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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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To: Zakeet

Cultural rot and the loss of a civil society, aided by the destruction of the family unit and government indoctrination in public schools.

Chicagoistan.


61 posted on 05/28/2016 3:51:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Jobs, yeah, right, the reason people kill others is because they don’t have jobs. Sure. Of course.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3323664/posts


62 posted on 05/28/2016 6:20:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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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.

63 posted on 05/28/2016 6:21:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: Zakeet

if we don’t get jobs for these kids

Why not send them to Mexico where the Jobs went to??


64 posted on 05/28/2016 6:26:36 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: jazminerose

How do all these poor blacks that dont have id, get guns?!?!

/s


65 posted on 05/28/2016 6:32:28 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Zakeet

They don’t trust each other, so why should we?


66 posted on 05/28/2016 6:52:23 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Zakeet

67 posted on 05/28/2016 6:54:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Robert DeLong
That would be June 2012. Thanks, anyway.
68 posted on 05/28/2016 7:15:22 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus headsConservatus)
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To: Zakeet
"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

Well preach, arm ALL the black folks. Nothing wrong with a good blood bath, as long as it's all the bad-guys' blood.

While you're at it, arm all the people of Chicago. Just have the cops do traffic accident reports, write tickets.

69 posted on 05/28/2016 7:43:52 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Trump: A Bull in a RINO closet.)
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To: Popman
each and every one of them will be put in a deep dark prison hole for a long, long, long time

Just treat them like the terrorists they really are.

70 posted on 05/28/2016 8:24:55 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Trump: A Bull in a RINO closet.)
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