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Originally posted by mmm3587
I guess that you're saying that they're implying that the two black men were involved, but the third guy was just an innocent bystander, so it's still safe for white people in Chicago, the blacks mostly just shoot each other? If so, it's kind of weird that they didn't call him a victim. Or, are you implying that they didn't say that he was white or whatever race he is, becuase that would scare white people?
Maybe, but I don't really get that. Different newspapers and organizations (like the CPD) often have policies about identifiying people or noting certain characteristics about them (race, age, gender) based on whether they are victims or offenders and whether the information is available for everyone. In this case, I read that the other guy shot was from Michigan, wasn't involved, wasn't seriously injured and was treated and released, so maybe they just didn't have that information.
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I'm not calling into question the papers in any way. The CPD rarely issues statements about the race of offenders unless they are still wanted (looking for a M1, 40 yoa..), and I can't recall another instance where they specified the race of a victim.
The message as I read it, was "don't you white people worry, its just a black thing, even if it did happen at Jackson and Wabash in the neighborhood where hundreds of thousands of you work".
OTOH, I didn't read it as saying that the two black victims were anything other than victims. Only as saying that the two black victims were black, and not white, and that this is something that the CPD would like you, the public, to know.
