Chicago Logs Deadliest Day in Modern History

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A cyclist rides past the closed Dearborn Street Bridge on May 31, 2020, after a night of protests and vandalism in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

by Arden Dier

Chicago has logged its deadliest day in modern history, with 18 murders on May 31. A report from the Chicago Sun-Times begins:

“A hardworking father killed just before 1 am. A West Side high school student murdered two hours later. A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 pm “

Also killed was Keishanay Bolden, an 18-year-old student at Western Illinois University who was studying law enforcement and justice in the hope of becoming a correctional officer, per Fox News.

Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the University of Chicago Crime Lab, tells the Sun-Times

“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all. It was a brutal weekend, with 25 people killed from 7 pm on May 29 to 11 pm on May 31. Another 85 people were injured by gunfire at that time.”

It was a brutal weekend, with 25 people killed from 7 pm on May 29 to 11 pm on May 31. Another 85 people were injured by gunfire at that time.

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Bill Formby
3 years ago

If anyone reads this and took anything, as in looting (as in stealing things that belongs to others) I challenge you to come onto this site and justify how that in any way helps Mr. Floyd rest in peace, or in any way helps America solve its racial divide.

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