Chicago pigs ? again.. 2 People Killed After Officers Respond To Domestic Disturbance...
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? up mane, what is the cops protocol for shooting because the military cant even shoot unless fired on
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Sick of these cops man. They stay pussified
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@obnoxiouslyfresh whatchu know about this?
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? up mane, what is the cops protocol for shooting because the military cant even shoot unless fired on
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Brother_Five wrote: »They saying she was hit accidentally...
Sheesh
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/27/us/chicago-police-shooting/Chicago: Woman 'accidentally' shot and killed by officer, police say
(CNN)Chicago police shot two people to death, including a 55-year-old woman they said was "accidentally struck and tragically killed."
The woman, Bettie Jones, and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were both killed after police responded to a domestic disturbance call early Saturday morning.
"Upon arrival, officers were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer's weapon which fatally wounded two individuals," Chicago police said in a statement.
"The 55 year old female victim was accidentally struck and tragically killed. The department extends it's deepest condolences to the victim's family and friends."
The officer will be on administrative duty for 30 days while an independent police review authority investigates, Chicago police said.
Police did not say what, if anything, Jones and LeGrier had to do with the reported disturbance.
But LeGrier's family said the Northern Illinois University student suffered from a mental illness and threatened his father with an aluminum bat, CNN affiliate WLS reported.
The teen's father called police and then called his downstairs neighbor, Jones, to open the door when officers arrived, WLS said.
When police came, LeGrier was charging down the stairs still carrying the bat, the affiliate reported. Police opened fire, and both LeGrier and Jones were shot.
"An innocent lady got shot as well because the police were trigger happy," LeGrier's mother, Janet Cooksey, told WLS. "I went to the hospital. My son has seven bullet holes in him."
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is on vacation in Cuba, WLS said, but his office released a statement after the shooting.
"Anytime an officer uses force the public deserves answers, and regardless of the circumstances, we all grieve anytime there is a loss of life in our city," the statement read.
"All evidence will be shared with the Cook County State's Attorney's Office for additional review in the days ahead."
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Damn this ? is beyond depressing. These condescending m'? said "the chicago PD offers our deepest condolences".
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They Purposely shot yet "Accidentally" shot the wrong person?
I suppose that word will absolve the pigs of any wrongdoing... No criminal charges, just a fat settlement check for the family, right? -
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1207663/father-19-year-old-killed-chicago-police-officer-knew-messedFather of 19-year-old killed by Chicago Police: Officer knew 'he had messed up'
The father of a 19-year-old man shot fatally by a Chicago Police officer Saturday morning said the cop knew he “messed up” after firing at the man and a 55-year-old neighbor who also was killed on the West Side.
Antonio LeGrier told the Chicago Sun-Times he saw the white or Hispanic officer standing on the grass 30 feet from the bodies after he heard the gunshots in the 4700 block of West Erie Street.
“F—, no, no, no. I thought he was lunging at me with the [baseball] bat,” LeGrier said the officer yelled following the shooting that claimed the lives of college student Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie R. Jones.
“In my opinion, he knew he had messed up. It was senseless,” Antonio LeGrier, 47, said of the dark-haired officer who had fired.
“He knew he had shot blindly, recklessly into the doorway and now two people are dead because of it.”
Coming barely a month after a white officer was charged with murdering 17-year-old Laquan McDonald last year, Saturday morning’s shooting that killed two African-Americans increased the pressure already on the police and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
After learning of the double fatality, and the shooting and wounding of another man later in the day by Chicago Police, Emanuel issued a statement:
“Anytime an officer uses force the public deserves answers, and regardless of the circumstances, we all grieve anytime there is a loss of life in our city. With that in mind, I have been informed that the Independent Police Review Authority has opened investigations into each shooting, and that all evidence will be shared with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office for additional review in the days ahead.”
CPD issued a statement Saturday saying officers involved in the shooting — the statement did not give a precise number — “will be placed on routine administrative duties for a period of 30 days.” It noted the policy, implemented by interim Supt. John Escalante, will be the new protocol for all police-involved shootings.
That statement also extended condolences for the shooting of Jones and pledged the department’s full cooperation with the investigation by the Independent Police Review Authority.
Responding officers, according to the statement, “were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer’s weapon which fatally wounded two individuals. The 55 year old female victim was accidentally struck and tragically killed. The department extends it’s deepest condolences to the victim’s family and friends.”
The elder LeGrier said his son was home for the holiday break from Northern Illinois University, where he majored in electrical engineering technology.
He had graduated last year from Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy with a grade-point average above 3.0 and was listed as part of a team of students who ran the 2013 Chicago Marathon to raise money for clean drinking water for African children.
LeGrier’s father said his son was a “whiz kid” who had some emotional problems after spending most of his childhood in foster care. This past Thanksgiving, Antonio LeGrier said he had his son admitted to Weiss Memorial Hospital, where he was prescribed some medication to deal with his issues.
The younger LeGrier, who had been in foster care since he was four years old, was brought Friday morning by his mother to the building on Erie that his father owns, Antonio LeGrier said. The father said he invited his son to a family holiday gathering, but he chose to stay in the second-floor unit where his father lives.
Quintonio LeGrier’s mother, Janet Cooksey, said she was angry with police and wanted a personal apology from the mayor.
“When is this going to stop?” said Cooksey, who last saw her son on Friday. “My son wasn’t a thug on the street or a violent person.”
Because of psychological issues, Cooksey said he could become “hyper” and “a little loud” at times.
LeGrier had a run-in with a campus police officer earlier this year in DeKalb, according to Cooksey and Lauryn White, a friend of LeGrier’s from college.
In March, the Northern Star student newspaper reported the NIU police charged him with “obstructing a peace officer” in DeKalb. Cooksey said she thought the case had been dropped.
Campus police said they could not access records from the case Saturday.
White said Quintonio’s arrest in DeKalb earlier this year was “a misunderstanding” with an officer.
“He was a very smart person, very determined,” White said. “He enjoyed math.”
When Antonio LeGrier returned to his West Garfield Park apartment early Saturday, he said he noticed his son appeared to be “a little agitated.”
Then at 4:15 a.m. Saturday, the older LeGrier heard a loud banging on his locked bedroom door and his son said, “You’re not going to scare me.”
Antonio LeGrier said his son tried to bust the door open, but he kept him from breaking it down and called for police.
Soon, there was silence.
Antonio LeGrier said he then called Jones, who lived a floor below. He said he warned her, “My son is a little irate. Do not open the door unless the police arrive.”
Antonio LeGrier said Jones told him she saw his son outside with a baseball bat.
When police arrived, Antonio LeGrier said he heard Bettie R. Jones yell, “Whoa, Whoa, Whoa!”
Antonio LeGrier had reached the third step, as he made his way down from the second floor, when he heard the gunshots.
“I identified myself as the father and I held my hands out,” Antonio LeGrier said.
He said he then saw his son and Jones lying in the foyer. Antonio LeGrier said Quintonio LeGrier was still alive but Jones was not moving.
“My son had some emotional problems. Did it warrant him getting shot and killed? I don’t believe it,” Antonio LeGrier said.
Antonio LeGrier said he has since spoken with police and the Independent Police Review Authority — as well as two civil-right lawyers. Police had told him that his son was shot seven times and had called 911 before he did.
Officers responded to a call of a domestic disturbance, according to a statement from the Chicago Police Office of News Affairs.
“Upon arrival, officers were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer’s weapon, fatally wounding two individuals,” the statement read.
Jones was pronounced dead at Loretto Hospital at 4:51 a.m., the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said. LeGrier was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 5:14 am.
Neighbors said Jones was shot in the neck soon after she opened the door for police.
Jones’ daughter Latisha Jones said she woke up when she heard three gunshots. She walked to the front door and saw her mother bleeding on the ground, she said.
“She wasn’t saying anything,” Latisha Jones said, who added that she could feel her mother breathing before she was taken away by paramedics.
Latisha Jones said that police shot her mother from outside the home after she opened the door.
Hours after the shooting, blood remained splattered in the small foyer of the two-flat building, on Jones’ front door and five feet into the first-floor unit she rented from Antonio LeGrier.
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Family members said Bettie Jones was born in Mississippi, was one of seven children and had five of her own. Her brother Melvin Jones said she was “a hard worker and a sweet soul” who worked on the assembly line at Alpha Baking on the West Side.
Cousin Evelyn Glover-Jennings said she grew up with Jones and was furious with the police and the mayor. She said Emanuel means “? is with us” but the mayor is a “lying devil.”
“I want my cousin’s death avenged,” Glover-Jennings yelled on the front steps of the building. “Emanuel, call your boys. Chicago Police belong to you.”
As other family members nodded, she said, “Don’t open the door when the Chicago Police come. Don’t even call. They come to ? . Serve and protect? They should take that off their car and put, ‘We ? .’ Go to Iraq and fight. Serve in war, instead of this marshal law.”
Antonio LeGrier and Glover-Jennings noted that some other homes on the blocks have security cameras that might have recorded the shooting.
Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin, a Democrat whose district includes the site of Saturday’s incident, demanded “answers.”
“The fatal shooting of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones by police officers in my district this morning is one more example of a broken system — a system that will take more than mayoral platitudes and task forces to fix,” Boykin said in a statement.
“At this point, we are confronted with a series of unanswered and deeply troubling questions. Why did the officers on the scene need to resort to the use of their firearms to subdue a young man with a bat? Why weren’t the officers equipped with Tasers so that Quintonio could be subdued without lethal force?
“How, during an officer response, did a 55-year-old mother of five come to be struck dead by bullets?”
After two officers walked from the house and left in a police car, the Rev. Marshall Hatch of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church said one of the officers yawned, which he took to show their “sense of contempt” for the dead and their survivors. Hatch said one of Jones’ 19-year-old twin daughters was baptized at his church a couple months ago.
“I don’t understand what could be going on in the officer’s head in this climate,” Hatch said. “I’m incredulous — something like this right in the middle of a crisis of confidence?”
Hatch, who said he is organizing a prayer vigil at 2 p.m. Sunday at the site of Saturday’s shooting, said he had expected police to be more careful after the furor caused by the McDonald case. Since last month’s release of a police dashcam video in that case, Emanuel has fired top cop Garry McCarthy and the U.S. Justice Department has launched a civil-rights investigation into the police department.
“They’re idiots,” Hatch said of the police. “All the spotlight on them and they shoot up this place? These people are out of control.”
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They Purposely shot yet "Accidentally" shot the wrong person?
I suppose that word will absolve the pigs if any wrongdoing... No criminal charges, just a fat settlement check for the family, right?
A settlement that the tax payers have to cover at that
Wont affect the police force whatsoever -
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@obnoxiouslyfresh whatchu know about this?
I know about as much as you do, my dear. But tune into the live press conference from the family...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-live-stream-wgn-html-htmlstory.html -
Live press conference everybody...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-live-stream-wgn-html-htmlstory.html -
i would love to hear how white folk spin this one..
let me guess.
everyone would be ok if the kid didnt have a bat...they blame everyone but the police until its them it affects -
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stringer bell wrote: »
At this point saying they "shoot first and ask questions later" is giving them too much benefit.
They shoot first and then just cover their tracks for shooting. No questions..that would imply they're seeking answers. They don't want answers they just want to get off by any means -
Man this ? makes my soul burn. These pigs have a license to ? from their corrupt mayor, and are backed up by pussyfied crackers who are scared shitless of black people.
Why do we keep calling state-sanctioned members of an occupying force to settle our conflicts?
RIP to the victims, and ? the police for eternity. -
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stringer bell wrote: »
Because black. -
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/latest-chicago-mayor-issues-police-shooting-statement-35961832About 100 neighbors, community activists and others gathered outside the Chicago home where a 55-year-old woman and 19-year-old man were fatally shot by police.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Rep. Danny Davis were among those there Sunday afternoon. Several people held signs. One read: "Stop Killing Us."
At one point, several in the crowd started chanting, "This is not an accident!"
Some put candles on the porch of the home. Quintonio LeGrier's mother, Janet Cooksey, placed flowers on the railing.
LeGrier and Bettie Jones were shot as officers responded to a domestic disturbance call early Saturday. Police say Jones was shot accidentally.
The shootings came amid scrutiny of police. The Chicago Police Department is under a federal civil rights investigation that will look into patterns of racial disparity in the use of force.
Both LeGrier and Jones were black -
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Calling the police nowadays is basically a death sentence for whoever out here
shame the lady caught a stray bullet in the neck too -
When I first saw the picture of the lady it kinda ? me up because she looks a lot like my mom.
I guess communities need to start funding, create, and call their own police and forgo the official justice system.
Relying on the current one doesn't work. Do something else.
If not it's only going to get worse (or at best stay as is) because radical reform doesn't appear to be on the table.
? can't be stuck on stupid forever now.
