I just ran across this on the web this morning. A Chicago sheriff sergeant is off duty and in plain clothes and has stopped to get gas at a Citgo station.
The officer appears to be wearing a jacket with an American flag on it and it may be part of his uniform.
This occurred around 10 pm last night.
He has the pump nozzle in his hand and he is approached by thug #1 who is holding a handgun. Officer drops nozzle and turns slightly to the right. Perhaps to shield his CCW. Thug #2 and thug #3 approach and thug #3 goes to the passenger side door of the vehicle. The officer is obviously having some sort of dialog with thug #1 and is using his left hand to rummage around in his pockets. It looks like he hands thug #1 some bills and loose change and then the officer pulls his gun and shoots thug #1 point blank in the head.
Officer seeks cover of part of the station structure while thug #2 and #3 beat feet. Thug #1 is trying to move and officer covers him with his gun and kicks the gun away. Officer looks like he is going to car to retrieve phone when the video ends.
It looks like only one shot was fired and thug #1 did die.
Anyone think the officer did anything wrong? I am thunderstruck how fast this went down.
Here is a link.
Looking at this quite a few more times, it looks like he was wearing his duty weapon and not a backup and it looks like his jacket was keeping him from printing and it also looks like that was the reason for turning to keep the gun from showing while he gained access to the weapon and it also looks like he fired at least once or twice at thug #2 and #3.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...0,623345.story