Pfleger wrote in a Facebook post that Comcast couldn’t send a technician to St. Sabina Church “because our area has too much violence”.
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Violence is certainly no stranger to the South Side neighborhood, where a funeral for 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee was held at St. Sabina on Tuesday.
“It’s unacceptable for a business to start redlining like that, racial profiling a community that goes through enough neglect”, Pfleger said.
Pfleger, who shook hands and hugged visitors who filled the pews and lined up along the walls and on staircases of the church, received a standing ovation for questioning why an abundance of community and police resources were devoted to look for suspects in the fatal shooting of a suburban Chicago police officer, whose death was later ruled a suicide, but not when someone killed a child. “Our children have a right to walk our streets”.
The company also said it attempted to contact Father Pfleger. Tyshawn’s dad Pierre Stokes told media in Chicago his child’s demise had nothing to do with posse affiliations and is baffled the police are concentrating on him. Police have said Tyshawn was “lured” from a park into the alley because of his father’s alleged gang connections.
Tyshawn was shot and killed on November 2, during a crime described by Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy as “probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime” that he has seen in his 35-year policing career. Residents of Chicago, however, point to 9-year-old Tyshawn’s murder as a tragic and shocking foray into what they wonder has become a new norm for gangs.
Thomas reports that Chicago Congressman Bobby Rush, himself a former Black Panther, says he visited the gangsters in a supermax Colorado prison, where they talked about the killing of nine year old Tyshawn Lee.
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Police say they have now identified several persons of interest. Meanwhile, the reward for information leading to the arrest of Tyshawn’s killer has grown to around $35,000.
