While most Americans were hanging out with family and friends celebrating Memorial Day this weekend, people in Chicago were doing their best reenactment of a war zone:
This morning's @chicagotribune, story by @PeterNickeas @GraceWong630 @JoeMahr1 pic.twitter.com/BPRQjOVqeX
— Alison Bowen (@byalisonbowen) May 31, 2016
That headline was from an early edition … the number wounded now stands at 69:
https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/737635466749562881
With 6 killed:
Memorial Day Weekend: 69 shot, 6 fatally, in 52 incidents. #chicago pic.twitter.com/qHCtcTkdQl
— Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas) May 31, 2016
It’s been a bloody year in Chicago, that’s for sure:
There have been more than 1,400 shootings and nearly 300 homicides in Chicago in 2016 already: https://t.co/kziNczx6Nu
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 30, 2016
And Milo Yiannopoulos — who just last week had his speech at DePaul University disrupted by Black Lives Matter protesters — questioned why he’s the target and not the thugs:
https://twitter.com/Nero/status/737043484624838656
https://twitter.com/Nero/status/737125695483039745
Get the popcorn.
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