Posted on 11/12/2018 11:00:22 AM PST by Drew68
A police officer mistakenly shot and killed a security guard at a bar in Chicago's south suburbs early Sunday morning, Chicago’s Fox 32 reported.
Witnesses said a security guard told a group of "drunk men" to leave a Robbins bar around 4 a.m. An armed suspect later came back inside the bar and opened fire, WGN-TV reported, citing witnesses.
Armed security guards returned fire, the report said. One the guards -- Jemel Roberson, 26 -- apprehended the suspect outside, witnesses said. Roberson then requested help from Midlothian Police, the Cook County Sheriff's Office said.
A witness told the station that Roberson was holding the suspect on the ground when one of two responding officers fatally shot him.
"The security guard that got killed, he caught somebody and had his knee on him the whole time," said one witness cited by Fox 32. "Just waiting on the police to get there. I guess when the police got there, they probably thought he was one of the bad guys, cause he had his gun on the guy and they shot him."
Four other people, including the shooter, suffered non-life threatening injuries, WGN-TV reported. Midlothian police confirmed that one of its two responding officers opened fire. The officer's identity was not released.
Roberson was reportedly a church organist who was training to become a police officer.
"He was getting ready to train and do all that stuff, so the very people he wanted to be family with took his life," said Pastor Patricia Hill of Purposed Church.
The Cook County Sheriff's Office is investigating the first shooting, while the State Police Public Integrity Task Force is investigating the police shooting.
Robbins is a sparsely-populated village about a 30-minute drive south of Chicago.
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No good deed...
OTOH, I don't know what else the bar could do, except maybe have a blinking neon sign brought to put over the good guy, to tell the trigger-happy cops not to shoot.
I'd hope that someone was filming this, but it really wouldn't matter because cops apparently have carte blanche to kill anyone with a weapon.
Hmmm, they must have thought he was a family pet.
Drop the mag as thew cops arrive, eject any round in the chamber, decock and put the gun on the ground and put your clasped hands behind your head. Let the police handle the bad guy(s).
You forgot to lick their boots. *BLAM*
Gun! Gun! OOPS!
>I don’t know what else the bar could do, except maybe have a blinking neon sign brought to put over the good guy, to tell the trigger-happy cops not to shoot.<<
Bright Green safety vest with “SECURITY” emblazoned on it would go a long way.
I’m guessing this security guard looked pretty much like the patrons. Not that it should matter, but when you call the cops, you have to expect they will assume everyone is a bad guy.
Was he wearing a uniform?.......................
Now all the smart bad guys will buy those. :-)
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“Robbins is a sparsely-populated village about a 30-minute drive south of Chicago.”
Robbins is a hemorrhoid on the anus of Cook County.
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I just looked up small-town Robbins———NO THANKS!!!!
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FWIW, The vast majority of “Security Guards” are former convicts.
It’s one of the few jobs they can get.
> Drop the mag as the cops arrive, eject any round in the chamber, decock and put the gun on the ground and put your clasped hands behind your head. <
I guess that’s good advice. But you had better time it perfectly. Do it too early, and the perp kills you. Do it too late, and the cops kill you.
It might be better if the cops instead just got away from their shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later mentality.
They wonder why nobody likes them.
Sounds like the police screwed this one up. Very sad.
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