- Two men were charged this afternoon in connection with a shootout with police early Thursday in the Brighton Park neighborhood on the South Side.
The two men were caught following a short foot chase when the car they were in crashed after one of them fired at a police squad car near 47th Street on Western Avenue about 4 a.m. Thursday and police returned fire. - The officers, who were in a police squad car, were headed north on Western Avenue just after 4 a.m. Thursday when a tan Mercury pulled up next to them near 47th Street, said Police News Affairs [...]. The 22-year-old man then began firing shots at them, and the officers returned fire,...
The officers began chasing their attacker's vehicle north, and during the pursuit the shooter threw the gun he had been using out of the Mercury...
So they drove up on the unmarked and just opened fire? An initiation ritual? A hit? This is worrisome on a number of levels and the all-calls about "zero tolerance" missions don't provide much in the way of actual info.