One shooting became national news, the other was completely (well, almost completely) ignored. Chicago shooting: 6-year-old girl, 33-year-old man shot inside Woodlawn home - CBS Chicago
You have probably heard of the six-year-old shot in North Carolina while retrieving a soccer ball from a neighbor's yard. The girl was white, and it happened in Suburbia. It became a media sensation. Twitter blew up, in part, because of this shooting.
The other six-year-old was shot in the Woodlawn neighborhood, on the south side of Chicago. I can't prove that it was ignored, but the only news stories I saw about the shooting were from local Chicago media outlets. Well, and HeyJackass! who noted the shooting in the weekend stats.
The Chicago shooting: As I said, it was only covered by Chicago local news outlets.
Just after 5 p.m., the two were inside the home in the 6600 block of South Drexel Avenue with who police describe as two "known offenders." At least one had a gun and started shooting.
The girl was sturck and taken to Comer Children's Hospital in Chicago, the man was taken to The University of Chicago Medical Center, a trauma center not far from Woodlawn in Hyde Park.
There was also another shooting of a child over the weekend in Chicago. It also seems to have been ignored. That victim was "about 3." That shooting was in Calumet Heights, another Chicago Neighborhood that is on the south side of the city.
No information is given on race, and I couldn't find any photos of the victims in the few news stories I saw. According to the WiKi - always a questionable source - the population of Woodlawn was 82.3% black as of 2008, and Calumet Heights was 93.47% black in 2015. Odds are that the victims of these crimes were black.
Now despite the fact that cops apparently know who did the shooting in the case of the 6-year-old from Chicago, no one is in custody.
So why is one 6-year-old being shot national news, and another being shot ignored. Is the media really that racist, to care about a white death shooting more than a black death shooting? Is it that one story supports a narrative, and the other only highlights the breakdown of civilization?
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