At least 77 people shot in weekend violence in Chicago, including 17 in two mass shootings

[StarfishSaver]

18. You're right

Because people killing each other isn't news. And when they do, they usually are immediately arrested, charged, tried and convicted. In other words, the system more often than not works to punish the perpetrators and mete out some measure of justice for the victims.

But when agents of that same system, agents with the guns and the badges, kill innocent people - and disproportionately target people of certain races while not similarly targeting people of one particular race - and the system and society circle the wagons to protect them from punishment and deny the victims any measure of justice, it is necessary for people who care about fairness and justice to raise our voices loud and strong and, when necessary, take to the streets to draw attention to the wrong so that the system that works so well when it comes to charging and incarcerating particular people when THEY commit crimes can maybe find its way to at least making an effort at holding those agents accountable.

I assume that's what you were talking about ... But since there's not much to say after reading this report other than "That's a damned shame. We need to continue finding out why this is happening and communities and work on solutions for preventing it," I'm not sure why you felt the need to tacitly suggest that there is something wrong with people reacting to person-on-person crime differently than they react to state-sponsored and societally-protected extra-judicial killings of American citizens.

Unless you were hoping for a different kind of response - the kind that right wingers like to give as a tactic to divert attention from the situation I explained above - I'm not sure why you would think it odd that certain other types of details would result in a different response since those details would certainly MERIT a different response.