Posted on 07/18/2020 5:28:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Washington (AFP) -- A five-month old baby boy struck in the head by a bullet in a drive-by shooting in Chicago Thursday became the youngest victim yet of gun violence battering US cities already hobbled by the coronavirus pandemic.
Shootings have become breathtakingly normal this summer across the United States. Hundreds have been killed including dozens of children, and thousands wounded.
The shootings have been stoked by the social and economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic, pullbacks by police under attack for abuse of African Americans, the hot summer's pull on people to the streets, and by social media-fuelled gang vendettas.
The epidemic is overwhelming many other cities -- Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Baltimore among the worst -- and the pace only accelerated this month.
The perpetrators and victims are predominantly young African American men, often members of small cliques or mini-gangs with personal grudges and drug turf rivalries.
Chicago has hundreds of such groups, sometimes just five or ten members each, making it near impossible to monitor threats and foster truces, police say.
Taunts and provocations on Snapchat drive many of the shootings. The cliques make their own hip hop videos with threats against others that spiral into lethal attacks, Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks said.
"It's not even drug associated, it's personal vendettas," said Brooks, who works with Chicago communities to ease tensions.
"Social media has a lot to do with it. ... They are so young, they haven't even learned conflict resolution," he said.
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The new normal.
Face graffiti. Red flag on the field.
And gee, people not obeying Democrat gun laws in places like California, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Who would have thought?
Those 2 pictures are what I expect to see walking around with little “US Census Bureau” labels in the next few weeks. No private sector employer would hire them, unless a carnival is short a ride operator.
Shootings have become breathtakingly normal this summer in demonicRAT controlled cities across the United States.
There. Fixed it.
Gangs=lack of fathers.
so it has nothing to do with the fact that the media/dem complex has been demonizing the police and dem mayors and governors have been ordering the police to ‘stand-down” instead of doing the job they get paid to do?
both were about to turn their lives around and become astronauts ~!
If those in the current ‘pop culture’ weren’t glorifying gang culture, extensive body ink (including face ink), and general rebellion against anything considered ‘normal America’, there would be much less of this. When you don’t have a father present to teach values, and then you fill that void with ‘role models’ from a depraved ‘pop culture’, this is what you get.
A new twist on the old “Jobs For Jihadis” idea put forth by Marie Harf-wit for Barack Obama.
Now rephrased by leftists in a sad attempt to pin blame on president Trump by claiming bored city ‘Yoots’ are killing people
as an outlet for their pent up energy and frustration resulting from the coronavirus lockdown.
Never use a Tattoo Artist who is eating a Snickers Bar.
Where is the evidence, other than speculative, that COVID-19 has anything to do with gang bangers shooting each other?
The perpetrators and victims are predominantly young African American men, often members of small cliques or mini-gangs with personal grudges and drug turf rivalries.
How in the name of sacred journalism does this sentence jibe with the previous COVID-19 sentence? Answer - it doesn't.
This is tribal warfare and vendettas in full display, with law enforcement told to back off, jails being emptied, and bail being a thing of the past.
Finally, this street warfare is at the feet of Democrats and liberal city policies.
“Never use a Tattoo Artist who is eating a Snickers Bar.”
And you’ll never have any regerts.
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