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.
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Don’t black people have a right to kill themselves? Who cares?
Wrong emphasis in the headline. Actual number of victims buried. No mention of the perpetrators or their motives. The media sucks.
Great job fighting crime, Beetlejuice.
Waiting for Illinois to mandate armored car seats for kids.
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.
I always put my kids in the front seat.
Dem run cities only experience an ‘uptick’ in violence. Murders can rise 50% or 100% and the MSM reports it as just an ‘uptick’.
Be sure to disable the air bag on the pass side.
Have they considered making back seats illegal?
All cars sold in Chicago must be up-armored. For the children.
And not one pesky assault rifle was involved.
But they love their new slogan, “Blacks Lives Matter.” It’s just that they’re too stupid to figure out what it means.
Time for some back seat body armor .
Exactly how many of the shooters have been identified and arrested.
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