President Donald Trump pointed out the lack of media attention given to the weekend’s violence in Chicago in a Tuesday morning tweet.
Trump re-tweeted a tweet from Jack Posobiec, a Trump supporter and conspiracy theorist, that asked why the national media gave more attention to the Charlottesville, Va. riots than the thirty people shot in Chicago.
“Meanwhile: 39 shootings in Chicago this weekend, 9 deaths,” the Posobiec tweet Trump retweeted said. “No national media outrage. Why is that?”
More than thirty people were shot this weekend in Chicago and nine people lost their lives to the gun violence plaguing the city. There were a couple of triple and double homicides over the weekend as well.
Chicago has been combating its rise in homicides — 74 people died this July, while sixty five people died in July of 2016. Overall shootings have gone down though in 2017 as the city marked 410 shootings this July, down from the approximately 441 shootings in July 2016.
Most of the media attention was caught up with the white supremacist rally Friday and Saturday. The rally turned into a riot when counter protesters and white supremacists clashed. One white supremacist plowed into a crowd of people with his car, injuring many and killing one woman, Heather Heyer.
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