01 Nov 22
@jj-adams saidThe St Valentines Day massacre was in the news because the Italians were impersonating the police to commit murders
The St Valentine Day Massacre had only 5 people dead and the country freaked out over how outrageous the slayings were because nothing like it had ever happened in Chicago.
Now such things are a daily occurrence.
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01 Nov 22
@athousandyoung saidNo, that wasn't it at all.
The St Valentines Day massacre was in the news because the Italians were impersonating the police to commit murders
Read the news articles from the time.
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01 Nov 22
@athousandyoung saidThe Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead.[20] The 2001 Tulsa Reparations Coalition examination of events identified 39 dead, 26 black and 13 white, based on contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates, and other records.[
300 killed at the Tulsa Massacre in 1921
@jj-adams said…and they estimate a total of 100-300 dead (witnesses say they were buried in unmarked mass graves) but the bodies were not found. Don’t selectively quote sources like that it’s dishonest.
The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 36 dead.[20] The examination of events identified 39 dead, 26 black and 13 white, based on contemporary autopsy reports, death certificates, and other records.[
@jj-adams saidYou mean like this one:
No, that wasn't it at all.
Read the news articles from the time.
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/02/14/today-history-february-14-1929-gangster-al-capones-enemies-gunned-down-st-valentines-day-massacre/4723874002/
Victoms are lined up against wall; one volley kills all
Assassins pose as policemen; flee in “squad car”
The idea that the cops might pull you over, line you up against the wall and then gun you down is what bothered people.
@moonbus saidBang on, busman.
Some uninvited guest to a Halloween party was asked to leave and fired randomly into the group, killing one and injuring others. Teenagers.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/us/kansas-city-halloween-party-shooting/index.html
Same night, a drive-by shooting in Chicago…
https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/us/chicago-drive-by-shooting/index.html
America, wake up! This has ...[text shortened]... . A generation of brats who think they’re entitled to go to parties and are prepared to kill for it.
Moonbus and I grew up in the 50's and 60's when we never saw school shootings, carjackings, drive Bys, and such.
It seems the more successful America got, the meaner and more violent the people became.
The people need a reset, as there is only so much law enforcement can do.
Nature abhors a vacuum. Watch out for the Christian right making a serious rise.
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@athousandyoung saidAnd tell me....
Violence has not increased in 30 years what is “new” to you?
HOW many shootings in Chicago are there every weekend?
How many murders every week?
But that St Valentine's Day Massacre that freaked the nation out, yeah, that was just awful by comparison.
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@athousandyoung saidWho is "they" that estimate 300 bodies?
…and they estimate a total of 100-300 dead (witnesses say they were buried in unmarked mass graves) but the bodies were not found. Don’t selectively quote sources like that it’s dishonest.
300 bodies never found ....in mass graves....in a major city.....and 100 years later they are still not found.
BS claim.