7 Killed, 46 Wounded In Weekend Shootings; ‘It’s Destroying The Fiber Of Our Communities’

phildidge wrote:CHICAGO (CBS) — Dozens of people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, including two mass shootings in less than three hours on Sunday. In all, seven people were killed and 46 others were wounded in shootings since Friday evening.

More than a dozen people were wounded, one of them fatally, in a pair of mass shootings in the Lawndale neighborhood early Sunday.

The first shooting happened around 1:20 a.m. near Roosevelt and Francisco in Douglas Park.

Police said a group of people was standing in the park, when someone opened fire from a black Chevrolet Camaro. Seven people were wounded:

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/08/05/weekend-gun-violence-mass-shootings/

Maddog wrote:

phildidge wrote:CHICAGO (CBS) — Dozens of people were shot in Chicago over the weekend, including two mass shootings in less than three hours on Sunday. In all, seven people were killed and 46 others were wounded in shootings since Friday evening.

More than a dozen people were wounded, one of them fatally, in a pair of mass shootings in the Lawndale neighborhood early Sunday.

The first shooting happened around 1:20 a.m. near Roosevelt and Francisco in Douglas Park.

Police said a group of people was standing in the park, when someone opened fire from a black Chevrolet Camaro. Seven people were wounded:

https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/08/05/weekend-gun-violence-mass-shootings/

Black victims and black shooters. No one really cares about that.

phildidge wrote:

Maddog wrote:


Black victims and black shooters. No one really cares about that.

Indeed, so it seems. Its seems to be only local news

Maddog wrote:

phildidge wrote:

Indeed, so it seems. Its seems to be only local news

It's posted on some national sites, but not many.  It's hard to get folks worked up over daily events so the media, politicians and most of the public ignore it.