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Six Days After Floyd’s Death, Chicago Suffers Most Violent Day Since 1961

John Bickley
Six Days After Floyd’s Death, Chicago Suffers Most Violent Day Since 1961
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As the far-left “Defund The Police” movement gains momentum across the country sparked by the death of George Floyd, a new report details a grim record set in Chicago six days after Floyd’s racially charged death. On Sunday May 31, the Windy City suffered its most violent day in nearly six decades in what was, as one crime lab researcher put it, “beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.”

In a report published Monday, the Chicago Sun-Times provides a heart-wrenching look “inside the most violent day in 60 years in Chicago,” in which 18 people were killed in the city within 24 hours. That devastating number is nearly 50% higher than the previous high: 13 people killed on August 4, 1991.

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