Posted on 12/25/2014 9:45:48 PM PST by Nachum
A Chicago man was shot by police after lunging at officers with a knife. The man stabbed an officer twice in his protective vest.
The man was in critical condition after being shot twice by police. The Chicago Sun-Times reported:
An allegedly suicidal man with a knife was shot and wounded by a Chicago Police officer on Christmas Day after he lunged at officers, injuring one of them, authorities said.
Grand Crossing District police officers drove up to a building at 6:40 p.m. in the 400 block of East Marquette Road in the Woodlawn neighborhood to respond to a call of a man threatening suicide, according to Deputy Chief Berscott Ruiz of the South Chicago District.
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Since they didn't mention race we can assume that either the perp was white, or the cop was black (or both).
Gun, paper, scissors...
No second place...
any protests or riots?
Killing cops should be a human right...for blacks....that’s the way it’s going...
It happened in Chicago. That tells me everything.
Yep. Wouldn’t have even been in the news if it wasn’t wrong color cop. Here we go again.
I get a feeling this is the new MO. Whenever a black person is shot, get the film out, or the story out fast ... Before the protests and riots.
Attempted suicide by cop.
But why couldn’t the police just shoot the knife out of his hand???
But why couldn’t the police just shoot the knife out of his hand???
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Didn’t the ‘grizzled old sidekick’ in many a Western Movie used to call that ‘wingin’ em?
Kind of reminds me of the 500 shot 6 shooters and the ‘White Hats’ (If White Hats mean GOOD GUYS, doesn’t that mean the BAD GUYS wear ‘Black Hats’ or had ‘cute’ names such as Black Bart)?
Guess we WERE racist growing up.
The LIBS changed ‘Rs’ from BLUE State to RED State with nary a whimper from us, WHY Don’t we just start calling the ‘darker hued’ people White and the ‘lighter hued’ people Black.....
‘Change’ the meaning of a word and who is to know the difference?????
And the Woodlawn area on the Southside is ground zero for the cultural rot in Chicago.
I heard that Ford claimed he improvised that scene and it wasn’t in the script.
Cop’s gotta go down for this! Perp had a knife and the use of a gun by the cop was an extreme and non proportional response. </sarc>
Police: Man with knife shot by police after lunging at officers
Posted: Dec 26, 2014 5:44 AM CST Updated: Dec 26, 2014 5:45 AM CST
CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) -
An allegedly suicidal man with a knife was shot and wounded by a Chicago Police officer on Christmas Day after he lunged at officers, injuring one of them, authorities said.
Grand Crossing District police officers drove up to a building at 6:40 p.m. in the 400 block of East Marquette Road in the Woodlawn neighborhood to respond to a call of a man threatening suicide, according to Deputy Chief Berscott Ruiz of the South Chicago District, the Sun-Times is reporting.
When the officers got out of their vehicle, they saw a man sitting on a porch. The man lunged at them with a knife and twice struck the protective vest of one of the officer, Ruiz said on the scene Thursday night, citing a preliminary report.
The man then started walking eastbound, and when the officers asked him to drop his weapon, he turned around and again lunged at the officers, Ruiz said.
The man was shot twice in the torso and taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, Ruiz said.
The injured officer also was taken to an area hospital for treatment of minor injuries, Ruiz said. He was listed in good condition.
The knife used in the incident was recovered, police said.
Ruiz didn’t take questions from the media at the scene of the incident.
The police officer performed as trained with shot placement to the the deadly threat’s body mass.
Unlike the media talking head experts who we know will say that in this case the officer should have shot the knife out of the perp’s hand.
What I am concerned about is, after already being struck by the knife the first time maybe the officer in that split second hesitate to shoot because of fear that he will be crucified by the Leftist media and lose his job, or worse?
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