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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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Soros DA + Progressive Mayor = Body Bags
To: 2banana; Albion Wilde; Antoninus; big truck; brityank; bt-99; ConorMacNessa; cowboyusa; ...
*** Philly Metro Ping ***
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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)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
12/31/2020 11:02:05 AM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
(THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
To: Kid Shelleen
Another way to let nature depopulate.
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/
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posted on
12/31/2020 11:04:10 AM PST
by
redfreedom
(Member of Agent Orange Health Club Since 1969)
To: Kid Shelleen
They’re Number 1!! They’re Number 1!!
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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.)
To: Kid Shelleen
shooting them is a way of making SURE they vote D!
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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))
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
12/31/2020 11:04:57 AM PST
by
TexasM1A
To: dp0622
Damn, I had my money on Chicago
To: Kid Shelleen
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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!)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
12/31/2020 11:06:38 AM PST
by
KSCITYBOY
(The media is corrupt)
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?
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posted on
12/31/2020 11:06:49 AM PST
by
eyeamok
To: Kid Shelleen
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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.)
To: faithhopecharity
shooting them is a way of making SURE they vote D, several times.
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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!)
To: Kid Shelleen
More than 2,000 people were shot in the city this yearMasks and social distancing not working?
Regards,
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posted on
12/31/2020 11:08:29 AM PST
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: Kid Shelleen
And the party of lies and the Klan still claims that Trump kills people.
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.
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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.)
To: Kid Shelleen
not nearly enough
at least 100 k leftists, black and white would be a good start
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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)
To: Kid Shelleen
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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)
To: redfreedom
Meanwhile, my poor, underachieving guns sit in the Gun Cabinet, doing nothing and starved for ammo.
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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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