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."
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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?
//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.
trayvon envy
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
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.
Here we go again.
Simple. STOP answernig 911 calls in those neighborhoods. STOP sending patrols into those neighborhoods.
Let them rot in their own sewage.
You left out the part about him just starting to go to church.
Like this?
Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196912/posts
naturally
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.
That cop had some nerve not to sacrifice his life for "baby." /s
OGNTSA.
He’s Black Irish...
It’s time for a national police stand-down day.
Let the citizens work it out for themselves.
Roshad McIntosh
Black Irish?
And convenience store clerks.
Sigh, so many parents are in denial their children are bad seeds.
Too bad community activists pander to that denial.
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