Robbing the wrong guy
Robert sends us a link to an NBC story on our Facebook page about three rambunctious youngsters in Chicago who attempted to rob an off-duty cop at a gas pump;
Police say three males tried to rob the sergeant as he was pumping gas at a Citgo in the 700 block of East 103rd Street shortly before 10 p.m., according to Chicago police and Cook County Sheriff’s spokesman Ben Breit.
The three demanded the sergeant’s wallet, which he gave to them. One of the men then pulled out a handgun and aimed it straight at the sergeant, according to Chicago police. The sergeant pulled out his own gun and shot the male in the head, killing him.
The two other males ran off and were not in custody early Tuesday, police said.
Of course, it was in Chicago, so the youngsters were pretty certain that their victim was unarmed. I don’t know how those children got their gun, but they must have successfully jumped through the hoops Chicago requires for gun owners, because everyone knows that criminals go through the same process as legitimate gun owners to get their guns, right? So this victim was lucky to be a cop when he needed a gun to save his life, what about the rest of the potential victims at the pumps in Chicago?
Category: Crime
“what about the rest of the potential victims at the pumps in Chicago”
Jonn, you know that the police are highly trained, compared to us “civilians”, and the cops have extraordinary powers of discipline in order not to just start blasting away as the mood strikes them! We can’t be trusted to exercise restraint and good judgement. That’s why we have the police; to protect us from the bad guys.
Also; they cut the video before we got to see the bad guy take the dirt nap!!!
Yeah, the ‘friends’ of the dumbass kid (Mackey) who got shot are trying to find some way to ‘defend’ him (‘he shouldn’t have did what he did’, etc.), but other people are defending the cop. People may object to all the surveillance cameras as intrusive, but this kind of shuts off that argument.
I’m waiting for ‘MOM’ to show up weeping on camera, defending her useless piece-of-trash offspring, along with a bunch of other relatives.
Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to engage cops of various jurisdictions and types of Law enforcement. I ask, usually in some roundabout way, why they should be allowed to have guns. In nearly every single instance, they say, in one way or another, that it is so that they are safer while they do their job. Never have I heard one say: “So that I can gather the innocent civilians behind me while I protect them.” Or anything even close to that. The real cop, the good cop, knows that to dial 911 for a cop is for nothing more than to report a crime and get the paperwork started. Fire and Ambulance calls are a bit different.
The saddest thing about this whole story is that Mackey will never be eligible to vote, regardless of what Holder might say/do.
I love a happy ending…
@5: That’s not true. He’s from Chicago, so he’ll be voting in the mid-terms this year.
Here is the opposite of that story
Woman killed in Woodlawn gas station shooting near Marquette, Stony Island
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local/chicago_news&id=9326628
Meantime, back in DC, police prevent a brutal killing by seizing qty. 1 inop shotgun shell. http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/02/11/dc-man-set-hearing-after-cops-raid-turned-one-shotgun-shell
@7 you’re right… forgot about the way Chicago works…
The young robber didn’t use his head … ah … well he used his head … ah … in the wrong way … ah … as a bullet catcher!
@5, he’s a DEAD Chicagoan now, which means that some homeless critter, illegal alien, or convicted felon will vote FOR HIM as many times as possible in as many precincts as possible in each and every election!
Was he Obama’s son, if he had one, Travon?
@12 Naw, they don’t get to play the race card on this one. It was on the south side in the Pullman neighborhood.
Almost looks like Englewood’s contents are spilling over the sides into other areas, now that gun control in Chicago has gotten so strict.
I’d really like to see mayor rahmbo choke on some of his own crap one of these days. My old neighborhood (Rogers Park) has seen an uptick in violent crime since that dipstick was elected. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear machine politics are back at work.
Well then! Three mo Sons of Obama won’t be getting their Obama Department of Wealth Redistribution (ODoWR) certificate. I be waiting for mama to make a ‘peeunce on TV! Screaming n crying n carrying on how her precious chilrun’s gonna be missin’ dey big brudda man. She’ll be like “My boy! My boy! He, he, he did’t knaw what he was doin. Just when ya kno he, he he wuz jus fixing to be gittin’ his life togetha!”
Thanks to the link to another article outta Chi-town, we gots baby mama drama. Lets if baby daddy be all like, “Man! Who who who don’ dis?”. “Kaw who I am? Big Dawg! This here be baby mama. How’m aye gonna take care of her lil baby gurl?” “I toll da bitch, doncha be goin out wif dem peeps, man. Dey bad nuwz”.
Video cut off too soon
Better video here: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/11/a-robber-pointed-a-gun-at-his-gut-he-was-surrounded-by-criminals-this-astonishing-video-reveals-how-the-off-duty-sergeant-survived/
An even better video on youtube has been removed, because you know, Youtube making sure criminal scum aren’t cyber bullied.
I hope that cop gets a bonus this year.
@16 jerry920 I am with man! I wanted to see the money, melon shot! I guess his sister will get his Obama phone now. Mom will say he was troubled but trying to change his life and “why dat cop hafa shot em in du ead. He cudda shot em in da leg ur sumptin. why my baby dead now huh, why my baby dead now!”
@14 & 15, Streets, you speak ghetto. Nicely done. Just one minor correction, mama be sayin’, my boy just be gettin’ his life turned round, doncha know. As she does a DFO(done fell out).
If only there was a way for the mere Citizens of Chicago to Constitutionally defend themselves from criminals…..
LOL!
I hate it when they cut to commercial at the best part!
These three mopes were so obviously armatures at the stickup game. Pathetic. They put the victim at the apex of the triangle rather than along the base or in the center of one. Bad trade craft. He could have popped all three if he wanted to. It would have taken less than a second to fire twice more. If their hands weren’t showing they would all be dead. And justified in my opinion.