By Brittany Garzillo
After violent Chicago weekend, Pfleger calls on communities to turn shooters in
Father Michael Pfleger urged Chicago communities to break what he calls a "code of silence" and turn shooters in to police.
CHICAGO - Calls to end the violence are growing louder.
"Unacceptable" -- that is how Father Michael Pfleger of Saint Sabina Church described this weekend's gun violence in Chicago.
On Monday, Pfleger held a rally with the community to call for change.
“I’m just really sad and heartbroken and really confused,” said Yolanda Addison.
Addison says her son, Toby Boens, was shot and killed on Chicago’s West Side on Father’s Day. He was 22-years-old.
“He didn’t get to see his son on Father’s Day,” Addison said.
Father Pfleger calls the gun violence this past weekend "disgusting” and he's demanding three things change.
First, he wants the city and state to act as aggressively with gun violence as he says they did with COVID-19.
“We had press conferences. We had them every day about the virus. But nobody’s talking about the violence,” Pfleger said.
He also wants the police department to solve more crimes because he says if cases are not solved, people will not be afraid to get caught.
“Today is exactly three weeks and one day since I've been shot and it's the first day that I heard from any police officer in Chicago,” said gun violence victim Teyonna Lofton.
Finally, Pfleger urged the community to break what he calls a "code of silence" and turn shooters in to police.
“This cannot be tolerated. This is not normal. We have people living in the post-traumatic stress of poverty, violence and a virus,” he said.
Father Pfleger says he did talk to Mayor Lori Lightfoot Monday and expects her to follow through with crimes being solved and followed up on.
Where was his voice this past March when the prisons were being emptied out?
Reverend Phleger's many years of service hasn't accomplished much. The issues of his first year still remain. (ب_ب)
ReplyDeletePhleger must not read his Bible much. Back then, people were stoned for various offenses. Murderers were executed. In Jesus' day, murderers were executed. Jesus himself was executed! ರ_ರ
Instead of pushing for executions of evil murderers, Phleger wants people to turn evil murderers in, which will never happen. Nobody wants retaliation from gangs. ಠಿ_ಠ
When Phleger gives up his bodyguards and guns and/or advocates armed citizens and executions, I'll take him seriously. ¯\_ಠ_ಠ_/¯
By FOX 32 Chicago
June 23, 2020
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It will never change, that's a fact. Just more lip service.
ReplyDeleteDont you think at least a little of the blame is that the men of the cloth dont teach gang bangers the ten commandments? Also what heaven and hell are about?
ReplyDeleteMost Black churches promote preachers, their wives and politics. It's common to have political rallies during services too. (●__●)
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