Last year, 12-year-old Zarriel Trotter spoke out against the violence roiling his Chicago neighborhood.
“I don’t want to live around my community where I’ve got to keep on hearing and hearing: People keep on getting shot, people keep on getting killed,” Trotter said in a public service announcement about the effect of gun violence on the city’s black youth.
The video won an award, but gun violence in Chicago only got worse.
And on Friday, in a tragic and ironic twist, Trotter became one of its latest victims.
You can deny God or pray to him. At a time like this for the suffering children across the planet–suffering because of adults kind you–I think we should all ask for a divine intervention.. Meanwhile, on your late local news, madness abounds .. It’s not supposed to be this way..