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Five children have been shot in back seats of their parents' cars in Chicago this year, and only one has survived
CBS News Local ^ | October 3, 2022 | By Sabrina Franza

Posted on 10/04/2022 7:35:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

CHICAGO (CBS) -- It has been happening with frightening regularity – children in Chicago are being shot, and in many cases killed, while riding in cars with family.

As CBS 2's Sabrina Franza reported Monday, one child of course is too many. But there have been five kids shot this year in Chicago while sitting in the back seats of their parents' cars.

"We actually are seeing relatively the same numbers as we saw last year, and last year was definitely an uptick from the prior year," said Dr. Marion Henry, a pediatric trauma surgeon at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital.

Henry sees pain play out over and over again. This year, 70 kids ages 15 and under have come through the emergency room doors at Comer – all of them shot and wounded.

"They are in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the injuries can be devastating - and sometimes, you know, catastrophic," Henry said.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; children; democrats; drugs; gangs
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1 posted on 10/04/2022 7:35:58 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Don’t black people have a right to kill themselves? Who cares?


2 posted on 10/04/2022 7:39:06 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wrong emphasis in the headline. Actual number of victims buried. No mention of the perpetrators or their motives. The media sucks.


3 posted on 10/04/2022 7:41:18 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist in )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Great job fighting crime, Beetlejuice.


4 posted on 10/04/2022 7:47:08 AM PDT by RKRider
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Waiting for Illinois to mandate armored car seats for kids.


5 posted on 10/04/2022 7:49:04 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Were they black. If so, this is confusing to me. Do these lives matter or are these black lives that don’t matter. Asking for a friend.


6 posted on 10/04/2022 7:49:21 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I always put my kids in the front seat.


7 posted on 10/04/2022 7:50:50 AM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 41 degrees)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dem run cities only experience an ‘uptick’ in violence. Murders can rise 50% or 100% and the MSM reports it as just an ‘uptick’.


8 posted on 10/04/2022 7:52:12 AM PDT by Roadrunner383 (;)
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To: BobL

Be sure to disable the air bag on the pass side.


9 posted on 10/04/2022 7:54:05 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Have they considered making back seats illegal?


10 posted on 10/04/2022 7:54:26 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

All cars sold in Chicago must be up-armored. For the children.


11 posted on 10/04/2022 7:59:25 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And not one pesky assault rifle was involved.


12 posted on 10/04/2022 7:59:40 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But they love their new slogan, “Blacks Lives Matter.” It’s just that they’re too stupid to figure out what it means.


13 posted on 10/04/2022 8:31:30 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism/communism but you need guns to shoot your way out.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Time for some back seat body armor .


14 posted on 10/04/2022 9:02:33 AM PDT by 9422WMR (45 1. Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Exactly how many of the shooters have been identified and arrested.


15 posted on 10/04/2022 9:05:31 AM PDT by dearolddad
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