Harper said the dog's handler and another officer, both in uniform, were driving on Arlington Avenue in a marked police car to respond to a report of shots fired when they spotted Justin Jackson. They stopped because they believed he was carrying a gun, the chief said.
But, this also struck me:
Others saw the shooting as a tragic reminder of the general decline in the neighborhood.
"I think it's kinda scary. You can't come out at night. I think a lot of it is the drugs and guns and violence," Sue Carroll said.
"We gotta get out of here," agreed Lisa Fehr, who still lives a few blocks away on the South Side Slopes where she was raised. "As soon as my two daughters graduate (from high school). People are walking around with guns. We can't live here."
Something tells me that at least one source of the violence in the neighborhood has now been eliminated...
This is a common practice in really tough neighborhoods.
What gave the police officers cause to believe he was carrying a gun?
I mean, c'mon, the police are responding to a "shots fired" report, they are cruising down the street at 35 or 40 miles an hour (conservatively), they see this guy walking down the street and say to each other, "That guy has a gun. We can't see the gun, we don't have anyone that says he's got a gun, but we know, he has a gun.", they come to a screeching halt and tell him to take his hands out of his pockets.
Something doesn't look right here.
Either they saw something that gave them pause or this is right out of Minority Report.