Posted on 08/20/2014 8:19:45 AM PDT by KeyLargo
Man, 21, fatally shot by police on Far South Side
By Jeremy Gorner
A man on a bike was fatally shot by police on the Far South Side after he aimed a gun at officers, authorities said.
A Calumet District tactical team had tried to stop the 21-year-old man for questioning as he rode a bicycle in the 13300 block of South Forrestville Avenue about 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, authorities said.
Someone had earlier called police about an armed man on a bike, according to a preliminary statement from the Chicago Police Department. Police: 21-year-old man fatally shot Pat Camden, spokesman for Local 7 of the Fraternal Order of Police, talks about a police-involved shooting just outside the Altgeld Gardens public housing complex where police shot and killed a 21-year-old allegedly armed with a gun.
When officers trained a spotlight on the man, he pointed a gun at their unmarked squad car, according to Pat Camden, a police union spokesman.
An officer jumped out of the squad car and chased the man, who jumped off the bike and began to run, authorities said. The man pointed a gun toward officers and police shot him, according to the police department's statement.
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It never stops!
I demand a vigorous prosecution of the officer that shot him regardless of evidence or investigation no need for those things.
Hey, it’s the liberal way.
Take the malt and Newports and leave the belts!
This one needs investigation.
In Chicago would they even know the difference if people started rioting?
CHICAGO CRIME STATS:
Year To Date Totals
Shot & Killed: 227
Shot & Wounded: 1372
Total Homicides*: 266
This isn’t even Chicago, it is a South side suburb, Calumet City, IL. It is, Like Ferguson, MO, an inner ring suburb. This is a city that at one time was a nice suburb, now it is a ghetto.
Those crime stats don’t even include Calumet City.
Let’s see now. A shooting yesterday by police of a black man in another part of St. Louis. One in Philadelphia and now another in Chicago.
Are you from Chicago?
Huh?
You don’t know that the Calumet District is the CPD police district and not the village of Calumet City?
Federal Altgeld Gardens Housing Project is within the city limits.
Maybe you lived on the Gold Coast, I guess.
https://portal.chicagopolice.org/portal/page/portal/ClearPath/Communities/Districts/District5
Not from Chicago, spent lots of time in Chicago in late 90’s early 00’s but haven’t been there in ten years. I did not know they where speaking of Calumet District, thought it was the suburb of Calumet City.
Regardless, Calumet City is a majority black community, just like Ferguson, IL.
From US Census VIA Wikipedia:
The racial makeup of the city was 38.74% White, 52.91% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.53% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 5.37% from other races, and 2.15% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.86% of the population, including 9.4% of Mexican descent.
And what does Calumet City have to do with the news report of a police shooting in Chicago?
You may not be old enough to be aware of this saying:
“what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?”
nothing I said as much. I said I mistook Calumet District for Calumet City.
Thanks anyway for the input.
Sorry, if I sound kinda testy, but this war against us from Obama is making me pissed.
I be chillin now.
Have a good one.:)
I hope that William Kelly will be elected mayor, in 2015. He supports allowing law-abiding people to own guns and defend themselves. His site is www.williamjkellyforchicago.com.
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