Posted on 08/25/2014 2:27:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog
NORTH LAWNDALE — Dozens of people gathered on a West Side street Monday afternoon to protest the shooting death of 19-year-old Roshad McIntosh, who was killed by police Sunday night.
Thunder boomed overhead and blowing rain hit a blood-soaked porch in the 2800 block of West Polk Street, where McIntosh's mother, Cynthia Lane, stood outside surrounded by supporters.
"I want my baby, they killed my baby," Lane said, sobbing.
Police responded to a call of an armed men at the Polk Street address Sunday around 7:10 p.m., and when they tried to talk to McIntosh, he ran, authorities said.
Police chased him into a gangway, where he pulled a gun and pointed it toward an officer, police said. The officer fired at the man, killing him.
Police said a weapon was recovered on the scene.
But Lawndale residents, friends and family of the teen, say that they don't believe police accounts. Neighbors rallied outside the scene of the shooting Monday to let Chicago police and politicians know they are angry.
Protestors said that McIntosh had no gun and that he was already on his knees with his hands in the air when police shot him. They maintain that in McIntosh's case and many other police-involved shootings on the West Side, cops have been too quick to pull the trigger.
"They can't keep coming into our community and killing our kids," said Marcia Sloan, who helped organized Monday's demonstration. "We have to unite as a community."
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We have our own contingent of these folk here at FR
They are loud, vocal and insulting and know the cops are to blame as well.
Eg
“no I am a mom who is sick of the cops “making mistakes””
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3196495/posts?page=26#26
Go figure.
You like government abuse eh?
Withdrawing from the hood is most likely what will effectively take place.
Yes, every black perp ever shot by police was on his knees begging not to be shot. Excuse me, I’ve just come down with a severe laughing fit.
let the BLACK Panthers “police” these neighborhoods...
WHAT COULD GO WRONG ?
and cops
I don’t think the Pope is gonna have time to beautify all these saints...
Perhaps it's time that the violent neighborhoods in Chicago be told to police themselves (not sarcasm)
They know they raised thuggish bastards but that doesn’t mean they can’t cash in on his death. I guarantee that this lady had no control over her son after he turned 12. She was also afraid of her poor baby. I guess they want us to believe only perfectly behaved gentlemen are being killed by the cops.
How was Ferguson™?
Did you attend the funeral?
Did you buy lots of merchandise in support of Mike Brown?
Resulting in a power vacuum, and even more chaos.
Eventually, something will fill the vacuum. Can you guess what it will be?
Those black mamas sure love their babies. Not to the extent that they’ll bring them up properly, educate them and teach them right from wrong. But the unconditional love is something to behold.
Nor will a substantial number of our own FReeper family.
It would have been fine if another gang banger blew him away.
Reminds me of a similar scene in one of those Wayans Brothers movies where the skank comes running from her shack screeching about how the PO-lees done murdered her baby. Then a bystander tells her that the corpse she’s caterwauling over isn’t her son . She rolls him over, takes a closer look and then drops him back onto the street and says “F—k it.”
The time to care for your “baby” is when he’s alive, honey.
Because I've recently been advised that black-on-black killings are NOT something we are supposed to notice.
Cuz if white people notice, it's racist. I'm confused.
(Although I guess in a perverse way, I do get it, because I don't really care about black-on-black murder anymore.)
Pretty Boy Floyd was somebody’s baby also.
And with all the beautification he certainly won't have time to beatify them all.
This from the guy who thinks it is okay for a Cali cop to call a lady back out into the road she was leaving, body slam and beat her face in.
You claimed he saved lives with that bs too.
Lol.
Sorry, cops aren’t always right.
But here they possibly made a good call, in St Louis it was a definite good call.
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