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June 27, 2011

Top Chicago Cop Links U.S. Gun Laws to Institutional Racism 
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Chicago’s newly appointed superintendent of police is under fire for
comments he made connecting U.S. gun laws to institutional racism. Garry
Mc Carthy made the statements while speaking at an African-American
church in south Chicago in a neighborhood that has struggled with gun
violence for years.

Garry Mc Carthy, Chicago Superintendent of Police: "Let’s see if we
can make a connection here. Slavery. Segregation. Black codes. Jim Crow.
What did they all have in common? Anybody getting’ scared? Government
sponsored racism. Now I want you to connect one more dot on that chain
of the African American history in this country, and tell me if I’m
crazy: Federal gun laws that facilitate the flow of illegal firearms
into our urban centers across this country, that are killing our black
and brown children."

The Illinois State Rifle Association said Mc Carthy unfairly accused
law-abiding gun-owners and the National Rifle Association of
participating in, “a government-sponsored plan to kill black
people.”



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