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January 7, 2012, 12:58 PM | #26 | |||
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Two charged with Chicago officer's murder
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,2214257.story
I don't think we'll know exactly what happened until the video is released to the public, but the story says Quote:
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Here is a seperate report that says that Officer Lewis was not the intended target of the attack, but Quote:
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news...olice-20120106 So if he fired his weapon it must have been while the robber was "walking" up to the counter? Last edited by C0untZer0; January 7, 2012 at 01:14 PM. |
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January 8, 2012, 04:23 PM | #27 |
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It would be incredibly foolish to walk into a business masked. I don't care if you're in Nome, Alaska. I'm going to react badly if I'm in there when someone does that. I hope that most other CCW holders would too. Not as in gun them down on the spot, but I might draw my weapon, almost certainly if it's more than one person. There are some things you just don't do, and that's one.
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Nome Alaska? Let's see, Monday's weather has a high of -20 F going to a low of -26 F with windchills of -24 to -35. Exposed skin may freeze literally in minutes at those temps and chills. People are not apt to spend much time outside to uncover their faces before entering businesses. Quote:
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January 9, 2012, 12:11 AM | #29 |
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I thought they'd release the video by now. Maybe they're not because of the family or because it might prejudice the case - I don't know.
But there's so much we don't know, like how the store was setup, iis the door visible from where the officer was standing, was the officer even facing or looking at the door? There are two different verbal accounts now, One account says masked men entered the store, turned and opened fire on Lewis. Another account says the gunman walked up to Lewis and shot him. |
January 9, 2012, 05:09 AM | #30 |
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Double Naught Spy; Nome, Alaska was simply a figure of speech. My point is, I can never recall seeing anyone walk into a store with a mask on. Not here in Tennessee, not on the High Plains, not in New England, and I've travelled them all extensively in winter. So, in my not inconsiderable experience, that would be highly unusual behavior. And before you misunderstand, I mean walking in and not pulling it down or off. Can you really imagine someone walking into the local bank with a ski mask on? The kind of reaction that would cause? Think about it.
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January 9, 2012, 07:41 AM | #31 |
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Home invasion robbery by two masked men (hoodie and bandanna--same effect as ski-mask) in broad daylight, one armed, just this weekend in Chattanooga.
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January 13, 2012, 01:39 AM | #32 | |
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Here are more details on the incident - and it doesn't appear to be the way Police Superintendent McCarthy or the news media described initially:
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...k-foods-dillon Quote:
I think a police officer responds to this different than I would in that maybe it's second nature for a police officer to shout "Police!" I don't know if he did that simultaneously while drawing or it happened sequentially, but I'm guessing that when he identified himself he drew fire. |
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January 13, 2012, 08:43 AM | #33 |
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Notice at the end of the article it says the officer's weapon is missing. I believe gangs make deliberate efforts to snatch police equipment when they can. A little girl in my neighborhood approached me the other day with a 2-way radio she said she saw somebody ditch in a trashcan--it appeared to be police equipment, it had an "officer 6" tag on it and appeared to have 911 bands programmed into it and was tuned into one of the frequencies. (I advised her to turn it in to the development authorities, which she did since she didn't seem to quite trust me).
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January 13, 2012, 12:00 PM | #34 |
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So the OP was misleading and attempted to draw some conclusion not based on the facts.
Can we avoid that in the future?
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