Black Lives Matter is conspicuous by its silence

Chicago had a rough month in August.

Malik Causey was one of 91 homicide victims in Chicago in August, the deadliest month in the city in two decades and the latest milestone for a metropolis becoming known for its murder rate. Already, killings here have jumped 46 percent over the same period last year, climbing past the 500 mark — a total larger than Los Angeles and New York combined.

An analysis of the August toll shows more clearly than ever who's dying in the Chicago slaughter and what's behind it: surging violence in a handful of the city's most impoverished neighborhoods, which are riven by loosely organized street gangs.

Young African-American men are the chief victims. In a city that's one-third black, the overwhelming majority of those murdered in August — 71 — were, like Malik, African American. Another 11 had Hispanic surnames. Almost half were in their teens or early 20s.

And more than 70 percent of those shot to death appeared on the Chicago police's "Strategic Subject List," which includes 1,400 people considered likely targets of violence based on gang involvement or criminal record.

There's more at the link.

And Black Lives Matter doesn't have a single bloody word to say about it . . . although it has plenty to say about individual black lives lost to police gunfire, even when the policeman was himself black, and the victim had both a gun and a lengthy criminal record.

I wonder if anyone at all in BLM understands the meaning of the word 'hypocrisy'?

Peter