Chicago police to turn out at gang funerals
CHICAGO – Police in Chicago are taking their battle against gang violence to church and even the cemetery.
“The police are going to treat gang funerals as a gang event and people will be, appropriately, checked and patted down,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday.
An exasperated Emanuel said the increased police presence is justified because gang leaders have shown “no respect for a place of worship” and for the neighborhoods where the funerals take place.
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