chicago cops shoot unarmed 13-year old in the back... extensive spinal damage

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...sedgntp&cvid=50d5fa42a0344a458fb54f1e2b82e8ff

A 13-year-old boy shot in the back by a Chicago police officer was unarmed and had his arms raised to surrender when he was hit by the bullet, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday, saying the incident illustrates deeply flawed implementation of department policy on the pursuit of suspects.

The bullet severely damaged part of the Black teenager’s spine, possibly rendering him permanently paralyzed by the May 18 late night shooting, the filing in Chicago's U.S. District Court says. Police have said previously the boy was in a car suspected of involvement in a carjacking in a nearby suburb the day before and that he jumped out and started running. He hasn’t been charged.

The excessive force lawsuit says the seventh grader, who had been a passenger, was complying with orders from several officers running behind him through the grounds of a West Side gas station and screaming for him to put up his hands.

The lawsuit says the department has been agonizingly slow in bringing its pursuit policy up to best-practice standards, saying that prior to June 2021 the department had “no pursuit policy at all.”

A scathing 2017 report by the U.S. Department of Justice that accused the Chicago Police Department of “tolerating racially discriminatory conduct” by officers also singled out its pursuit practices for blistering criticism.

 

[donaldd]

You left out the part he was in a stolen car when this happened.

 

[pecksniff]

You left out the part he was in a stolen car when this happened.

No, the quoted text says, "the boy was in a car suspected of involvement in a carjacking."

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Jacked a car and then ran. Im all for keeping cops in check but carjacking gonna get you shot sooner or later. Not a ton of sympathy from me.

 

[butters]

he was suspected of being involved with carjacking, and a passenger in the vehicle. he left the vehicle, unarmed (no arms found at scene in car either), ran, raised his hands up and got shot in the back

again, those showing any sympathy for the actions of the cops are placing the value of human life beneath the value of a car.

there are many other ways to have concluded this chase on foot that were non-lethal. people gotta stop living in the good old dark ages of America where the man with the gun gets to shoot suspected thieves without compunction or culpability. Police had a helicopter in the sky and police all around. stealing a car is not worse than taking a person's life, especially when that person is only 13 years old.

 

[Armyvet23]

Sad that he got shot but.... Let's stop portraying these people as innocent and the cops bad, when you are doing a crime, nothing good really happens.

 

[butters]

Sad that he got shot but.... Let's stop portraying these people as innocent and the cops bad, when you are doing a crime, nothing good really happens.

suspect is the operative word here

he may well be part of the team that did the carjacking
he may have been forced to go along. we don't know.

stealing a car doesn't mean it's ok to shoot the boy in the back as he tries to flee. Even the other law enforcement voices were disgusted by how this was handled.

 

[butters]

rittenhouse was a suspect in the murder of civilians, but he got a pat on the back and walked away from the scene and then a trial

by the standards being applied by some here, he should have been shot on sight by any cop in the vicinity

 

[AlexBailey]

Sad that he got shot but.... Let's stop portraying these people as innocent and the cops bad, when you are doing a crime, nothing good really happens.

Part of the point is that being "suspected" of a crime should not be a reason to be shot. I got pulled over and removed from my white Ford Ranger at gunpoint once because it matched the description of someone fleeing from an armed robbery.

A teen in a nearby town was shot in the back and killed by police for carrying an air-soft rifle. He didn't comply with their demands because he was listening to heavy metal and didn't hear them.

 

[Armyvet23]

suspect is the operative word here

he may well be part of the team that did the carjacking
he may have been forced to go along. we don't know.

stealing a car doesn't mean it's ok to shoot the boy in the back as he tries to flee. Even the other law enforcement voices were disgusted by how this was handled.

I agree, He shouldn't have been shot...

rittenhouse was a suspect in the murder of civilians, but he got a pat on the back and walked away from the scene and then a trial

by the standards being applied by some here, he should have been shot on sight by any cop in the vicinity

Rittenhouse wasn't doing anything illegal is my understanding. An armed victim attacked him and was shot in self defense.

 

[Wrong Element]

They shoot unarmed teenagers because they're in fear for their lives. They refused to engage the mass murderer in Uvalde because they feared for their lives.

 

[AlexBailey]

They shoot unarmed teenagers because they're in fear for their lives. They refused to engage the mass murderer in Uvalde because they feared for their lives.

Most restrictive gun control measures were proposed by and enacted in support of law enforcement. Back the blue!

 

[Philthy_Phil]

You left out the part he was in a stolen car when this happened.

So due process is out the window?

Fucking idiot.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Sad that he got shot but.... Let's stop portraying these people as innocent and the cops bad, when you are doing a crime, nothing good really happens.

So are you in favor of "summary justice" from law enforcement?

 

[pecksniff]

Jacked a car and then ran. Im all for keeping cops in check but carjacking gonna get you shot sooner or later. Not a ton of sympathy from me.

Carjacking is only a form of theft, it should not be a shooting matter.

 

[PaxNurgle]

I think the bottom line is...we need more solid FACTS before anyone can jump to conclusions on whether or not this shooting was justified or not. I am not going to make any judgement here, one way or other- I wasn't there; I'm not from Chicago.

 

[butters]

Police have said previously the boy was in a car suspected of involvement in a carjacking in a nearby suburb the day before and that he jumped out and started running. He hasn’t been charged

so a kid traveling as a passenger, in a car 'suspected' of being involved in a carjacking the day before, gets out and runs from cops. no arms. hands up when cops tell him to. there is NO reason from these 'facts' put out by the police force for him to have been shot at by cops. nil. zilch. nada.