Police Report in Killing of Black Security Guard Is Criticized as Rushed

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Police Report in Killing of Black Security Guard Is Criticized as Rushed
The Illinois State Police took steps on Tuesday to defend the actions of a suburban Chicago police officer who killed an armed security guard on Sunday, claiming that the guard was not wearing a uniform and ignored verbal commands to drop his weapon. But witnesses have contradicted that account, and it was not clear how the State Police reached its conclusions.

The findings by the state’s Public Integrity Task Force, the lead agency in the case, were based on a preliminary investigation into the killing of the guard, Jemel Roberson, 26, who was responding to a shooting at a bar. But a lawyer for his family disputed the state’s account and criticized the agency for rushing to judgment just days after the deadly encounter.

“We are three days into this and they are saying preliminary that it was a good shoot?” the lawyer, Greg Kulis, said in an interview on Wednesday. “They traditionally take nine months or longer.”

The killing of Mr. Roberson has ignited protests and demands for justice, just a month after a Chicago police officer was found guilty of second-degree murder in the high-profile killing of Laquan McDonald, a black teenager who was shot 16 times by an officer in 2014. Protesters have pointed out that Mr. Roberson, who was black, was killed even though he was a “good guy with a gun,” the type of person put forth by the National Rifle Association and President Trump as a solution to mass shootings.





Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/u...-roberson.html


Like I've said before, I personally know this area and it's not surprising ar all.



I give our local racist 3 to 4 minutes ........ tops

[Fentoine Lum]

America made peace long ago with this stuff, just as we did with mass shootings. The militarized police have not yet had to begin murdering white males as they are taking care of themselves via suicide and opioids.

[reagansghost]

America made peace long ago with this stuff, just as we did with mass shootings. The militarized police have not yet had to begin murdering white males as they are taking care of themselves via suicide and opioids.

quit bashing Amerika

[Tkaffen]

Don’t know all the facts yet.
One question I have is what is a security guard that is not on duty in a bar carrying a gun.

[Fentoine Lum]

Don’t know all the facts yet.
One question I have is what is a security guard that is not on duty in a bar carrying a gun.

SOS, white guy with gun, scared of black folks, black folks die even when unarmed and doing nothing. Now the pigs are shooting the good guys with guns.

[TTQ64]

Don’t know all the facts yet.
One question I have is what is a security guard that is not on duty in a bar carrying a gun.

Stop justifying murder......he was on duty WEARING HIS SECURITY UNIFORM at the bar carrying a gun.

[Fentoine Lum]

Stop justifying murder......he was on duty WEARING HIS SECURITY UNIFORM at the bar carrying a gun.

Many americans have no problem with the power of the state to gun down unarmed citizens with impunity in the streets, and now in their own homes or on the job.

Fweedumb.

[Irish Exit]

The police report is too rushed but the lawyer having filed a lawsuit before the body was cold wasn't huh?

[Tkaffen]

You are an idiot
Were did you read it was a racial motivated shooting
The only pig is you.
There is more black folks getting killed by other blacks

[Tkaffen]

Didn’t you read the original post that stated “was not wearing a uniform and ignored verbal commands “.
You are like every other stupid person who makes judgements without all the facts. Are you going to start the street mobs.

[Fentoine Lum]

The police report is too rushed but the lawyer having filed a lawsuit before the body was cold wasn't huh?

Always a rationale, cops get to murder at the discretion of the state in america.

[Fentoine Lum]

Didn’t you read the original post that stated “was not wearing a uniform and ignored verbal commands “.
You are like every other stupid person who makes judgements without all the facts. Are you going to start the street mobs.

Over 500 hundred years, this pattern.

Cops get to murder at the discretion of the state in america.

[Irish Exit]

Always a rationale, cops get to murder at the discretion of the state in america.

Then don't ever call them. Problem solved.