Two (apparently rookie) Chicago cops tried to arrest a fleeing felon (apparently also a rookie).
Looks like the pole was the only competent one there, stopping the bad guy when he ran headlong into it. Certainly, it was more effective than anyone's (allegedly) aimed gunfire!
Go read the comments about the video on YouTube. Some of them are hysterical.
(Oh - and someone please get those cops some remedial firearms training. They desperately need it!)
Peter
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Keystone Cops. Sadly not exactly physically fit either.
In Chicago, if the cops are shooting AT you, that is probably the safest place to be. Bystanders, not so much.
I'm not being snarky either, this is reality.
"Looks like the pole was the only competent one there, stopping the bad guy when he ran headlong into it."
Nope. The guy who ran right into it was one the cops (the other cop tripped over another pole on the ground).
The suspect tripped going around the pole.
Vert the ferk???
This is what happens when you training consists of social bullscat rather than actual police work. These two twits are more social worker than law enforcement officer. And this is what we'll see in NYfC if the International Socialist gets the mayoral reigns.
Chicago has lowered their entry standards for the Police Academy twice, including accepting misdemeanor drug, DV, and gang convictions, and still can't find enough recruits to make up for those retiring annually, never mind the 3,000 cops they are already short of.
John in Indy
I used to work in NYC. Maybe 15 or so years ago there were reports on the NYC news stations website of a mass shooting on 34th street. As thing unfolded we learned that:
Suspect walked up to victim #1 and shot him in the head for fooling around with his wife.
Suspect did this in sght of two NYC police officers.
Said officers threw down and mag dumped at suspect, leaving him completely unharmed but hitting multiple innocent bystanders.
Another incident, related to me by a NYC Transit cop before they were merged into the NYPD (NYC used to have three police departments, Transit for the subways, Housing for the projects, abnd NYPD for everything else). The transit police were evaluating the 9mm as a replacement for the .38, so a number of officers were carrying them on a trial basis. Two such officers drew on a threat in a subway station, fired multiple rounds which hit the concrete floor, fragmented, and peppered the suspects jeans with bullet fragments. The conclusion was that the 9mm was unsuitable because it wouldn't penetrate denim. Ummm, maybe of you got them there on the fly?
Mark D
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