WASHINGTON POST
Monday was Chicago’s worst day in more than a decade for homicides, with 9 people fatally shot
by Derek Hawkins
August 10, 2016

Michael Lucas, 61, was sitting on his front stoop in Chicago’s Burnside neighborhood, watching his 3-year-old grandnephew play in the afternoon sun, when without warning two men ran toward the house and opened fire on him. One shot struck Lucas. As the men advanced up the sidewalk, they pushed Lucas’s grandnephew out of the way and shot Lucas three more times, family members said. The attackers fled in a red SUV, and Lucas died on the stoop from gunshot wounds to the neck and head. Lucas was one of 19 people shot on Monday — nine of them fatally —  in what the Chicago Tribune has called the city’s deadliest day in more than a decade. READ MORE

Homicide (the vast majority of it, black-on-black) has become such a daily event in Chicago that the Sun Times has set up a special web page to track this horrific development. #BlackLivesMatter gives this crisis virtually no attention, focusing solely on (allegedly) systemic police bias and violence directed towards minorities.