PHILADELPHIA - A city councilmember is pleading with Mayor Jim Kenney to declare gun violence in Philadelphia a citywide emergency as the homicide rate continues to grow.Makeshift memorials at shooting scenes are becoming commonplace in the city known for its “brotherly love.”Police say in South Philly two teens Jaheim Lamarre and Zaharia McFadden, both 17, were cut down by gunfire pushing still higher the city’s grim murder count.Philadelphia’s top cop sees the killings rooted in despair."The sense of hopelessness and despair you can hear, but we’ve had folks tell us there’s nothing you can do we’re going to do what we’re going to do," Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said.A newly elected member of city council argues there is more to be.
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