 posted on 05/28/2016 12:43:16 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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As of Friday morning, homicides in Chicago were up 52 percent in 2016, compared with the same period a year ago,

Thanks to the #BLM movement.

19 posted on 05/28/2016 12:44:21 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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“get jobs for these kids”

The reason they don’t have jobs is they are too stupid and incapable of the self-discipline required to have a job.


20 posted on 05/28/2016 12:45:40 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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