Chicago: police shoot Security man because he was African-American?

It happened around 4 o'clock in the morning (local time), in a suburb of Chicago. The Security staff asks a group of men, the "Manny's Blue Room Bar" to leave because of quarrels. At least one man returns to the Bar. And opened fire.

Four people, including the alleged Shooter, are being violated. It could be more, it would Jemel Roberson, 26, not. He is on this evening as a security guard in "Manny's Blue Room Bar". He returned fire and can overwhelm the man. Roberson "was someone with his knees on the floor, the gun on his back," says an eye-witness of the scene.

Then the police reached the crime scene, an officer opened fire. And shoots Jemel Roberson, the security guard. A little later he explains on the way to the hospital for dead.

"Everyone was screaming 'Security! He is a Security!'"

The incident that, among other things, the British "Guardian" and the US Portal "Vox" report, provides a summary and perplexity. Roberson has probably saved lives. Why did he have to leave his own?

The suspect Because he was an armed African-Americans.

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When the police to the scene immediately and the fire on Roberson opening up, it describes Adam Harris, the local station WGN-TV, you want the circumstances to clarify. "Everyone was screaming 'Security! He is a Security guy!'", as the witness. However, the police have made it very easy for your police work - a black man Betist with a gun and killed him.

According to Sophia Ansari, spokesperson of the competent police authority, was Jemel Roberson the right to carry a gun. He was the only one who died in the incident. There were four wounded, including the suspected shooter, the would be no life-threatening injuries.

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police chief Daniel Delaney said, according to "the Guardian" in a Statement that police had shot officer to "an object with a weapon" ("a subject with a gun"). The Person was later identified as Roberson. The police officials, no further Details are known so far. He was initially granted a leave of absence. The investigations are now at a specially established Task Force in Illinois. Until the completion of the investigation and would not comment on a closer look, writes the Guardian.

the Reverend Marvin Hunter, described Roberson as a "decent young man" and promising Keyboard player. The 26-Year-old had often played in his and other churches in the area. He condemned the incident.

Hunter might have had to do with a similar incident of deadly police violence against African-Americans in his family circle: He is the great-uncle of Laquan McDonald, a Teenager who was killed in 2014, with 14 shots of a Chicago police officer on the open road. About a month ago this was spoken for manslaughter guilty.

fs Date Of Update: 14 November 2018, 08:01