‘This isn’t freedom’: Fourth of July shooting rocks Chicago and shocks US
by Erum Salam and Coral Murphy Marcos from US news | The Guardian on (#612EP)
Leaders and activists demand change after shooter targets Highland Park parade celebrating Independence Day
The shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park that left at least six dead and 24 wounded has rocked the small, well-off community in suburban Chicago, and shocked the US as a whole.
It is the latest in a slew of mass killings that have recently included a shooting at a school in Texas and the racist massacre of Black shoppers at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
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