A seven-year-old girl was shot and killed this weekend while waiting in line at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Chicago. The child’s father was also shot, but survived the attack.
The suspected motives behind the attack remain unreleased by police officers, but the car was found covered in bullets, suggesting a target.
After the shooting, there were at least 30 cases outside the vehicle, a CBS Chicago report said, noting that the stained glass windows on the sides of the vehicle were also shot.
Young Jaslyn Adams was hit several times in the upper body. She was rushed to a local hospital by a local police officer, but succumbed to her injuries. Her father, Jontae Adams, 29, was also shot, although she survived.
There were no marches or protests for the life of Jaslyn, a seven-year-old black man, by Black Lives Matter activists. And when Chicago Democrat Mayor Lori Lightfoot commented on the horrific shooting, she referred to so-called “gun violence,” leaving the child’s race out.
“I am crazy and upset that a 7-year-old boy was killed this afternoon in Chicago’s West Side,” Lightfoot reported Sunday. “This inconceivable act of violence has no place here. The epidemic of armed violence that is reducing the lives of our children cannot continue. ”
I’m scared and angry that a 7-year-old was killed this afternoon in Chicago’s West Side. This inconceivable act of violence has no place here. The epidemic of armed violence that is reducing the lives of our children cannot continue.
– Mayor Lori Lightfoot (@chicagosmayor) April 19, 2021
A major critique of the left-wing Black Lives Matter movement is the group’s refusal to focus on all innocent black lives, instead choosing seemingly controversial and timely political cases that help advance, for example, their goal of spreading nationally. the police. The black-and-white crime is completely ignored by the movement because it does not fit their agenda.
Earlier this month, a resident of Rochester, New York, called on BLM activists to ignore crimes in the city when they do not involve police. “If the police killed us at the rate of killing ourselves, I suspect this city would be on fire,” said Rudy Rivera, CEO of the Father Laurence Tracy Advocacy Center in Rochester, on North Clinton Avenue.
Rivera noted the protests he saw this summer in response to the death of a black man named Daniel Prude following a police interaction. Activists who sparked the protests – and many nights of destructive and subsequent violent riots in the city – are nowhere to be found as crime continues to rise in Rochester.
“When we kill ourselves, I ask myself, where are the protests covering this street?” Rivera asked the activists. “Where are the people in your own community who know what’s going on here?” And this is the most tragic part of the whole story, everyone knows what is happening here and yet it persists. ”
“Where are the voices” of activists holding press conferences almost every day about incidents involving officers, Rivera asked.
Unfortunately, Rivera’s comments are valid throughout the nation.
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