By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) Weekend violence in Chicago was down this past weekend compared to the bloodbath the weekend before, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel argues it not just because 600 addition cops were working the hot spots.
Rahm’s been taking heat lately for supposedly “blaming the victim” when he says people who know who the shooters are have a moral responsibility to tell police.
Now, the mayor’s using the black community coming together for Saturday’s Bud Billiken Parade to try to prove his point, “What I saw this weekend was a city embracing its children, embracing the start of the school year, coming together as a neighborhood, working with law enforcement, working with neighbors. When you have the power of neighborhoods, the power of community and the power of a set of values to bring up our children, you’ll see a lot more safety because you have a future.”
Also interesting about the Bud Billiken Parade was that Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner stayed away this year after getting booed there last year. He’s up for re-election.
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