Last week, a 63-year-old White man was brutally victimised by what police say was a mob of “teenagers” on the Chicago subway system.
- The bloody incident first occurred on the night of July 8 in the Loop, involving a group of at least ten black youths between the ages of 14 and 22 years old.
- The victim, Michael Manning, was commuting home from work after a 12-hour shift when the gang surrounded him and attacked, leaving bruises and streams of blood across his face. The ambush was carried out on a train car but continued after it spilled out onto the line’s Quincy stop.
- On Monday, one of the suspects, a black 16-year-old, was finally charged with felony robbery of a victim 60 or older and felony aggravated battery of a victim 60 or older. Police are now urging anyone with more information to come forward.
Victim speaks out: Manning, a lifelong Chicagoan, described his experience as a “gauntlet of fists,” and denounced what he called “lawlessness and wanton disrespect.”
- “I knew right away that this was not going to go well, no matter what I said or did. I stood up, and I’m 6’4″, and I guess that was not a good move because I immediately got punched in the back of the head, which sent me forward into the group. They were like, ‘Oh, you’re trying to start something with us!’ Then it was like I was literally running through a gauntlet of fists,” Manning said in an interview to Fox 32 Chicago.
- “They just pounded on me, and I knew I had to get off this car to, like, not die…I don’t understand how you can have this type of lawlessness and wanton disrespect, disregard for basic humanity. And there’s no checks and balances anywhere,” he continued.
Zooming in: While black violence has gripped Chicago for many years, ongoing criminality has transformed the Windy City into one of the most violent cities in the world.
- Over the 4th of July weekend alone, at least 100 people were reportedly shot, including 17 fatally and three targeted mass shootings, in neighbourhoods across the city.
- According to reports, violent crimes in Chicago grew to its highest level in a decade in 2024. Despite this, the arrest rate has dropped, with robbery and vehicle theft rising over 30%.
- In 2023, Chicago reached a whopping 623 total reported homicides. While this number is a 14% decline from the previous year, it’s nearly 50% more homicides than a decade ago.
- The data suggests homicide victims are often younger. Of those killed, 111 were aged 19 and under, reports say.
The big picture: While black-on-black crime is a perennial issue all across America, black Chicagoans have increasingly become implicated in violent crimes targeting the city’s dwindling White majority.
- The city of Chicago joins the former White enclaves of Milwaukee and Detroit in White racial decline. As of 2020, the city is only 31.4% White, down from 75% White in 1960.
- The White-Papers Policy Institute, which tracks the racial replacement of White people from their native homelands, asserts that the state of Illinois was once 83.5% White in 1970.
- Top-down policy decisions have given way to a drastic demographic shift, however, and now only 60.4% of the population is listed as White per the most recent reports.
While the figure is sure to rank higher as reports come in for 2024, the death toll in 2021 was a ghastly 104 shot, 19 dead.
13 of those shot were reportedly children.https://t.co/vsny3QVBpl
— Justice Report (@JR_Newswire) July 7, 2024
This article originally appeared on the Justice Report and is republished by The Noticer with permission.
