Posted on 08/19/2014 12:34:04 PM PDT by Dallas59
HARVEY, Ill. (WLS) -- A Harvey police officer was shot by a burglary suspect who is now holding people hostage inside a home at 147th and Robey, officials said.
The officer was wounded in his arm, according to spokesperson Sean Howard, and was taken to Advocate Christ Hospital.
The police officer came across a burglary in progress and exchanged fire with the offender, Howard said. The offender then ran into the home, where he is now holding people hostage.
Officials do not know how many hostages are being held.
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i am surprised atheists have not yet demanded that public officials not be taken to christian-run hospitals.
Harvey is 75% African American.
I’m sure Holder is going there after he stirs up trouble in Ferguson.
There will be hell to pay if this is a black cop. . . . :)
Yep we need to know the race of the suspect and the race of the cops. Then we can have our knee jerk opinion on what is going on here. (Sarcasm)
The offender then ran into the home, where he is now holding people hostage.
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Let me guess. An aspiring rapper who has just turned his life around and was just peacefully protesting in Ferguson.
“Hands up! Don’t Shoot!”
Those Quaker kids are just too damn bad.
So far, it's been just like the 1960s....blacks destroying their own communities beyond repair.
Harvey is a real bad place.
It’s where that mall was that was featured in The Blues Brothers. It sat rotting away for over 30 yrs. before being torn down a few years ago. It had become the World’s Biggest Crack House.
Figured this was Harvey, Louisiana...not Illinois.
HARVEY, Crook County, Illinois has similar demographics as Ferguson, MO.
Now there is an all black city administration and police department. The white officers left and were gone by the 1980s. Any white officer in his right mind will get out of Ferguson PD ASAP.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Harvey-Illinois.html
“From 1960 to 1980 Harvey changed dramatically as the African American population rose from 7 to 66 percent. The turnover led to racial violence at Thornton Township High School and to race riots in 1969. Simultaneously, Harvey lost its industrial and commercial base. The closing of Dixie Square became a symbol of the city’s escalating social problems. Many residents with HUD loans could not meet mortgage payments, leading to abandoned residences. Harvey’s rates of crime, unemployment, and poverty were among the suburbs’ highest. The city struggled to redevelop industrial properties and improve its reputation as a residential city.”
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/568.html
From same updated article:
“A second officer was shot around 2:30 p.m. He has a graze wound to the arm, Howard said.
Rosa Parks Middle School is on lockdown. Officials said 30 to 40 staff members and teachers are there preparing for the first day of school. There are no students in the building.”
A Harvey, IL cop was shot in November.
“Person of Interest” Questioned in Shooting of Harvey Officer
Who would want to be a police officer these days?
I hope the Black Panthers show up soon to calm the situation down
“Harvey is a real bad place.”
Yep.
Guilty plea in slaying of Metra cop
Gary man admits to being lookout in 2006 shooting
October 29, 2010|By Matthew Walberg, Tribune reporter
Pamela Cook caressed the diamond pendant around her neck as she stood outside the Markham courthouse moments after a Gary man pleaded guilty on Friday to the murder of her husband, Metra police Officer Thomas Cook.
“I got it after he was killed,” Cook said of the pendant as she squinted in the low afternoon sun. “I kind of put the journey (necklace) on today because this is the journey, you know, that you go through to make sure that this is all done.”
Jeremy Lloyd, 22, pleaded guilty to murder for acting as a lookout in Cook’s slaying in September 2006. He also pleaded guilty to attempted murder for his involvement in a shootout with a Harvey cop earlier that same day.
Cook was sitting in his squad car outside the 147th Street Metra station in Harvey late at night when he was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range. He was killed instantly, and his .357-caliber service weapon was stolen.
The assailants were after Cook’s gun — they needed a replacement for two weapons lost in a shootout with Harvey police Officer Alex Gbur that morning, Assistant State’s Attorney Joe Kosman said at Friday’s hearing.
Gbur had responded to a volley of gunfire in the 15200 block of South Loomis Avenue in Harvey when he was flagged down by group who said two men had driven past them and opened fire. The officer pursued the car with the gunmen in it. Lloyd and another man opened fire on Gbur and then fled, eventually ditching both their car and guns.
That night, Lloyd and his accomplice got a gun from another man, then went to rob a Metra police officer to get his gun, leading to Cook’s murder, Kosman said.
Sheriff’s deputies, auditors descend on Harvey’s city hall
March 21, 2014|By Matthew Walberg and Joe Mahr | Tribune reporters
Cook County sheriff’s deputies and officials from the state comptroller’s office descended on Harvey’s City Hall on Friday to begin auditing financial records in an effort to enforce a watchdog law long ignored by the scandal-plagued south suburb.
The action came on the same day the Tribune reported on questionable insider deals in Harvey occurring while the city’s appointed comptroller is warning that the suburb is heading toward financial ruin. The deals included $88,000 to a firm tied to the mayor’s son for social media work — the quality of which experts questioned.
That story followed a series of Tribune articles in February that documented how Harvey has become arguably the most lawless community in the region, reeling from the effects of high violent crime rates, subpar policing and shaky finances amid ineffectual or nonexistent oversight from state and federal authorities. That included the suburb failing for years to follow a law — overseen by the state comptroller — that requires cities and villages to perform yearly audits.
Under Illinois law, if a town does not complete its audit, the state comptroller is allowed to hire auditors to do it and bill the town for the work.
On Friday, four sheriff’s vehicles arrived at the south suburb’s aging City Hall, joined by an SUV and a minivan with state plates. About a dozen people from those vehicles entered City Hall and walked into the office of the city clerk, an elected official whose job includes keeping and tracking the city’s records.
Harvey, Illinois 2nd Congressional District was represented by now Federal Prison inmate Jesse Jackson, Jr.
Wednesday February 20th, 2013, 11:57am
Jackson Jr. Pleads Guilty To Misuse Of Campaign Funds
Jesse Jackson Jr. plead guilty this morning to misusing campaign funds and is set to be sentenced in June.
“I am guilty, your honor,” Jackson Jr. told U.S. District Court Judge Robert L. Wilkins.
“For years I lived off my campaign. I used money that should have been for campaign purposes for personal purposes ... I acknowledge that,” Jackson Jr. solemnly said in court this morning, even breaking down in tears a number of times. Four charges were filed against the former congressman Friday for allegedly spending some $750,000 in campaign funds for personal use. The charges filed include making false statements, mail and wire fraud, and conspiracy.
“Tell everybody at home I’m sorry I let them down, OK,” Jackson Jr. told reporters as he left the courtroom.
Jackson Jr. is facing more than four years in prison and will be sentenced on June 28.
Later today, former Chicago 7th ward alderman Sandi Jackson is also expected to plead guilty in court on a single count of filing false tax returns for the years of 2006 to 2011.
I’m surprised the report is of an “alleged” offender.
is isn't
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