I can’t excuse this one, as he was uniformed and clearly identifiable as a security guard. I realize that anybody could still be a gun man, including a security guard, but somebody clearly uniformed should have given the police a reason to give more time to ascertain his identity.
Except for what happened next: the police arrived and shot and killed Roberson.
I moved back to Chicago a few years ago. I’m an actor, but help one of me best friends who’s a private detective. I was suppose to serve the owner of this bar in Robbins, IL that night. Since I don’t have a gun I told my friend I don’t go to Robbins, when the sun goes down. So we use a Chicago P.D. detective who’s black for these jobs. So the Chicago P.D. detective who went there, called me the next day and told me about this shooting. So sad. Prayers for Jemel Roberson, rest in peace, and prayers for his family and loved ones..
What transpired is really sad, tragic actually. The Illinois State Police came out with a statement regarding preliminary findings and asking for more witness statements. They reported that Jemel did NOT have a security guard uniform. The Midlothian policeman REPEATEDLY told Jemel to drop the gun he had pointed at another person (turns out was the bad guy}. Person(s) yelled to the Midlothian policeman that he was the security guard. Is it possible the Midlo policeman didn’t know or hear as to who was the security guard? Could the guy on the ground with a gun pointed at him be the security guard and the bad guy had a gun? And then the policeman did what he was trained to do?
Cops need to get through their thick heads: “Citizen with gun” does NOT equal “bad guy”. The cops are making themselves into enemies of We the People. They won’t like how that turns out.
This needs to be thorough;y investigated. His widow should achieve a HUGE civil award, enough to take care of her and their baby for life.
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“Thoughts and prayers” come in a far distant second place to a .45 in your hand at the moment of need.
YOU Are the First Responder in any event involving lethal consequences to your life and safety.
Thankfully, a good guy with a gun was present to stop the psycho.
Ideally, MANY good guys with guns would be present, but that’s not the time nor place we find ourselves in.
All each of us can do is be responsible for our own personal sphere of influence and be armed, always.
Did the black guy lower his gun or give any indication he was not the shooter?
OMG!
“He stopped a bad guy with a gun, fulfilling the promise of the Second Amendment, and then died at the hands of government employees who would exercise a near-monopoly on firearms ownership if the most extreme anti-gun activists had their way.”
The author uses this argument to suggest this incidents means “gun-rights groups” (code word for Americans who appreciate the 2A) have a moral dilemma. Except we don’t. The dilemma lays with LEOs (a handful) with no aptitude for that line of work, acting as surrogates of eager government gun-grabbers. If anything, this incident shows precisely WHY we need a right to take up arms: It is in case we need to “water the tree of liberty.”