Tribune's disgusting editorial on gun violence. Did McCarthy's people plant it?
City Council Black Caucus chairman Ald. Roderick Sawyer (6th), at podium, and members on Monday call for the firing of Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy. | Rich Hein/Sun-Times
In August, you [aldermen] had more than 40 people shot on four consecutive weekends. In the deadliest September since 2002, you had 60 people killed. Aldermen, for too long you've avoided wearing a jacket for Chicago's mayhem. -- Tribune editorialThe Tribune's Oct. 1 editorial, Aldermen, own Chicago violence, has the same rotten odor as their previous ones calling for a "Mussolini-type dictator" to run the schools and for a "Katrina-like disaster" to hit Chicago.
This time though, they've actually outdone themselves, shifting blame for the dramatic rise in gun violence that has occurred during the Rahm/McCarthy years, onto black and Latino communities and their aldermen. It reads as a total ass-Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Tribune's disgusting editorial on gun violence. Did McCarthy's people plant it?:
