During the last weekend of May 2020, 85 people were shot in Chicago – 24 of them were killed. According to the Chicago Tribune, “The majority of the victims of homicide in Chicago are young, black men.” A week earlier, on May 25, about 400 miles to the northwest, as the whole world by now knows, a white police officer in Minneapolis put his knee on the neck of an unarmed black man and kept it there for nearly nine minutes. George Floyd died and Americans, from New York to California took to the streets to protest his gruesome death.
Who Marches for the Black Men Killed in Chicago?
Who Marches for the Black Men Killed in…
Who Marches for the Black Men Killed in Chicago?
During the last weekend of May 2020, 85 people were shot in Chicago – 24 of them were killed. According to the Chicago Tribune, “The majority of the victims of homicide in Chicago are young, black men.” A week earlier, on May 25, about 400 miles to the northwest, as the whole world by now knows, a white police officer in Minneapolis put his knee on the neck of an unarmed black man and kept it there for nearly nine minutes. George Floyd died and Americans, from New York to California took to the streets to protest his gruesome death.