Irish Examiner View: America’s unresolved problems continue

People look on as a construction site burns in a large fire near the Third Police Precinct on May 27, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Picture: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images.

America is so inured to gun crime that last weekend’s Memorial Day Weekend violence in Chicago hardly made national, much less international headlines.

The city, its population heading for 3m, saw 10 people shot dead over the weekend and another 50 shot. This casual violence would be a challenge for any society but in one rocked by another wave of riots provoked by the police killing of another black person, George Floyd, in Minneapolis, it must sound alarm bells.