Cop Robbed Of Gun As He Lay Injured After Crash

[Lodge2004]

This is a sad. I really don't understand how somebody could rob an on-duty injured first responder. Hope the officer recovers. The perp on the other hand, can't say what I'd like due to the 10 yr old daughter rule.

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CHICAGO (CBS) ― A Chicago Police SUV crashed into a utility pole at 98th and south Halsted on Chicago's south side.

A Chicago Police officer was critically injured Wednesday after a violent crash on the city's South Side. As CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports, at first it appeared someone was helping the officer. Instead a man was robbing him of his gun as he lay injured and unable to move.

Before he was taken into surgery, the man was able to tell his fellow officers that someone had stolen his gun and tried to roll him over to take his wallet, too.

Three vehicles collided at the intersection of 98th and Halsted streets about 11:45 a.m., according to police News Affairs Officer Laura Kubiak. The officer first hit a car with two senior citizens, who weren't hurt, then crashed into a light post.

The officer is being treated at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn.

Earlier Wednesday crews pried the Chicago police SUV off a light pole after evidence technicians spent hours processing it for fingerprints. Detectives aren't only concerned about the officer seriously injured in the accident. They're also concerned with finding the man who took his gun.

"We do know the officer said he remembers hearing the snap on his gun holster," said Chicago Police Dept. spokesperson Roderick Drew.

A young man who witnessed the incident told CBS 2, "The dude was going to try to help him. He opened the door, I thought he was helping him out, but no, he was taking the weapon from his hip… that's all I saw. I ran back to the house. I didn't want nothing else to do with it."

Witnesses say the gun was stolen minutes after the police SUV hit the side of a sedan that was taking a left onto Halsted off 98th Street. The officer was responding to a burglary call, so his siren and lights were off.

"As he was swerving… the police swerved on the other end and they crashed into the pole. It looked like the police was going 75, maybe 80 miles an hour," said witness Hoyle Marshall.

The driver of the sedan, 85-year-old Edward Blackledge, said, "I got into the center and I look up and saw this police car come up real fast fast, no lights and no sirens on."

At least three others in two cars were injured too. Those at the scene say the officer was in really bad shape, making it easy for someone to take his gun.

"He couldn't move to defend himself or to actually hold it, his gun to its holster. So, they slipped it off, took off," witness Terrence Campbell said.

"To know what happened, it just sickens me to happen to anyhow, much less a police officer, someone who was responding to someone else in need," Drew said.

[dicion]

Quick! Ban police from carrying guns! As this is obviously how criminals are getting them now!!


Sad part is... This is Chicago, there's a real chance that someone is actually saying that SERIOUSLY...

[AEA]

It is sad, but what do you expect from Chicago?

[A-R]

why would someone in Chicago steal a gun off of an injured police officer. I mean it's SO EASY to just buy one yourself in Chicago you don't need to steal one.

[Oldgringo]

A young man who witnessed the incident told CBS 2, "The dude was going to try to help him. He opened the door, I thought he was helping him out, but no, he was taking the weapon from his hip… that's all I saw. I ran back to the house. I didn't want nothing else to do with it."

That speaks pretty well of the good folk in Obamaville.

[bryang]

A young man who witnessed the incident told CBS 2, "The dude was going to try to help him. He opened the door, I thought he was helping him out, but no, he was taking the weapon from his hip… that's all I saw. I ran back to the house. I didn't want nothing else to do with it."

That speaks pretty well of the good folk in Obamaville.

What else would you expect in the land of the messiah? Has anything good ever come out of Chicago...?

-geo

[C-dub]

Has anything good ever come out of Chicago...?

-geo

Pizza?

[surprise_i'm_armed]

Da Bears!!!

[Liberty]

What else would you expect in the land of the messiah? Has anything good ever come out of Chicago...?

-geo

It's a great place to visit, as is Boston, Moscow or Bejing. Terrible repressive leftist governments make them awful places to live. Chicago does have great Italian food.

[BobCat]

Chicago not only has wonderful Italian food, it has all kinds of wonderful ethnic food, prepared like it would have been by people just off the boat. If you like to eat, it is a paradise.

It has the Museum of Science and Industry, which IMO rivals the Smithsonian as far as industrial stuff goes. The Field Museum of Natural History and the Art Institute round out the picture.

If you like Blues, there are (used to be) places on the North Side where you could hear marvelous artists from the West Side and South Side - there may be more Jazz now but it was sparse years ago.

The people of Chicago, by and large, are honest, hard-working, very decent people. They just have a government structure reminiscent of feudal-system Europe 2-300 years ago. A government of men, not laws, where loyalty to your neighborhood leader trumps adherence to written rules or laws. That's the way it is, and that's the way people like it. Again, just my opinion.

I do not go back to visit. I like it here a lot better. But don't dismiss Chicago as a corrupt, dirty, crime-and-thug infested cesspool with no redeeming features.

Regards,
Andrew

[bryang]

Chicago not only has wonderful Italian food, it has all kinds of wonderful ethnic food, prepared like it would have been by people just off the boat. If you like to eat, it is a paradise.

It has the Museum of Science and Industry, which IMO rivals the Smithsonian as far as industrial stuff goes. The Field Museum of Natural History and the Art Institute round out the picture.

If you like Blues, there are (used to be) places on the North Side where you could hear marvelous artists from the West Side and South Side - there may be more Jazz now but it was sparse years ago.

The people of Chicago, by and large, are honest, hard-working, very decent people. They just have a government structure reminiscent of feudal-system Europe 2-300 years ago. A government of men, not laws, where loyalty to your neighborhood leader trumps adherence to written rules or laws. That's the way it is, and that's the way people like it. Again, just my opinion.

I do not go back to visit. I like it here a lot better. But don't dismiss Chicago as a corrupt, dirty, crime-and-thug infested cesspool with no redeeming features.

Regards,
Andrew

Thanks, Andrew, for the interesting facts concerning Chicago. I have to admit that I have never been there, therefore, all I had to go by was the bad press that I have heard about...and is on-going in the political arena, especially.

I apologize to the Chicagoans here on the forum, at least, I got an answer to my question...yes, there is a lot of good in Chicago, and especially those here on the forum that have come out of Chicago... I couldn't ask for a better bunch of friends!

-geo

[Kythas]

I do not go back to visit. I like it here a lot better. But don't dismiss Chicago as a corrupt, dirty, crime-and-thug infested cesspool with no redeeming features.

Regards,
Andrew

So it's a corrupt, dirty, crime-and-thug infested cesspool with some redeeming features?

[BobCat]

bryang,

No problem! It is just that people judge places and other people based on small evidence, and that's dismal.

I work with a guy from China. He is a real nice person, very bright and well-educated, and a pleasure to work with. He tells me there is no word in his language for "pocket knife", and it is uncommon / unknown for anyone to carry a folding knife of any kind. He does not, nor does he miss having one. I carry several folders, one especially to eat with - if you've ever tried to quarter an apple with a short, dull blade, you know what I'm talking about. If he knew only this about me, he would not want to be friends. If all I knew about him was that he comes from a place where nobody carries a pocket knife, and any lockback is illegal, I might decide I didn't need to know him. Just a small example - there is more to people and places than immediately meets the eye.

Kythas,

Exactly! Just like every place else. Another colleague is from New Orleans. Prior to Katrina, we used to discuss whether his hometown or mine was more corrupt. There is corruption and wrong-headedness everywhere, it is just a matter of whether the redeeming features of a particular place are enough to get you to ignore the rest. I don't go back to visit but neither do I wish them an atom bomb or other disaster. Well... maybe a real tough federal prosecutor, but before you know it, they jail the local thugs and put federal thugs in place, and nothing really changes...

Glad this thread is in "off topic"

Regards,
Andrew

[DoubleJ]

I saw this in an episode of SouthLand.

good show.

[aardwolf]

I saw this in an episode of SouthLand.

I came in here to post that. Interesting how they cracked down to recover the gun. I was expecting the plot twist where his gun was used to murder that black girl who witnessed a gang murder.