“Mass shootings are terrible and my heart goes out them, but what people need to understand is that it happens over and over in our neighborhoods,” says Edwin Taylor, who lives on Chicago’s West side.
CHICAGO — As the nation mourned the deaths of 31 people in mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, some Chicago neighborhoods experienced their most violent weekend of the year with 59 people shot, seven of them killed.
Area residents attend the National Night Out rally against violence in Chicago, Illinois on August 6, 2019.More than four dozen people were hit with bullets in 32 separate shootings over the weekend, according to Chicago police. “We could be at a mall, we could be at a movie and I’m constantly scanning my surroundings, just making sure we’re not in harm's way because we know it happens and we’ve seen it happen a lot,” said George Velazquez, 55, who lives on the West side.
“The narrative is typically that mass shooting victims are innocent people who were just living their lives, while other gun-related deaths are wrongly assumed to be deserved,” she said. “They are seen as gang-related or drug-related violence, but in actuality, when you read more closely, it's typically innocent bystanders that are just going to church or going out shopping.”
While President Donald Trump was mum on Chicago’s violent weekend, his daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump, tweeted about it Tuesday.
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