It is a city in the shadow of gun violence: a city where 345 people have been murdered so far this year – the majority of them, killed by guns.
The figures are quite simply terrifying – earlier this month there were 40 shootings in just seven hours. Chicago’s fractured communities feel abandoned – with little faith in the police – nor in their political leaders. While police say co-operation is hard to come by.
Paraic O’Brien is in Chicago where he’s been meeting those at the frontline of the violence.
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America has failed these neighborhoods.
Where all this guns come from???
The purge & no one see's it.
They don’t have buses that run out of Chicago? 🤔 leave dh
Aslong as its black and brown deaths in low income hoods.& just as long as its kept in those hood and not spill into the suburbs then its okay. But dnt let a whiteboy get robbed cuz then ww3 will start…i swear i HATE white people with a passion not all but most. I'm a Pround hispanic.
And in the same breath these idiots blame white people for their problems. SMH
Black lives matter hey though, right?
Selling bricks for a buck..😀
I agree just mind your own business and don't snitch simple
Anytime you can't stand up for children and old people. It's a damn shame if you don't go to the police then get down for your crown and protect the future and the wisdom
This is about poverty at its roots. If you benefit and profit from this country more than the average person, it’s likely you are doing it at the expense of others.
This is strictly a cultural thing, It's not about poverty of education. I was raised poor, but we had a high school and a local grocery store where I worked, moved away went to college. Some just don't want a good life it seems.
I couldn't be a cop. I would be emptying magazines into people mouthing off.
was handguns they all together why.
Sorry to ask this but who’s fault do you think it is that the situation is like this? Would we say it is the police? social inequality? racism? Or the lack of good family values and strong positive role models?
Bottom line gang culture and lack of parental guidance is definitely creating an environment where drugs and violence is the norm. All thanks to clueless democratic rule.
I know it sounds bogus but those other guys were right…only because he’s speaking on things he knows nothing about..what they didn’t tell you is that lady’s grandson caught a body or 2 and people want REVENGE,,, messed up but that’s how it goes in the hood “REVENGE”
There is no gun crime . There is no gun violence.
There are only criminals. who use guns.
The problem is controlling the criminals — not the guns.
A LOTTA IGNORANT VIOLENT BLACKS…….& IT AIN'T GONNA ANY BETTER…….THE DUMMYS WON'T COOPERATE WITH POLICE……THE BLACK RACE IS SELF DESTRUCTIVE !!! THEY ARE THE DUMBEST RACE ON THE PLANET !!!
All races are exactly identical in personality, intelligence, and all other mental traits, as evolution cannot work on the brain, only from the neck down. This is all due to relentless white racism, all the time, everywhere—it explains everything.
"Violence plagues Chicago." "We're losing black and brows bodies to gun violence." Terrible thing. This Violence creature is really evil, someone should do something, go where the creature sleeps and kill it, or at least imprison it. Poor black people, chosen as targets by this evil being, Violence — why must they suffer so much? White racism, of course.
The United States military has an Intelligence Quotient cut-off point of 83. It is illegal to recruit anyone into the military with an IQ below that, because they simply aren't capable of useful work, and pose a hazard to themselves and everyone around them where dangerous hardware and weapons are concerned. Everyone who joins the military is tested so they know what a prospective recruit's aptitudes are.
The mean, or average IQ of African Americans is 85, so at least half of them are less intelligent than that.
Combine that with low impulse control, testosterone-fueled aggression and low empathy, and you have a young man ready-made for acts of thoughtless, stupid violence. If that's not enough, absolve him of all responsibility with a constant stream of victim-hood propaganda coming out of the Academy and Media to give him cover for his stupid violence.
Europeans have always sneered at the US problem with gun violence, supposing that it is a product of our Cowboy mentality and lack of culture. Now that they have their own oversupply of violent black minorities, perhaps they understand a little bit about how protracted the problem really is.
The description says they were all killed by guns. What a joke they mean killed by other people using guns illegally and ghetto violence
Blame Trump
Terrorists. Get the Marine Corp out of Afghanistan and in Chicago
2016 there were 4367 shootings in Chicago all by Negroes. What does that tell you?
Time for the people of Chicago to stop voting for Liberals. Liberals has lost control of Chicago.
Wait a minute why doesn't chigago ban gun shops
How depressing this footage is.
Why isn't there a Marshall law in the streets of Chicago?
The failure of the black parents
wheres black lives matter,they should start at the base,tell the brothers to put there guns Down first thing, then you can fight the police, till then you cant be taken seriously
obama helped chicago allot , i mean iran!
#GODBLESS GOTTA DO BETTER ……SO SAD. 💧💧💧💧
Chicago is so bad wow how can you hurt a old lady
This problem could be solved in four weeks. Apprehend the murderers and execute them publicly within a week. Don't have the stomach for that? That's why you have the problem.
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Gotta love Democrats — they know how to get all their votes from blacks for nothing. The welfare system and marrying the govt for everything result exactly in this predicament. Democrats come every election and parade Jay Z and Beyonce do a little rap and twirk and they got you again. They only roll out Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson when a thug gets shot by a white cop. But blacks shooting blacks…barely get on the news.
Pres. Johnson said—-‘ I will have these nigras voting Democrat for the next 200 years.’…when them Democrats rolled out the War on Poverty. Well..another hundred years maybe blacks will figure this out.
Progressive city..
"don't be snitching". that's why the kills keep happening.
Pray that these people find God, and allow Jesus into their hearts.
This is what the natural uninhibited behavior of the African male looks like. I love my all white town more and more every day.
Just a regular Tuesday in Chicago. This is sad. What a shame
People need to learn what snitchin really means
Introduce Death sentence period..if you kill someone then your life should be taken away cz these guys are killing innocent people with stray bullets
Chicago needs Batman for real.
It happens in the black neighborhoods….what does that tell you? It's the guns, or is it this demographic!
MAKES NO SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!