The New York Police Department says there were 250 victims of shootings across the city between June 1 and June 28—an increase of nearly 160 percent from the same period last year, and the largest number for that four-week time frame since 1996.
The jump in gun violence comes amid protests and riots sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man, while he was being arrested in Minneapolis in May. The demonstrations have at times turned violent, fueled by Marxist and anarcho-communist radicals such as Antifa and organizers of Black Lives Matter.
