Sunday, July 25, 2010

Life in "Progress" City - Chicago edition

This is the story of why they won’t stop shooting in Chicago.

It’s told by the wounded, the accused and the officers who were on the street during a weekend in April 2008 when 40 people were shot, seven fatally.

Two years later, the grim reality is this: Nearly all of the shooters from that weekend have escaped charges.

“You don’t go to jail for shooting people,” says Dontae Gamble, who took six bullets that weekend, only to see his alleged shooter walk free.

“That’s why m------------- think they can get back on the streets and kill again. You feel me?”

So far, not one accused shooter has been convicted of pulling the trigger during those deadly 59 hours from April 18-20 of that year, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.

Letting murderers walk free in your city?

Now that's "Progressive"!

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Chicago is one of those cities where simply owning a gun is a higher crime than actual murder with a gun.