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Residents Protest After Man, 19, Shot by Cops: 'They Killed My Baby'
DNAinfo Chicago ^ | 8-25-14 | Erin Meyer

Posted on 08/25/2014 2:27:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog

NORTH LAWNDALE — Dozens of people gathered on a West Side street Monday afternoon to protest the shooting death of 19-year-old Roshad McIntosh, who was killed by police Sunday night.

Thunder boomed overhead and blowing rain hit a blood-soaked porch in the 2800 block of West Polk Street, where McIntosh's mother, Cynthia Lane, stood outside surrounded by supporters.

"I want my baby, they killed my baby," Lane said, sobbing.

Police responded to a call of an armed men at the Polk Street address Sunday around 7:10 p.m., and when they tried to talk to McIntosh, he ran, authorities said.

Police chased him into a gangway, where he pulled a gun and pointed it toward an officer, police said. The officer fired at the man, killing him.

Police said a weapon was recovered on the scene.

But Lawndale residents, friends and family of the teen, say that they don't believe police accounts. Neighbors rallied outside the scene of the shooting Monday to let Chicago police and politicians know they are angry.

Protestors said that McIntosh had no gun and that he was already on his knees with his hands in the air when police shot him. They maintain that in McIntosh's case and many other police-involved shootings on the West Side, cops have been too quick to pull the trigger.

"They can't keep coming into our community and killing our kids," said Marcia Sloan, who helped organized Monday's demonstration. "We have to unite as a community."

(Excerpt) Read more at dnainfo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banglist; roshadmcintosh
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1 posted on 08/25/2014 2:27:13 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Was he an aspiring rap star, about to get his G.E.D., turn his life around and support his babies?


2 posted on 08/25/2014 2:28:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: smokingfrog

//rolling eyes. They don’t care to hear the facts, but prefer to hear it the way they want to hear it. The perps are always victims.


3 posted on 08/25/2014 2:29:36 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: smokingfrog

trayvon envy


4 posted on 08/25/2014 2:30:16 PM PDT by kdot
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Video report

Man fatally shot by police in East Garfield Park - FOX 32 News Chicago http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/26360166/authorities-man-fatally-shot-by-police-in-chatham


5 posted on 08/25/2014 2:30:18 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

There was a police shooting in Detroit a couple days after the Ferguson shooting. BAMN managed to pull a crowd together for a small mob but the locals told them to take a hike because some folks need killin.


6 posted on 08/25/2014 2:30:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: smokingfrog

Here we go again.


7 posted on 08/25/2014 2:31:22 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: smokingfrog

Simple. STOP answernig 911 calls in those neighborhoods. STOP sending patrols into those neighborhoods.

Let them rot in their own sewage.


8 posted on 08/25/2014 2:32:06 PM PDT by SolidRedState (I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
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Was he an aspiring rap star, about to get his G.E.D., turn his life around and support his babies?

You left out the part about him just starting to go to church.

9 posted on 08/25/2014 2:32:08 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Mastador1

Like this?

Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196912/posts


10 posted on 08/25/2014 2:33:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

naturally


11 posted on 08/25/2014 2:34:04 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: SolidRedState

THIS comment, might have a lot of truth in the content. Let them start their own Safety Patrols in their communities... Really. It would save tax dollars.


12 posted on 08/25/2014 2:34:11 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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"Police chased him into a gangway, where he pulled a gun and pointed it toward an officer, police said. The officer fired at the man, killing him. "

That cop had some nerve not to sacrifice his life for "baby." /s

13 posted on 08/25/2014 2:34:30 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: smokingfrog

OGNTSA.


14 posted on 08/25/2014 2:34:58 PM PDT by dfwgator
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15 posted on 08/25/2014 2:36:39 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: smokingfrog

He’s Black Irish...


16 posted on 08/25/2014 2:37:13 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: smokingfrog

It’s time for a national police stand-down day.
Let the citizens work it out for themselves.


17 posted on 08/25/2014 2:37:52 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: smokingfrog

Roshad McIntosh

Black Irish?


18 posted on 08/25/2014 2:38:15 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (Your feelings don't trump my free speech!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise

And convenience store clerks.

19 posted on 08/25/2014 2:38:20 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: smokingfrog

Sigh, so many parents are in denial their children are bad seeds.

Too bad community activists pander to that denial.


20 posted on 08/25/2014 2:38:25 PM PDT by RginTN
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