Posted on 07/16/2018 9:08:16 PM PDT by Simon Green
Hundreds of protesters turned out again Monday, taking over the same block of 71st Street where police shot and killed a man in the South Shore neighborhood on Saturday.
The protests continued after police made the unprecedented decision to release body-camera video of the incident, less than 24 hours after it happened.
It's been two days since 37-year-old Harith Augustus was shot and killed during a confrontation with Chicago police officers. An independent investigation into the shooting is underway, but several groups say they don't trust it.
"I think that Mr. Augustus' constitutional rights were violated," said Maxwell Little, South Shore resident. "To weaponized somebody's blackness is against the law."
Chicago police released body camera video Sunday. Augustus was stopped by police who believed he had a gun.
"We're not trying to hide anything," said Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson. "We're not trying to fluff anything. The video speaks for itself."
While the footage appears to corroborate the police department's version of events, there is no audio to determine what led to the confrontation.
"We need to know who the officer was who actually did this and they need to be held accountable," said Maria Hernandez, Black Lives Matter.
Witnesses to the shooting shared another video of the aftermath, in which they saw three officers running from the shooting and getting into a police car. CPD would not confirm how those officers may or may not have been involved.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...
And there you have it... facts don’t matter. Knowledge doesn’t matter. Only fees fees and mob rule.
Let’s face it, some people are born to raise hell.
The leftist mob doesn’t want facts, they just want named targets.
you may not care about race, but race cares about you
That interrupts the desire for free stuff to stop a riot once in progress.
#factsdon’tmatter
Yes, reason, logic, accountability all out the door in favor of lies.
Up next...
The body cam video was doctored.
“To weaponized somebody’s blackness is against the law.”
What?
My problem with this event is that “the police version” is that the victim “was exhibiting the characteristics of an armed person” and, because there is a right to be armed in this country, that isn’t a justification to search him, let alone to murder him.
Before anyone chimes in and says he was acting “suspiciously”, let me ask how many people would remain perfectly calm and collected if they happened to believe both that police shoot innocent people of their type, and, they happened to know that even though whatever they were doing at the time was legal, that people were often shot to death doing that same thing.
“To weaponized somebody’s blackness is against the law.”
Uh, say again?
Apparantly you don't have the right to be armed in Chicago. Some protestors have claimed he has the right to concealed carry. Is that even possible in Chicago, or has anti-gun rights mentality gone so far in Chicago cops feel justified to shoot on sight if they see one?
Would like someone in IL who knows the law to chime in.
“———that people were often shot to death doing that same thing.”
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They are not often shot——they are rarely shot,but the many times they are NOT shot doesn’t make the headlines.
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From what I understand, more whites are shot than blacks, even adjusting for population.
Couldn't happen to a nicer place.
Wow, what in the world does that even means?
I think your argument goes out the window when the perp starts to fight the police and pull the gun. If he wanted to argue that it was an illegal search and a legal carry, he should have done it with a lawyer in court. His actions suggest he didn’t think it was legal.
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