Black People : Chicago Rings in First Homicide of 2016 - Count Continues into 2017 - Continues into 2018, 2019, 2020

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The Chicago Police, Race, and the Legacy of Bettie Jones


... If 2016 turns out to be a moment of lasting change in the tortured story of race and police in Chicago, historians may want to look past the report to moments that are more difficult to quantify. I am reminded of the funeral of Bettie Jones. Until the day she died, Jones was not famous and, outside of Chicago, the memory of her name and the circumstances of her death have faded. But at the New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church on the morning of January 6th, everything that would make headlines in the task-force report was in public view ...



http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-chicago-police-race-and-the-legacy-of-bettie-jones

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Latonya Jones, the daughter of Bettie Jones, and her father mourn her mother’s killing by police in Chicago.CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY TANNEN MAURY / EPA


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