Maybe I’m drinking the Second City Cop Koolaid, but this story got me riled up. Particularly the first two paragraphs:

An 18-year-old man on probation for a weapons conviction was shot and killed by a Chicago police tactical officer Tuesday afternoon on the city’s Northwest Side after police say he confronted officers with a loaded pistol.

Some witnesses and family members told a different story, saying that Luis Colon, 18, had turned and was running from plainclothes officers about 5 p.m. when he was fatally shot in the 2700 block of North Kilbourn Avenue in the Belmont Gardens neighborhood.

You know, I hate that I have to do the leg work and point it out to the media, but all you have to do is find the Chicago Police Department’s Use of Force Model. Since it’s late and SCC has a less-than-stellar archiving abilities, I can’t find the specific article, but there is a great SCC piece on cops being completely justified taking out an offender fleeing a scene with a weapon. It is perfectly reasonable to assume that he is a threat to the community and could either take a hostage or shoot a bystander and needs to be stopped.

It’s always great to read SCC’s honest, no bullshit rebuttal.