CHICAGO (NYTIMES) – Fourteen people were shot on Tuesday night (July 21) near a funeral home on the South Side of Chicago, a city where President Donald Trump has said he wants to send federal agents to help curb violence. 

The details of the shooting, which comes amid a surge of gun violence in the city, were confirmed by an official from the Chicago Police Department.

At least 336 people were killed from January till early July, sending Chicago towards one of its deadliest years since the mid-1990s. 

Mr Trump said this week that he planned to soon deploy about 150 federal law enforcement officials to Chicago, but Mayor Lori Lightfoot voiced concern about the role they might play. 

“The deployment of unnamed special secret agents onto our streets to detain people without cause and to effectively take away their civil rights and civil liberties without due process – that is not going to happen in Chicago,” she said in a news conference on Tuesday. 

The summer violence in Chicago and other cities may be exacerbated by the devastating health and economic effects of the coronavirus.

There has also been a groundswell against systemic racism and police violence after the killing of an unarmed African American man, Mr George Floyd, in Minneapolis.

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