US answer to internal violence move innocent people

[Anthea]

Chicago holiday weekend shootings claim 101 victims

At least 101 people were shot in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, according to a city newspaper.

Nearly half of the shootings during the four-day holiday happened over 12 hours, reports the Chicago Tribune.

The youngest victim was a 13-year-old boy and the oldest a 60-year-old man.

US President Donald Trump recently said he was sending in federal agents to help local police contain the Illinois city's gang wars.

Five ways Trump can help Chicago

About half of the shootings happened between 15:30 on Tuesday and 03:30 on Wednesday, mainly in Chicago's south and west sides.

Not even the deployment of more than 1,000 extra officers by Chicago police department could staunch the violence.

The casualties are significantly higher than 2016, when 66 people were shot in Chicago over the Independence Day weekend, which lasted three days.

It brings the total number of people shot in Chicago so far in 2017 to more than 1,800, reports the Tribune.

But that figure is not as severe as last year when 2,035 people had been shot by this point.

At the weekend, Chicago police said shootings this year had declined 14% compared with the first six months of last year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40514995

US spends BILLIONS of Dollars fighting ISIS

But fails to protect it's own citizens

Black drug gangs continue to TERRORISE many inner city areas

[Benny]

Thank you for the post, Anthea.

Sad to read though, the 4th of July(as I understand it) should be a happy occasion with peaceful celebrations.

/b

[Anthea]

Thank you for the post, Anthea.

Sad to read though, the 4th of July(as I understand it) should be a happy occasion with peaceful celebrations.

/b

Gun crime is really bad in America, especially in certain parts of Chicago

In the black neighbourhoods of Chicago people live with the almost hourly sound of gunfire

Black people have been encouraged to develop a drug culture

Brief History:

Black people in America have always been treated as an underclass

During WW2 the American armed forces that came to the UK to offer their support, were racially segregated

Literally

There were black units and white units

Before coming to the UK they were told that this country was different and that UK units were not segregated

(the UK had many thousands of soldiers and airmen who volunteered to come here from the Caribbean to fight for England)

Much of our black population is descended from those who fought for UK and returned here to live after the war

Sadly, black people discovered they were not as welcome here during peace time, as they were when they were fighting to protect us

NOTE:

Those original black families did eventually manage to settle peacefully in the UK, most buying their own homes

The trouble the UK has now with black gangs is often drug related and is often caused by more recent arrivals from Jamaica

Quick background - marijuana has been grown in Jamaica probably for many centuries and used for medicinal purposes by people with little money to spend on health care

Only in more recent years has marijuana become a cash crop

A large number of Jamaican drug dealers moved to US selling drugs in America, often coming up against American drug gangs who chased them back to Jamaica

(Nowadays it is Mexicans who control most of the drugs in America)

In many instances the American government deported them back to Jamaica

Once back in Jamaica, many of those drug dealers then came to the UK and we had an influx of violent Yardie drug gangs

Back to the US drug problem:

During the Vietnamese war, many young men - both black and white - were conscripted into the army

While in the army these men experienced somewhat less segregated units than their fathers had experienced during WW2

However, when the fighting was over and they returned home to America expecting to be treat like heroes, they were still treated as an underclass and often unable to find jobs

The large black community realised that if they wanted anything done they would have to do it themselves

BLACK POWER WAS BORN

Black book shops, black self-help groups started spring up throughout the American cities

The Black Liberation Front and Black Panther movements became strong and well respected within their communities

They opened numerous community projects - they fed and clothed the homeless and gave children their only hot meal of the day

I do NOT have the full details but someone somewhere within the American government, thought it would be a good idea to push drugs into the black communities to stop their growing strength and increasing organisational abilities

Very quickly many black communities changed from setting up self-help community projects to tearing their communities apart with drug gangs and violence

As we have all seen in recent years, America is far more interested in fighting wars abroad than fighting against the drug gangs that are terrifying most inner city black neighbourhoods

[Anthea]

How do you stop him being shot again?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-4 ... shot-again

This man had been shot on several occasions

As a totally innocent bystander in a shop, he was shot 10 times and luckily survived

The only answer has been to move this young man away from the violent neighbourhood

It would seem that the authorities are unable or unwilling to put an end to black gang violence - yes it is mostly black gang violence and black on black violence is the major cause of death among young black men in America

Studies have shown that 44% of people hospitalised after being shot, stabbed or assaulted, will return with a similar injury
or something fatal

It is time America STOPPED playing war games in other countries and put an end to the horrendous violence taking place in many of it's black inner city neighbourhoods

Better still - as these gang members love violence so much - catch these savages, put them in the army and send them to fight ISIS