Saturday Feel Good Stories
Shirtless off-duty Chicago cop exchanges gunfire with armed robbery suspect
CHICAGO (Fox 32 News) – New video released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability shows an off-duty Chicago officer engaging in a brief shootout with an armed robbery suspect on the Far South Side.
On June 9 around 8 a.m., a woman was walking to her car in the 10700 block of South Morgan Street when a white SUV pulled alongside her and someone inside told her to “give us whatever you have,” police said.
The woman can be heard on video yelling “F*** you” to whoever is inside the white SUV before shots ring out.
Police say the officer fired one shot and another shot was fired from inside the white SUV, but that nobody was hit by the gunfire.
No arrests have been made.
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South Fulton homeowner shoots, kills alleged intruder
By Chelsea Prince and John Spink
A homeowner shot and killed a man he discovered inside his South Fulton home Friday morning, police said.The man woke up to the sound of glass breaking and his dog barking around 2:30 a.m. He grabbed his gun and walked toward the sounds to investigate, according to South Fulton police spokesman Lt. Derrick Rogers.
“As he approached the area, he encountered a subject in his home,” Rogers said from the scene. “Gunshots rang out between the homeowner and the subject. At this time, the subject is deceased on scene.”
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Tulsa Police: Church Member Shoots Suspected Copper Thief
By: Reagan Ledbetter
TULSA, Oklahoma – Tulsa Police say a church member shot a suspected burglar at the Church of Christ near Pine and Sheridan. Officers say this church has been burglarized several times for copper in the past two weeks.Police were called out for a possible burglary overnight Thursday, but didn’t find anything at the time.
Two church members stayed overnight to keep an eye on the church and put up security cameras, according to TPD. Sometime around 4 a.m. Thursday morning, the church members told officers heard someone on the roof.
The church members came outside to confront the man and then shots were fired.
Police say the suspected burglar was shot in stomach. They say he was talking to police and taken to the hospital.
Timothy Luster is the minister at Church of Christ, and he says the thieves have destroyed all their air conditioning units to get the copper. Now they don’t have any air conditioning inside the church.
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The article in its entirity may be viewed here: News On 6
Well well, Delta Whiskies and Whiskettes. One each DRT, inconvenienced, and in the wind. The weekend is just starting.
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms…” – Richard Henry Lee, 1788, Member of the First U.S. Senate.
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And THERE is a trifecta.
Well done, AW1Ed.
Wonder if any jurisdiction has a Police Office of Civilian Accountability?
Furry four legged burglar alarm. Best kind to have. “…subject deceased on the scene.” Also the best kind to have.
Stealing from a church. Were they hitting up orphanages too? Getting gut shot gotta hurt and a real good chance of infections. Good, we can only hope it does.
Used to it was pretty much understood/a law that all the people (able bodied men) (sic), not only possessed a weapon, but knew how to use it, AND report on a regular basis for Militia Drill. Nancy Hart, Molly (Pitcher), and later The Nancy Harts (a female militia company) showed that the girls could fight too. Cump Sherman is alluded to have stated that the only way to truly defeat Georgia would be to take out the women folk.
I read the review on the Hell&Krap gun pr0n. Had to go turn to the book of The Saintly One, you know the chapter, you know the verse.