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Officer Didn't Shoot Attacker Because She Feared Backlash, Top Cop Says
By Kelly Bauer and Ted Cox
October 6, 2016 11:55 a.m.
DNAInfo Chicago
CHICAGO — As her face was being smashed into the pavement by a suspect Wednesday, a Chicago Police officer thought about using her gun to stop the man. Instead she was knocked out. She had been too worried about what people would think if she had used her weapon, she said.
The attack happened Wednesday. Officers on patrol were responding to a car crash in Austin when a man who had been in the crash attacked them, police said. Three officers were injured, one of them seriously, and they were taken to area hospitals for treatment.
The officer who was seriously injured, a 43-year-old woman and 17-year veteran of the department, was still hospitalized Thursday morning, according to a Chicago Police news release.
The man had punched her and "repeatedly smashed her face into the pavement" until she was knocked out, police said. She suffered head trauma and multiple cuts to her face and head.
Another officer used Mace and a stun gun on the man and eventually placed him into custody, police said.
Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, speaking at an awards ceremony for the Police and Fire departments, said the officer thought she was going to die and thought she should have shot the man, but she did not because she was worried about scrutiny, according to tweets from Fran Spielman, a reporter for the Sun-Times.
The incident highlights the need to "change the narrative," Johnson said, according to Spielman.
Johnson says the female cop said she thought she was going to die and knew should have shot the offender, but didn't want to risk scrutiny.
— Fran Spielman (@fspielman) October 6, 2016
Translation: “Scrutiny” means getting railroaded.
Johnson says Wednesday's incident is further proof of the need to "change the narrative."
— Fran Spielman (@fspielman) October 6, 2016
3 comments:
Either way...the cops lose now.
There will be no report of this on Negro Nightly News or Clinton News Network.This is the preferred outcome,by those outlets,of confrontations between cops and negroes.I know this won't be reported because a few whites might hear about it and change to Trump.Of course one case won't change the election outcome--only a maestro performance on Sunday will do that.
Meanwhile,Clinton jumps 10 ahead in Pennsylvania and Michigan--just like that.No pressure on Trump to be charming,witty,presidential,prosecutorial and reflexively quick to deflect Clinton's attacks.No pressure at all.
--GR Anonymous
"Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson, speaking at an awards ceremony for the Police and Fire departments, said the officer thought she was going to die and thought she should have shot the man,"
Smashing someones head into the pavement or concrete is the use of lethal force. The woman wold have been justified to shoot the miscreant. But then Chief Johnson would have probably fired her on the spot.
"Smashing someones head into the pavement or concrete is the use of lethal force."
As it was with Treyvons and what he did to Zimmerman.
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