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‘We’re just tired, we’re just sick of them killing us,’ Benton Harbor resident Bonita Bulger, 28, told the Times. ‘Our backs are against the wall. The jobs are low. Our kids have nothing to do.’ Evette Taylor, 31, told the Chicago Tribune that Benton Harbor residents ‘have had enough. We have to take a stand. It [the violence] ain’t right, but it’s justified.’ ‘They’re not going to keep killing us,’ Bulger told the Detroit Free Press. ‘We’re going to strike back. It’s a black-white issue. It’s a police issue. We can’t go on living like this.’ ‘There just ain’t no justice here,’ Jimmie King, 31, a Benton Harbor native, told the Chicago Sun Times. ‘There are a lot of people in this community who are upset with the way black folks are being treated. A lot of people have just given up’.

Paul Street looks at Benton Harbor.

originally posted by zagg