By Tom Schuba, Sam Charles, and Matthew Hendrickson Jun 8, 2020, 6:21am CDT
… While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.
From 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 5 a.m. Monday, June 1, 25 people were killed in the city, with another 85 wounded by gunfire, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
In a city with an international reputation for crime where 900 murders per year were common in the early 1990s it was the most violent weekend in Chicago’s modern history, stretching police resources that were already thin because of protests and looting.
Ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and police superintendent David Brown voiced aspirations for the upcoming summer to be the.
ACCORDING TO INITIAL reports from the Louisiana State Police, Ronald Greene died in a car crash. This was in May 2019, one year before the murder of George Floyd. Mr Greene’s family was suspicious, so they pressed the police to release footage from the cameras worn by six of the officers on the scene. Not all of the devices were switched on, and it took a 17-month fight before they could watch the footage (the public did not see it until the Associated Press leaked it, seven months after that). The footage showed the troopers repeatedly stunning Mr Greene with a taser, punching him, and leaving him moaning face-down on the road for nine minutes; he died on the way to hospital. Body-worn cameras were present. Transparency was not.