Kids Off the Block participants meet every Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon for discussions and leadership training, but talks this week hit a little closer to home for some of them.
Diane Latiker, founder of Kids Off the Block, hugs Daqwon Hargrove, 18, while handing out sausages and hamburgers in the Roseland neighborhood in Chicago on May 17, 2022. After handing out food, Latiker talked with the group about Seandell Holliday's recent death.
Seandell Holliday, 16, of the Roseland neighborhood, was fatally shot near The Bean sculpture on Saturday, May 14.“How many of you knew Seandell?” Latiker asked the group on Tuesday. Three teens raised their hands. “I feel like that’s not right, ’cause it’s not every kid in Chicago that’s doing that,” one boy said.
They go downtown for the scenery, the movies, to hang out at the mall and go shopping, they said. One teen boy said he goes there for the girls, who are downtown with their friends. Many of the other young men and boys quickly agreed. He wondered why city leaders chose to crack down on the violence in downtown with the unaccompanied minors rule and a curfew, when violence is happening in their neighborhoods all the time.
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