Chicago mayor calls out Ivanka Trump's 'nonsense tweets' about her city by writerknowles
President Trump’s eldest daughter attempted on Tuesday to bring gun violence in Chicago into a broader social media conversation on the mass shootings last weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that killed at least 31 people.
As we grieve over the evil mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, let us not overlook that Chicago experienced its deadliest weekend of the year.With 7 dead and 52 wounded near a playground in the Windy City- and little national outrage or media coverage- we mustn’t become numb to the violence faced by inner city communities every day.Lightfoot, who was inaugurated in May as Chicago’s first female African-American mayor, called out the factual inaccuracies of the presidential advisor’s tweets.
In fact, while 7 of the 55 people shot in the city over the weekend died, those numbers reflected the total number of gun deaths and injuries across the entire city last weekend, not a single episode. Overall, while gun violence continues to plague Chicago, shootings and homicides have decreased in 2019, the Chicago Tribune reported. Still, 1,600 people in Chicago have been shot this year and police have reported 300 homicides.
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