As we noted Monday, the homicide rate in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia had picked up a bit. At the end of the weekend, 384 homicides had plagued the City of Brotherly Love, moving the death rate to 1.466 per day, for a projected 535 for the year.
Then the city recorded two more homicides on Monday, on one of which The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. I pointed out that the next ‘milestone’ will be 391 homicides, which is the full year’s total for 2007. The city will probably pass that next weekend.
Well, it will take only one more killing to pass that, as the Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page ending on Tuesday, September 21, 2021, reports that 391 souls have been sent untimely to their eternal rewards.
391 murders ÷ 264 days of the year = 1.481 per day x 365 days in the year = 540.59 homicides projected for the year.
Apparently none of the dead were kids or people of some note or cute little white girls, or the Inquirer would have reported on it. At least as of 10:16 AM EDT, there are exactly zero stories on the main page of the inquirer’s website. And a check again at 3:15 PM shows that is still the case.
Checking overnight reporter Robert Moran’s story page, I found the story 2 dead in separate Philly shootings, but that news is so unimportant that stories like At the Philly Fringe Festival: After vaccines, ‘laughter is the best medicine’ and How are schools deciding to close due to COVID-19 cases? It all depends, which is a full week old, have crowded it out.
Let’s face it: for the “anti-racist news organization” that publisher Elizabeth Hughes claims the Inquirer is, black lives really don’t matter.
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Update: 9:10 PM EDT
Woman fatally shot while sitting in front of her Kensington home
Two men were shot to death on the same block earlier this month.
by Robert Moran | Wednesday, September 22, 2021
East Tusculum Street, via Google Maps.
The shooting happened just after 5 p.m. on the tiny 1800 block of East Tusculum Street, where earlier this month two men were shot dead. The block also is known for the house used as the exterior location of Rocky Balboa’s apartment in the original 1976 movie.
A passenger in a car heading west on Tusculum fired at least three shots, striking the woman at least once in the head, said Police Chief Inspector Scott Small. Her home is across the street and a few doors down from the Rocky house.
Police transported the woman to Temple University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 5:25. Her name was not released.
The shooting was recorded by private surveillance video. The vehicle, which had its back window covered with plastic surrounded by black tape, was later stopped by police at American Street and Indiana Avenue in Fairhill. Three occupants were taken into custody and a gun was recovered, Small said.
There’s more at the original. The rowhouse on the right, at the far end of the street, was used in the Rocky II movie.
At least suspects were apprehended; that is a less than fifty percent occurrence in Philly. But the carnage has continued, and as of now, with 392 homicides, the city has eclipsed its entire year total for 2007, with three months and eight days left in the year. As Queen says, “Another one bites the dust.”
Black lives have never mattered to leftists. In fact regardless of the color no lives matter to leftists. One would think that after all the millions of people of all colors, races, religions and sexes around the world made dead by leftists the absurdity of their feigned “care” would be well known.
All one needs to do in America is look ate the decades of black deaths in cities controlled by leftists to realize if anything black lives matter….less.
As of 11:59 PM EDT on Wednesday, the city is up to 393, so two more people killed yesterday.
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