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

[SouthsideIrish]

Blame the mayor or blame the police, blame everybody but the people committing crime.

Sounds logical.

 

[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Not good enough though


Police shootings in Chicago have dropped in past year


CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago police shot people in four incidents in the first three months of 2016, marking a drop in police shootings in the second-largest U.S. city at a time of national outcry over police use of lethal force ...


https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-shootings-chicago-dropped-past-182507225.html

Protesters demonstrate in response to the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago, Illinois
Protesters demonstrate in response to the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago, Illinois, November 25, 2015. REUTERS/Andrew Nelles



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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Video: Teen fatally shot by cop as he was scaling fence, say police source, witness


Karen Winters knows how easily boys are drawn to a life of violence in the Homan Square neighborhood.

But she still can't understand how her 16-year-old nephew ended up shot to death after allegedly threatening a Chicago police officer with a gun during a brief foot chase Monday night ...


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-home-square-police-shooting-20160412-story.html

Tambrasha Hudson, in red, wipes away tears as she cries April 12, 2016, over the shooting death of her 16-year-old son, Pierre Loury, by a Chicago police officer the night before.

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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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16-year-old Pierre Loury


Black Lives Matter shuts down Chicago expressway over police killing of teen

Police said the teen was a gang member. A witness said officers high-fived after the shooting


CHICAGO, April 13 (UPI) -- Traffic on Chicago's Eisenhower Expressway was disrupted Tuesday night when a Black Lives Matter vigil held over the death of a 16-year-old boy turned into a march.

The march was preceded by a Black Lives Matter vigil mourning the death of 16-year-old Pierre Loury, who was shot and killed on Monday by Chicago police ...


http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016...ay-over-police-killing-of-teen/1071460549598/

Several lanes of the expressway were blocked, and two protesters were arrested


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[Clyde C Coger Jr]

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Nearly 75 Percent of People Shot by Chicago Police are Black, Report Says


A task force is recommending that the Chicago Police Department acknowledge its history of racism after a report found that 74 percent of people shot by police between 2008 and 2015 were black ...


https://www.yahoo.com/gma/nearly-75...ice-black-023004909--abc-news-topstories.html

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