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FIVE DIFFERENT CHICAGO POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING OVER THE WEEKEND WHERE BLACK VIOLENCE CAUSED AT LEAST 11 MURDERS AND OVER 60 PEOPLE SHOT AND WOUNDED
CHIRAQ: After police cornered Warren Robinson under a junked car in the Gresham neighborhood Saturday night, the 16-year-old pointed a .387-caliber semiautomatic pistol at two cops as he tried to crawl out, authorities say.
So the cops shot him.
But then, the boy allegedly raised his gun again.
And the officers opened fire a second time on the Brainerd boy in the 8700 block of South Sangamon. That’s where he would soon be pronounced dead — one of two teenagers killed and three people wounded by Chicago police in less than 48 hours this holiday weekend.
Officials defended, but were at a loss to fully explain Sunday the startling rate of police gunfire that also left 14-year-old Pedro Rios of Rogers Park dead. Mayor Rahm Emanuel refused to comment on the shootings at an unrelated event.
“Five shootings in two days is not normal,” said Larry Merritt of the Independent Police Review Authority. IPRA has investigated approximately 312 shootings by Chicago police since late 2007, when it replaced CPD’s widely-criticized Office of Professional Standards, and has consistently backed officers’ use of deadly force.
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