As the Chicago Tribune reported, on March 20th, two tactical police officers from the Chicago PD were in the process of arresting a suspected drug dealer on the city’s west side. After securing the suspect and confiscating a bundle of drugs as evidence, placing them in the patrol car,Sound pretty routine. Spot drug dealer, arrest drug dealer. Confiscate evidence. Then, the story turns.
the officers were surrounded by a group of men who began to threaten them. At least one claimed to be armed and demanded the suspect be released or he would shoot the cops. Someone in the mob stole the drugs from the patrol car and fled, with one officer giving pursuit. The threatened violence surrounding the patrol car escalated and the cops wound up releasing the suspect and leaving the scene.What? They released the suspect to the mob?
I understand that the cops were in a bad situation, with threatened violence before an ostensibly armed mob, but you never release a suspect to a mob, even at threat of violence. That should never happen. It's unheard of, it's unspeakable.
There is a local reporter covering the story, and he tries to speak truth to power.
If the cops had fired their weapons, news media would have been all over them, metaphorically skinning them alive. Politicians would have demanded their heads. Democratic presidential candidates, and the two campaigning for mayor, would have held repeated news conferences.
But this? Nothing.Chicago needs to get behind the police department, and decide to take back the streets. Evidently, right now the gangs own the streets to the point where the police are ineffective, and the politicians ad good people in the neighborhoods are okay with this arrangement.
I'm not going to judge he two officers. I'm sure that they did what they thought they had to do, but this incident speaks volumes about the culture that the Chicago PD is operating in. In this day and era of constant video, I'm sure that someone, perhaps the officers themselves have video evidence from this event, and I hope that indictments are swift and punishment severe. Chicago needs to get control back.
4 comments:
Even if they had video, you are making the very big assumption that the Fake News Media (FNM)wouldn't creatively "edit" the video to disseminate the narrative the left wants to get out. And as has been repeatedly documented over the years, even when the real video gets out, it doesn't have enough force to overcome the fake "edited" video released by the FNM.
That's why VoxDay says to never accept interviews with the FNM as they will edit your words to say what they want you to, rather than what you said. I saw this with a Letter to the Editor mailed to the local newspaper. The creative use of ellipsis and the letter said the opposite of what was written. In the current day, with Travon Martin, Ferguson, etc., I believe that what is reported and what happened only bear passing resemblance to each other.
Well it WAS Chicago don't yeah know....
Steve
Depending on the threat level, it may have been the only choice if backup was not immediately available.
Better to let a dealer go and "live to fight another day", ie, come back later with overwhelming force, than get shot today.
Nothings going to happen. Se Jussie Smollett. Nothing.. Even if the two cops had ben found later dead in the street. Chicago has decided to surrender to the low-life and thugs.
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