Democrats plan increased policing and incarceration in response to lethal violence in Chicago
In what is on track to be a record year of deadly violence in Chicago, America’s third largest city, 104 people were shot over the July 4 Independence Day holiday weekend, 19 fatally, according to local media.
The days leading up to the holiday weekend saw horrific violence, including a one-month-old infant shot in the head while sitting in her car seat, a nine-year-old girl shot in the head while sitting in a car and an eight-year-old girl shot in the arm while in her home.
On July 1, 20-year-old Max Solomon Lewis, a University of Chicago undergraduate studying economics and computer science, was shot in the neck while sitting in an elevated car on the West Side. He died three days later.