Posted on 07/15/2018 6:28:52 AM PDT by Ennis85
Police in Chicago have clashed with protesters after an officer fatally shot a black man who was suspected of carrying a gun.
A crowd of about 150 people shouted "murderers", threw objects and jumped on police cars during the confrontation in Chicago's South Side area.
Officers armed with batons traded punches with the protesters, local media reports said.
Three officers sustained minor injuries and there were four arrests.
A string of police killings of black men, some unarmed, has caused outrage and led to protests in cities across the US.
Police said the demonstrators in Chicago on Saturday were dispersed at about 22:30 local time (03:30 GMT).
The shot man's identity has not yet been released but he is thought to have been aged in his 30s, local media reported.
A police statement said officers on patrol in the South Shore district at about 17:30 local time saw the man "exhibiting the characteristics of an armed person".
"An armed confrontation ensued resulting in an officer discharging his weapon and fatally striking the offender," the statement said, adding that police recovered a gun and two ammunition magazines at the scene.
Chicago police patrol chief Fred Waller told US media that officers saw a bulge in the victim's trousers that they thought was a gun.
When they approached the man, he "started flailing and swinging away, trying to make an escape" and then "reached for the gun", Mr Waller said.
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Where’s the outrage when police officers are killed?
Growing up and I remember the Chicago riots, a throw away gun was a Saturday night special. Lucky if it fired all 6 bullets.
yet chicagoans are silent about the 93% of blacks shot and murdered by other blacks.
please. the hypocrisy is thick.
Hard to say what happened here but "exhibiting the characteristics of an armed person," "saw a bulge that looked like a gun," "trying to make an escape," and finally "reached for the gun"...
All this seems to exhibit the characteristics of panicky b.s.
I agree that on paper, the Second Amendment even applies to Chicago. But, in practice, if police can murder you for “exhibiting the characteristics of an armed person” and aren’t punished for doing so, then the right only exists on paper. I will believe the right exists in a tangible form only if and when either the police leave armed people alone, or police officers who kill armed people for no other reason than that they are armed then face at least charges for deprivation of rights under color of law (resulting in death, a felony), if not outright murder. That day has not yet arrived, at least in Chicago.
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