Milwaukee girl cut down by gunfire wrote of senseless violence
Two years before her death, by bullets that shattered her bedroom window Monday night, 13-year-old Sandra Parks wrote about the violence that plagues many Milwaukee neighborhoods.
"We are in a state of chaos," Sandra wrote as a sixth-grader in an award-winning essay commemorating the life of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
"In the city in which I live, I hear and see examples of chaos almost every day. Little children are victims of senseless gun violence," she wrote. "Many people have lost faith in America and its ability to be a living example of Dr. King's dream!”
Continue reading: 'We are in a state of chaos': Milwaukee girl cut down by gunfire wrote of senseless violence https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2018/11/20/milwaukee-homicide-girl-13-dies-after-shots-fired-into-home/2064310002/
Sandra Parks’ Essay https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5204832-Sandra-Parks-Essay.html#document/p1
Pattern of Violence https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUDaValP-9OKvgrcwYShCTE9qGLYtnf8M
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