On August 27, presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted, “Dwyane Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago”. And ABC News shows it was not unprecedented for Chicago to top 500 murders annually while the ban was in place. The mother of four was in the area to register her children at the nearby Dulles School of Excellence.
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Yet a few days later, he sent out a tweet about a tragedy in National Basketball Association star Dwyane Wade’s family that sounded as though he was, yes, seeing communities of color only as votes. August was the deadliest month in nearly two decades in Chicago with 90 people, an average of three a day, dying in gun violence.
“Enough is enough” ( “enough is too much”) became the leitmotif of Dwyane Wade in his commitment to the worrying situation of American society and violence with firearms.
Wade, 34, recently signed as a free agent with the Bulls after playing for 13 years with the Miami Heat.
Although basketball has brought Wade back to his hometown this year, he sees his goal as being bigger than the game itself. “Basketball is a big part of it, of course”. It’s what I do for a living. The two men have been arrested and charged with first-degree murder. More than 2,600 people have been shot in the city, mainly on the South and West sides. It was the deadliest month in the city since October of 1997. Who got lucky and was able to have mentors in my life to help me. There are other cities that have way tougher gun laws, and we have to do a better job at being leaders, all of us. We have weak gun laws and we have to do a better job of being leaders, all of us.
Aldridge, a mother of four, was caught in the crossfire as several men began shooting at each other on August 26.
“They are fighting a war”, Wade said of Chicago police. NBC5’s Regina Waldroup reports. “The only way we can do more together is if more people know what’s going on”, Wade said. We need more help& more hands on deck. Both brothers were gang members out on parole for gun convictions, according to Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson.
Chicago has been hit hard by violence this year.
“Every day, officers put their lives at risk engaging armed offenders and almost every hour, they take another illegal gun off our city streets”.
The Chicago Bulls shooting guard has made a dedicated effort to help his community under his Wade’s World Foundation.
Let’s just say Wade wasn’t totally thrilled about Trump’s response, calling himself “conflicted”.
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“They come to you and say, ‘But dad, kids are being killed by police officers, ‘” he said.
