Posted on 05/28/2009 3:05:39 PM PDT by KeyLargo
May 27, 2009 9:50 pm US/Central
Cop Robbed Of Gun As He Lay Injured After Crash
Reporting Dana Kozlov CHICAGO (CBS)
A Chicago Police officer was critically injured Wednesday after a violent crash on the city's South Side. As CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports, at first it appeared someone was helping the officer. Instead a man was robbing him of his gun as he lay injured and unable to move.
Before he was taken into surgery, the man was able to tell his fellow officers that someone had stolen his gun and tried to roll him over to take his wallet, too.
Three vehicles collided at the intersection of 98th and Halsted streets about 11:45 a.m., according to police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak. The officer first hit a car with two senior citizens, who weren't hurt, then crashed into a light post.
The officer is being treated at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn.
Earlier Wednesday crews pried the Chicago police SUV off a light pole after evidence technicians spent hours processing it for fingerprints. Detectives aren't only concerned about the officer seriously injured in the accident. They're also concerned with finding the man who took his gun.
"We do know the officer said he remembers hearing the snap on his gun holster," said Chicago Police Dept. spokesperson Roderick Drew.
A young man who witnessed the incident told CBS 2, "The dude was going to try to help him. He opened the door, I thought he was helping him out, but no, he was taking the weapon from his hip… that's all I saw. I ran back to the house. I didn't want nothing else to do with it."
Witnesses say the gun was stolen minutes after the police SUV hit the side of a sedan that was taking a left onto Halsted off 98th Street. The officer was responding to a burglary call, so his siren and lights were off.
"As he was swerving… the police swerved on the other end and they crashed into the pole. It looked like the police was going 75, maybe 80 miles an hour," said witness Hoyle Marshall.
The driver of the sedan, 85-year-old Edward Blackledge, said, "I got into the center and I look up and saw this police car come up real fast fast, no lights and no sirens on."
At least three others in two cars were injured too. Those at the scene say the officer was in really bad shape, making it easy for someone to take his gun.
"He couldn't move to defend himself or to actually hold it, his gun to its holster. So, they slipped it off, took off," witness Terrence Campbell said.
"To know what happened, it just sickens me to happen to anyhow, much less a police officer, someone who was responding to someone else in need," Drew said.
That weapon probably went straight to Mexico. ;-)
>>In many white neighborhoods, they won’t get much resistance.<<
Liberal neighborhoods. It is still easy (as far as I know) to get at least a shotgun. That is a fairly good self defense weapon.
“80 MPH huh? What, was he late for his break?”
The ‘FRESH HOT DOUGHNUTS’ sign at Crispy Cream just lit up.
It wasn't easy to get a pellet rifle in the Peoples' Republic of New Jersey when I was there in 2002. A co-worker wanted one for pest control, and brought back a stack of forms to fill out to ask permission to buy said pellet rifle.
The liberal hell-holes get what they deserve.
Let 'em get stomped and burned, then. They'll deserve what they get for being unprepared and unwilling to defend themselves and their loved ones.
Others will see what happened to those fools and will man-up in a hurry.
I don't want to kill, but what other option do I have when the police don't come?
There was an informative news article out of N.O. about a group of neighbors who banded to gether to keep ruffians out of their area aftyer Katrina. They actually killed several black men. but when I look at my soft, liberal neighbors I know in my heart it will just be me protecting my street.
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