CHICAGO, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- A group of young black men stand on the sidewalk in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood, and watch as a Crown Victoria with four white plainclothes police officers in it drives up, slows down, pokes their heads out of the window, and speeds off.
Bulletholes are scattered randomly across houses on the street. A broken basketball rim sways in the wind, dangling from a single bolt. The jagged sidewalks are in various states of disrepair and garbage litters empty lots that used to contain houses.
Quentin walked from his employer's administrative office to the service office Cheap Gary Cahill Jersey , wearing the company T-shirt. Suddenly a police car jumped the curb in front of him, and an officer sprang out. Grabbing him, the officer put Quentin in handcuffs.
After sitting him in the back of the cruiser for half an hour, police released him and drove off without an explanation. This is life in West Englewood.
For many Americans, the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown triggered feelings of shock and outrage. For this West Englewood neighborhood, it was a routine tragedy, part of a very familiar reality.
The city seems to have abandoned this neighborhood; homicides and violent crimes happen frequently. The poverty rate in the West Englewood neighborhood is twice the national average Cheap Fikayo Tomori Jersey , and unemployment is at 34.7 percent, nearly six times the national average.
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