George Bady, founder of Stop The Violence, said kids are scared: “They are very scared; they are scared to come outside, they are scared to sit in their front rooms now, some scared to go outside because they might not make it back home.”

The tragically incompetent mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” last weekend to deflect attention from the horror show unfolding in her city by blaming interlopers for its spiking murder rate: “We are being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no gun control, no background checks, no ban on assault weapons—that is hurting cities like Chicago.”

Although these accusations have been leveled by Chicago politicians for decades now, they are a myth.

“Lost on the Frontline,” a collaboration between KHN and The Guardian, so far has identified 878 such workers who likely died of COVID-19 after helping patients during the pandemic.

Activists with Tikkun Chai Inter-National held a press conference outside the FOP Lodge 7, calling for the resignation of President John Catanazara over recent comments at a “defund the police” rally.

“Chicago’s mayor can’t maintain order in her increasingly violent city. So she plays the race card.”

The little boy is among several young children who have been shot throughout the city in recent weeks of spiking gun violence.