Assailants' Estates Get Paid?

File this one under "un-fucking-fucking-believable:"

• A federal jury awarded $1.35 million to the family of a man shot to death by an off-duty Chicago Police officer after a confrontation at a Northwest Side bar, an attorney for the family said Thursday.

  Officer [...] fatally shot Kenneth Elrod and his friend Demetri Centera on April 7, 2006. Attorney Gregory Kulis represented the family of Elrod in a lawsuit against [...], the city and other officers.

  Kulis said a jury awarded Elrod’s family $1.25 million in the shooting and $100,000 in connection with an allegation that another officer used excessive force on Elrod in a bar before the shooting.

  Centera’s family dropped out of the lawsuit in 2008, records show.

  In 2006, police said [...] helped break up a fight involving Elrod at Magic Touch Club, 5728 W. Belmont. Elrod was thrown out. Later, Elrod and Centera were in a pickup that pulled up to [...]’s Hummer at a stoplight at Belmont and Kilpatrick and pointed guns at [...], police said.

  [...] told investigators he shot the men because he feared for his life. At the time, investigators found he followed guidelines for the use of deadly force. Two guns were recovered from the pickup, police said.

These two pieces of shit were known gang bangers with extensive criminal records, and if we aren't mistaken, had at least a few weapons offenses in their past. One gets tossed from a bar and goes to his home where he gets an illegal handgun that was hidden in a radio and gets his buddy (who also has a gun) to go hunting the off duty cop. They find him and confront him with drawn weapons. Fortunately, the officer is better trained and manages to kill both assailants.

And the City is on the hook for $1.35 million?

Up is down ladies and gentlemen. Chicago is done. A federal jury has decided that if you are confronted by armed assailants, you must either (A) pay them or (B) die. God forbid you defend yourself.