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More Than 2,000 People Shot In Philadelphia In 2020 As City Approaches Record Number Of Homicides
CBS News Philadelphia ^ | 12/31/2020 | Alecia Reid

Posted on 12/31/2020 11:01:08 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

The murder rate was extremely high in Philadelphia in 2020. The number of homicides is on track to break a grim record by New Year’s Eve.

There’s been a 40% increase in homicides from last year alone, and now the city is close to officially breaking the record of 500 homicides set back in 1990.

Illegal guns continue to wreak havoc on the streets of Philadelphia.

“It’s never right to bury your children but this is the reality for too many families,” said Michelle Kerr Spry with Mothers in Charge.

More than 2,000 people were shot in the city this year — an alarming number of them were women and children. The majority, however, were young black men and boy

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1 posted on 12/31/2020 11:01:08 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
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To: 2banana; Albion Wilde; Antoninus; big truck; brityank; bt-99; ConorMacNessa; cowboyusa; ...

*** Philly Metro Ping ***


2 posted on 12/31/2020 11:01:37 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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DO NOT CARE.

Next topic.


3 posted on 12/31/2020 11:02:05 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Another way to let nature depopulate.


4 posted on 12/31/2020 11:04:09 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Kid Shelleen

“Illegal guns continue to wreak havoc on the streets of Philadelphia.”

That’s all the more reason for strict gun control. /s/


5 posted on 12/31/2020 11:04:10 AM PST by redfreedom (Member of Agent Orange Health Club Since 1969)
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To: Kid Shelleen

They’re Number 1!! They’re Number 1!!


6 posted on 12/31/2020 11:04:24 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

shooting them is a way of making SURE they vote D!


7 posted on 12/31/2020 11:04:51 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Kid Shelleen

And?


8 posted on 12/31/2020 11:04:57 AM PST by TexasM1A
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Damn, I had my money on Chicago


9 posted on 12/31/2020 11:05:45 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Kid Shelleen

BLMers shooting BLMers?


10 posted on 12/31/2020 11:06:32 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If voting could change anything, they would not let us do it...!!! Posted by glasseye, 12/19/2020!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

btt


11 posted on 12/31/2020 11:06:38 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Evolution in Action, keep up the good work, I just wish you would step up your game and catch Chicago with their over 4000 Murders for the year.

ps It isn’t the GUNS causing this, got a Mirror?


12 posted on 12/31/2020 11:06:49 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Kid Shelleen

Democrat Party rule.


13 posted on 12/31/2020 11:06:52 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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shooting them is a way of making SURE they vote D, several times.


14 posted on 12/31/2020 11:07:21 AM PST by Grampa Dave (If voting could change anything, they would not let us do it...!!! Posted by glasseye, 12/19/2020!)
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More than 2,000 people were shot in the city this year

Masks and social distancing not working?

Regards,

15 posted on 12/31/2020 11:08:29 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

And the party of lies and the Klan still claims that Trump kills people.


16 posted on 12/31/2020 11:08:46 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Hot Tabasco

LOL

It’s like a dead pool.

Honest, it’s sad. These kids never had a chance with no dad and mom usually being worthless.

And everyone is afraid to tell them the truth.


17 posted on 12/31/2020 11:08:51 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

not nearly enough

at least 100 k leftists, black and white would be a good start


18 posted on 12/31/2020 11:09:21 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) America needs oprichnina against the progressive elite oppressors)
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19 posted on 12/31/2020 11:10:20 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: redfreedom

Meanwhile, my poor, underachieving guns sit in the Gun Cabinet, doing nothing and starved for ammo.


20 posted on 12/31/2020 11:10:44 AM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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