Source: Steve Keeley of Fox 29 News, May 25, 2022. Click to enlarge.

While I have mentioned the censorship of The Philadelphia Inquirer previously, we don’t always get the evidence quite so directly.

Police Officer Miguel Torres, Badge Number 7191, reported on a shooting in Mantua:

16th District — Shooting Incident

35XX Fairmont Avenue on highway at 7L06 PM. Victim #1 – Black female 19 years old was shot 2X in the right side. She was transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center by RPC 16S6. She is in stable condition. Victim #2 – Black female 34 years old was shot 2X in the right leg. She was transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center by EPW 1601. She is in stable condition. Victim #3 – Black male 59 years old was shot 3X in the right leg. He was transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center by RPC 16S7. He is in stable condition. Victim #4 – Black male unknown age was shot multiple times in the right side. He was transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center by RPC 16T1. He is in critical condition. Scene held, no arrest and no weapon recovered.

So, how did the Inquirer report the incident?

Gun violence across the city Wednesday also included a quadruple shooting in Mantua. At about 7 p.m., while walking on the 3500 block of Fairmount Avenue, a 19-year-old woman was shot twice in her right side, a 34-year-old woman was hit twice in right leg and a 59-year-old man was shot three times in his right leg. A 19-year-old male was shot multiple times in his right side,. All of the victims were brought to Penn Presbyterian, police said. Three were in stable condition, but the teenage male was in critical condition.

Police told reporters on the scene that the four victims were walking to a prom send-off party when they were shot, possibly by someone riding by on a bicycle, according to FOX29.

Reporter Rita Giordano cited Fox 29 News as her source, but the Fox 29 report did not state that the victims were transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, so Miss Giordano had to have a second source. The police report noted that each of the victims was black, something wholly omitted from the Inquirer article. Why does the Inquirer censor the news?

The 19-year-old male victim appeared to be the person specifically targeted when the “gunman rode past the four victims on a mountain bike and fired at least 9 shots from a semi-automatic weapon,” according to the Fox 29 News report. The other victims were simply struck by “stray bullets.”

Four people shot to death and eight others wounded Wednesday in Philly

The incidents included a quadruple shooting in Mantua on the 3500 block of Fairmount Avenue. Police said the victims were walking to a prom send-off party.

by Rita Giordano | Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Four people were killed and eight others were wounded by gunfire in Philadelphia on Wednesday, including four victims in a quadruple shooting in Mantua.

A 20-year-old man was shot multiple times on West Erie Avenue in North Philadelphia at about 2 p.m. and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Moments before, police responded to a double homicide in Kensington. A 45-year-old man was shot seven times in the body and died at Temple University Hospital. A 44-year-old man was shot in the head and died at the scene.

A fourth person was found dead Wednesday around 8 p.m., when homeowners on the 2300 block of Bailey Terrace in South Philadelphia came home to find a man on the floor who had been shot in the chest, police said.

When Steve Keeley of Fox 29 News tweeted the police report on that last homicide, I replied:

If the @PhillyInquirer reports on this story at all — they probably won’t — they will remove the fact that the victim is black from the story, because that’s what they do.

And that, of course, is exactly what Miss Giordano did.

The double homicide in Kensington? The published police report identified them as a “45Y/O H/ML” and a “44Y/O B/ML”

Miss Giordano’s report missed one: the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page reported that there were five more homicides Wednesday, 193, than reported on Tuesday, 188.

This might not be such a pronounced censorship had the newspaper not also published an article, “These are the victims of the Uvalde elementary school shooting,” identifying several — not all — of the victims by name, all of which appeared to be Hispanic to judge from their surnames, and in some cases, with photos.

But one thing is clear: black lives don’t matter to The Philadelphia Inquirer!

Oh, the newspaper is full of articles about the shooting in Texas, and how horrible, horrible! it was, and how teachers and children all across the country are very worried, but it’s all propaganda. As we noted yesterday, The Washington Post has maintained a running total of these incidents, and concluded that there have been 185 fatalities in shootings at schools since the Columbine massacre in 1999.

The Post has found that at least 185 children, educators and other people have been killed in assaults, and another 369 have been injured.

According to Education Week, there will be 50,700,000 students in the public schools based on federal projections for the fall of 2022. The Washington Post claimed that there have been 185 public school students slain in school since 1999.

So, let’s do the math: 185 dead overall, divided by the 23 years since 1999, equals 8.034 students killed per year. With a population of 50,700,000, that works out to a homicide rate of 0.0159 per 100,000 population!

Philadelphia’s homicide rate was 35.04 per 100,000 population; Chicago’s was 29.83. Students in America’s public schools have been incredibly safe!

Of course, I’m an [insert slang term for the anus here] for pointing that out.

If black lives mattered to the Inky, they would be telling us that the vast majority of the victims in the city’s homicide epidemic are black, wouldn’t be trying to hide that due to political correctness, or due to the “anti-racism” of publisher Elizabeth ‘Lisa’ Hughes.

For the Inky, for the credentialed media, it takes a school shooting, still an incredibly rare event, to generate their righteous anger, but when it comes to the daily bloodshed in the streets of our major cities, they mostly keep their keyboards quiet, because to do the math, to tell the entire truth, is to tell an uncomfortable truth: the vast majority of the killings in our cities are the killings of black Americans by other black Americans.

The St Louis Metropolitan Police Department is one of the few agencies to break down the statistics by race and ethnicity in an easy-to-read format. As of Wednesday, May 25^th, there have been 69 homicides in the Gateway City, and 64 of the victims — 52 men and 12 women — have been black. Of the 38 identified suspects, all have been black.

St Louis population are 46.53% white, 46.41% black, 3.36% Asian, and 2.41% bi- or multi-racial.

In Lexington, Kentucky, where I lived from 1971 through 1984, there have been 11 homicides thus far in May, for a total of 21 in 2022,^[1]The linked story says that there have been 20 homicides, but the city’s homicide database recorded seven, for a then-total of 17. That makes four not listed, and, last time I knew, 17 + 4 = 21. … Continue reading a number not reached until July 4^th in 2021, which saw the city set a record of 37 killings. Though the city’s database does not identify homicide victims by race, the shootings investigation database does, and out of 41 recorded shootings as of May 11^th, 6 victims are listed as white, 2 as Hispanic, and 33 as being black.

Lexington’s population are 74.86% white, 14.61% black, 3.75% Asian and 3.75% two- or multi-racial.

The credentialed media love to play up school shootings like the recent one in Texas, because the victims are wholly innocents, but refuse, absolutely refuse, to identify the common shootings in our cities by anything but the most cursory of stories, because the facts in those stories can be extremely uncomfortable. But when you hide the facts, you can never come up with the right answers if you are looking for solutions.