Two Chigaco police officers are under investigation after a bystander filmed them twice shooting an apparently unarmed man who was resisting arrest. The man, according to Chicago P.D., was being arrested for “moving between two train cars, a city ordinance violation”.
The video shows police struggling with the man for several minutes before he breaks free from being pinned on the ground. At that point, one of the officers yells “shoot him!” and the other fires toward the man. The officer who fired the weapon shot at the man twice, police said in a statement. The man, who was not identified, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he remains in critical but stable condition after surgery, police said.
The rule would be “comply or die” but for the inability of the officers to shoot straight: they got him in the buttocks and the stomach.