Chicago March for Peace call for end to gun violence in wake of deadly shootings

Lots of of individuals joined a March For Peace Saturday from the Magnificent Mile to Millennium Park, the place Seandell Holliday was gunned down.

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It serves as one other name for an finish to gun violence within the metropolis and throughout the nation.

“We have to present our entire metropolis that we could be united,” mentioned Pastor Kent Steiner with Chicago West Bible Church.

“I believe it should take duty. It’ll take some collaboration,” mentioned marcher Adriannia Collins.

The group hopes to pave the best way, hopefully to an answer, to the gun violence seen in Chicago, Buffalo, and most lately, the tragedy that unfolded in Uvalde, Texas.

“We actually imagine we have to come collectively at a time like this – pastors, individuals concerned all through town,” Steiner mentioned.

A coalition of religion leaders known as “Fingers Throughout Chicago,” walked side-by-side with elected officers for the peace stroll.

“We’re declaring that there might be peaceable occasions all through the summer time,” mentioned Pastor Michael Eaddy with Folks’s Church of the Harvest.

Chicago Police unveiled a security plan forward of the Memorial Day weekend. It consists of extra officers downtown, on CTA trains and in neighborhoods, in addition to a citywide curfew for minors beginning at 10 p.m.

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The brand new insurance policies are geared toward making an impression to town for the higher and finish the vacation weekend with no life taken too quickly.

“Gun violence is not going to go away in a single day. At the very least, we’ll see that there are individuals in the neighborhood which are keen to come back out right here and get up, and combat in prayer for the adjustments that we’d like,” Collins mentioned.