From the Secondcitycop blog
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- Karen Winters knows how easily boys are drawn to a life of violence in the Homan Square neighborhood.
But she still can't understand how her 16-year-old nephew ended up shot
to death after allegedly threatening a Chicago police officer with a gun
during a brief foot chase Monday night.
Um, by pointing a gun at the police auntie.
- A woman who said she witnessed the shooting told the Tribune the teen was shot as he was scaling a fence.
"They shot him in the air," she said. "His pants leg got caught on the
fence and he hit the ground. If he hadn't gotten shot, he would have
cleared the fence."
So....you're cheering for hte thug to get away? So he can shoot someone else? Someone you care about maybe?
- The
woman spoke on condition of anonymity, saying she feared backlash from
police. She said she had denied to police that night that she had seen
anything.
We aren't getting this - she lied
to protect.... the police? Or she's lying now to protect the possible
payout by the city? This is part of that "no snitching" thing, right?
Let's put one of the typical ghetto rumors to rest, courtesy of the Tribune of all places:
- An autopsy showed the teen suffered a gunshot wound to the chest.
Which means he was facing the officer when he got shot.