Posted on 07/23/2016 9:33:03 AM PDT by Lorianne
CHICAGO (AP) -- The Chicago mother thought she knew when it was safe to take her children outside, that her ability to size up and avoid people trouble seemed to follow would protect them.
Then a bullet fired from a gun that D'Antignay Brashear never saw pierced the cheek of her 4-year-old son, Kavan Collins. It fractured the boy's jaw and shattered some teeth before it went out his other cheek, all while he held his mother's hand.
- Six-year-old Jaylene Bermeo was drawing with sidewalk chalk on the evening of June 6 in the Logan Square neighborhood on the city's northwest side when she was shot in the back, the bullet puncturing her lung and lodging near her heart. Police say a 17-year-old boy accidentally shot the girl when he opened fire on rival gang members as he drove down the block.
- Three-year-old Devon Quinn was with his dad on Father's Day in a car in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the South Side when someone pulled up and fired at least 10 shots at the vehicle. Prosecutors say the gunman was a gang member who opened fire in a rival gang's territory to pay tribute to a dead member of his own gang. At a court hearing, prosecutors said the boy was left paralyzed from the chest down and that he will never be able to move his limbs or even breathe on his own.
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guns are bad
That'll work.
Whitey’s fault. Republican’s fault. Conservative’s fault. Everybody else’s fault. BLM hypocrisy does not work in Chicago.
BLM:DNC::IRA:Sinn Fein
That's a tortured formulation.
"gunfire"
"often connected to"
"gangs hitting Chicago children"
How about not emphasizing the gunfire? Howabout "Chicago children often victims of gang violence"?
Because the gangs seem to be the problem, the gunfire is somewhat incidental.
Police say a 17-year-old boy accidentally shot the girl when he opened fire on rival gang members as he drove down the block.
Hillary logic says it’s ok then. It was an accident.
Rahm Emanuel is SO close to turning this all around. We just need to reelect him so that he’ll finish the job. Oh...and he’ll need just a few $Billon more to complete the task...
If gun control laws worked, Chicago would be the safest city in America.
Does Chicongo seem safe to you?
Jesse Jackson’s fault.
A Democrat shot the gun, ban the Democrat party not the guns.
Little kids being gunned down in the streets?
Doesn’t sound safe to me.
Chicago isn't safe for children, period.
Hillary logic says it happened a long time ago, what’s the difference?
These “reformed felons” are the type McAuliffe in VA wants to give voting rights back to.
“I don’t know how to explain it to him,” she said...
Yes, that’s a difficult thing to explain to a child. Your black life doesn’t matter, but if a cop shot the thug who shot you, the thug would become martyr of the week.
It really can’t be explained with any logic or coherence.
This author just writes in a very convoluted manner.
I had to read this 3 times to figure it out “..her ability to size up and avoid people trouble seemed to follow...”
You’re ClearCase_guy, Don Babwin is TorturedGrammer_guy.
Obama will ignore this (for all the obvious reasons) and the witch Hillary won't invite the thug's parents to the convention.This innocent child was destroyed and he has no political 'value' to the white liberal elites who run the democrat party.
His suffering is an embarrassment to Hillary and Obama. Now and forever.
Black on black crime works AGAINST the white liberal elite Establishment ... they will hide it.
The people who care about this child - and thousands like him - are the Chicago Police...
Sins of the fathers
BL's don't matter when Black gangs kill innocent blacks and black children!
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