The attorney general was headed to Chicago on Thursday to unveil Justice Department plans to target the illegal flow of firearms across state lines.
Chicago police Superintendent David Brown speaks to media during a news conference at police headquarters, Wednesday, May 26, 2021, on the police department's new draft of a foot pursuit policy.
Five men were shot on the city's West Side on Wednesday, including a 14-year-old boy who was fatally shot in the head, according to police. Minutes later several blocks away, five people – including teens ages 14, 15 and 17 – were wounded. Then, just before midnight, eight people who had been traveling on a party bus on the city's North Side were wounded in a drive-by shooting, according to police.
Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown called on community members to come forward with information about the shootings in a Thursday press conference. Many of the people targeted in the shootings were not cooperating with law enforcement, Brown said. "We want to keep our babies safe. They deserve a right to live," pastor James Brooks of Harmony Community Church in North Lawndale, where two of the shootings happened, said at the press conference Thursday. "We need the community to help us. We need everybody. It’s all of our responsibility to step out and say something.
"Reform is good for policing," Brown said Thursday. "It has the potential to build trust with the communities."
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