Told of the sentence, Jaslyn’s father said, “I pray that he learns from it. I pray that he understands the severity of what happened and what this situation has done to our family.”
The way people in politics, whether it be media pundits or politicians, discuss race in America is like listening to bad parents brag about their ineffective style at a dinner party.
In his own words, as told to WBEZ’s Patrick Smith for the podcast ‘Motive,’ Jontae Adams tells of struggling with the guilt of putting his 7-year-old daughter Jaslyn Adams at risk and how her death changed his life.
One year after 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams was shot and killed while sitting inside a car in a McDonald’s drive thru on Chicago’s West Side, her father is.
Nearly two years into the pandemic, coronavirus cases are surging again and the city has announced another round of mitigations. You can’t blame the mayor for thinking twice about running again after Chicago’s tumultuous 2021.