Video footage shows police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown Chicago train station. The mayor says she supports the interim police superintendent's request for prosecutors to be sent directly to the scene -- a possibly unprecedented step.
Chicago’s mayor said that video footage of police shooting and wounding a suspect inside a downtown Chicago train station is “extremely disturbing” and that she supports the interim police superintendent’s request for prosecutors to be sent directly to the scene — an unusual or perhaps unprecedented action in the nation’s third largest city.
Deputy Supt. Barbara West told reporters that the Police Department was conducting concurrent criminal and administrative investigations into the shooting.Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Saturday that although Beck “doesn’t want to rush to judgment,” the cellphone video that has been widely shared on social media and footage from Chicago Transit Authority cameras raise “significant tactical concerns” about the actions of the two officers involved.
The man refuses to be handcuffed, and as he stands, stun guns that the officers apparently used on the man can be seen on the floor. With the man still struggling to get away, the female officer shouted, “Give him your hands,” and a gunshot rang out. As the man fled up the escalator with the officers in pursuit, a second shot was fired out of view of the camera, though it’s unclear which officer fired the shots.Police have not released the name of the man.
“They’re kind of scared about what’s going down, and they’re not getting any information whatsoever,” Schmidt Rodriguez said.
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