Posted on 08/16/2012 1:17:03 PM PDT by Former Fetus
Moments after his motorcycle struck a 4-year-old girl, an off-duty Chicago Police officer shot and killed the girl’s irate father after he allegedly attacked the officer, the Chicago Sun Times reports.
Fraternal Order of Police Spokesman Pat Camden identified the officer as a 43-year-old veteran of the Chicago Police. The officer was headed home on Saturday evening when the horrifying incident occurred.
As he was driving home, the officer says he saw a child unexpectedly run into the street. In order not to strike the girl directly, the cop jumped off his motorcycle, pulling it down on its side on the pavement. However, the motorcycle skidded and flipped, hitting the 4-year-old girl and her 18-year-old cousin, John Passley.
As the officer attempted to provide aide to the girl, her father, identified as Christopher Middleton, 26, came running out of a nearby restaurant and aggressively approached the officer and began shouting, officials said. The cop argues that he identified himself as a police officer but Middleton still hit him in the face and knocked him to the ground before striking him repeatedly.
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From the story, it appears the child is not dead.
Yes whatever “journalist” (using that term very loosely) wrote that headline ought to lose their job.
The cop should have understood the level of distraughtness in the father. You’d think someone on the force for that long would know that.
Simply identifying himself as a cop doesn’t give him a pass from anything.
Cops are not special, even though they and the contingent of JBT-loving boot-lickers here on FR think they are.
Let ‘em eat donuts.
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I only rode a bike for about five years but it's hard for me to understand that maneuver as a way to maintain control of the bike. Was there a sobriety test done?
“Could have been a hot-shot on the motorcycle, aka “reckless driving.”
That’s my guess.”
Yeah, I’m wondering about that too. Makes me wonder if he was splitting lanes or weaving around traffic or something similar which is why he didn’t have time to brake and had to dump the bike.
OTOH, I can say from experience, that with the influx of blacks from New Orleans after Katrina, Phoenix has become a third-world style city where people wander around in the middle of six lane streets with posted speeds of 45MPH where the actually average speed of travel is usually close to 55 and they act like they own the street.
Instead of assisting his injured daughter, the father attacks the off-duty cop. I could understand this if the girl was killed in the accident, but apparently, she was not. What kind of person would ignore his injured child?
Watch the movements of the "Runnin' Reverends" for the next 12 hours and it will become apparent.
The story says 43 year old—veteran.
You start pounding on a cop...he’ll shoot you!
So now there is one less Obama voter in Chicago. Or is there?
No, it doesn’t give him a pass, but he’s still a human being who had a right to defend himself from an angry, out of control young man who for all he knew was going to beat him to death whilst he was lying helplessly on the ground with a broken leg and shoulder...
Understanding had nothing to do with it.
Regardless of his status as a LEO his leg and shoulder were broken and he was defenseless against two adult males stomping him to death.
Anyone would have been justified in using lethal force at that point. The fact that they knew and didn’t care that he was an LEO is just the icing on the cake.
Did you read the article?
I have to travel to a ‘poor’ section of town and the same thing happens OFTEN~!!!!!!!!
These ass holes seems to want to walk out in front of you as nice and slow as they can and seem to dare you to hit them
I nearly hit someone just the other day under the exact same situation- I could NOT even see him in the dark until the last possible moment, and I left AT LEAST 50 feet of skid marks from my tires AND some nice smoke- he scrambled pretty fast at that...
I don’t disagree with your take...I am just wondering how I would react if someone (anyone) had just run over my child....
So this guy shot an unarmed man killing him?
How can this happen in Amerika?
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The child died? I think she was hospitalized.
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