(24 Sep 2024)
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Birmingham, Alabama – 23 September 2024
1. Nicole Smith writing on sign
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Birmingham, Alabama – 24 September 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Banks, Birmingham resident:
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“I’m from Birmingham, and to be honest with you, Birmingham has turned to murder-ham and if we don’t get a grip on what’s to come or what’s happening right now. We ain’t going to have no Birmingham. It ain’t going to be no Birmingham because Birmingham youth is not going to be here.”
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Birmingham, Alabama – 23 September 2024
3. Wide view of Hush Lounge
4. View above flowers and candles
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Birmingham, Alabama – 24 September 2024
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Banks, Birmingham resident:
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“They see this every day. It’s just 21 people ain’t get shot. Maybe two, maybe three, maybe one. But they hear these bullets. They hear this gun fire, it every single day.”
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Birmingham, Alabama – 23 September 2024
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Smith, Birmingham resident:
“We’ve always had gun violence in Birmingham, but now I think it’s become a little bit more severe because, you know, things happen everywhere. But I think right now with the city of Birmingham, it’s becoming a bit much.”
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Christie Oliver, Birmingham resident:
“Oh, it’s going to affect the area bad. It’s going to be a lot of police presence. Nobody’s going to want to come to this area anymore. I wouldn’t.”
8. Mayor Randall Woodfin addressing city council
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Birmingham, Alabama – 23 September 2024
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Randall Woodfin, (D) Birmingham:
“At this point in our country, this is more than solvable. And it is unfortunate that innocent people lives, elders, seniors, children, or in our case, young people just standing in line at a club as they continue to be shot and or killed.”
10. Close up of sign at shooting scene
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Nicole Smith, Birmingham resident:
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“It’s affecting our neighborhood pretty badly because, I mean, we’re taking away fathers at their homes and taking away mothers, daughters, nieces, nephews. We’re taking away people’s lives. And I don’t know, it just it puts a really bad, dark cloud on the city.”
12. Signs hanging on rail at Hush Lounge
13. Close up of memorial
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Birmingham, Alabama – 24 September 2024
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Banks, Birmingham resident:
“Because any time you got assault rifles, anytime you can make a handgun turn into an assault weapon, then there’s no sense in saying this is a Magic City, the Magic City is a tragic city now. And we got too many youth disappearing”
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Birmingham, Alabama – 23 September 2024
15. Close up of memorial signs
16. Wide view of memorial at Hush Lounge
STORYLINE:
There was a time, not so very long ago, when this city earned the nickname “Bombingham,” renowned for senseless violence and its strength in confronting the racial hatred that fueled it.
But days after Birmingham endured its third mass shooting of 2024, officials and residents who know what it means to be tested are voicing a new strain of frustration and despair.
With 122 homicides so far this year, the vast majority of them carried out with guns, Birmingham could well break its decades-old record for killings. And in a city that takes great pride in its history of facing down demons, it is increasingly hard for many to see a way out.
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