....It was Feb. 27, 2016, the day that Kaniya and her brother became two of the more than 2,400 children in Chicago who would lose a parent to a gun homicide between that year and 2020, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis by The Washington Post. On average over that five-year period, the city’s pervasive gun violence stripped nearly 10 children of a parent every week. Almost all were Black or Hispanic.

But dozens of them didn’t just face the death of the person they loved and depended on most in the world. They watched it happen — an experience that researchers have found can do more psychological damage to children than if they were shot themselves....

Do Black lives really matter to Black Lives Matter and similar organizations? Or do they just hate police?

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In Chicago, more than 96 percent of the parents lost to gun violence were Black or Hispanic