“...the officer does not have an obligation to wait to get shot to return fire...”
And, a law abiding, licensed to carry civilian should respond how when they meet a cop?
You reap what you sow.
Liability lawyers are wetting themselves with glee, while City attorneys soil themselves from fear. They should demand this clown’s resignation; he is trying to intimidate people from exercising legal rights, by threatening to murder them.
So, when the CPD murders the first CCW licensee, it can be shown easily that the Police Department’s training was flawed, inconsistent with the law, and likely to result in the death of innocent citizens behaving lawfully — and that they knew that in advance but did nothing to change it. That constitutes willful gross misconduct. Massive damage awards and Chicago bankruptcy coming up.
Chicago juries should refuse to convict anyone who shoots a cop as long as this asshat is in charge of the dept.
Yeah, I love one of the liberal talking points. “If private citizens have guns, and there’s a mass shooting, then when we finally show up two hours later to collect bodies and fill out paperwork, if the incident is still in progress we might shoot the wrong person!”
This police chief obviously needs to be removed from office and prohibited from carrying and owning firearms due to extreme mental instability.