The community safety team officers were not wearing body cameras, meaning there may not be video to either support or challenge the department’s account. They shot me five times.’”Īllen said her son denied having a gun, though police posted a photo of a gun they said they found at the scene. “He said, ‘Mama I love you.’ I said, ‘I love you, too.’ He said, ‘Mama, they shot me. “He said, ‘Mama, I’m all right,’” she recounted. Authorities said Allen shot at the officers during the chase and two officers returned fire.Īllen, who was taken to University of Chicago Medical Center, has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and unlawful use of a weapon, authorities said.Īllen expressed relief that her eldest son was expected to survive his five bullet wounds, each bullet having missed a vital organ.
The man, later identified as 20-year-old Latrell Allen of Chicago, fled, leading to a foot chase by officers. Officers found a man walking east on 57th Street and Racine Avenue matching the physical description and attempted to stop him, police said. The violent stretch began Sunday afternoon, when the Police Department’s newly created community safety team responded to a call about man with a gun in the Englewood neighborhood, authorities said. “When protesters attack high-end retail stores that are owned by the wealthy and service the wealthy, that is not ‘our’ city and has never been meant for us.” Police shooting unfolds “Over the past few months, too many people - disproportionately Black and Brown - have lost their jobs, lost their income, lost their homes, and lost their lives as the city has done nothing and the Chicago elite have profited,” the organization’s statement read. “That means the police superintendent and the mayor, who’s a very hands-on mayor when it comes to these kinds of decisions.” “The real question today is, where was the strategy? What was the decision making at the highest levels?” said Hopkins, 2nd. He criticized Lightfoot for failing to develop an effective strategy following looting incidents in May and June. Brian Hopkins, who said he was on Michigan Avenue from midnight to 4 a.m., described a scene in which officers were overwhelmed by looters and apparently did not have much of a plan for restoring order. It took police officers roughly four hours to get downtown under control, leading to a political blame game and calls for the Illinois National Guard to once again help quell unrest in the country’s third-largest city.ĭowntown Ald. This requires an investment of money to rebuild and replenish.” They’ve destroyed everything, they’ve taken all the merchandise that I have to sell. “I just don’t know what the next move is going to be,” said Mullins, the accessory store owner. Many store owners worried how they would survive the latest turmoil amid the pandemic and with insurance claims still unpaid from the previous looting spree. David Brown called a "brazen" attack on both officers and society.In the wake of the unrest, shattered glass, broken mannequins, toiletries and shoe boxes littered the city’s toniest streets.
part of what Chicago Police Department Supt. You were my guardian angel that night."īallesteros was one of three law enforcement officers shot in the line of duty last week alone. I will be forever grateful for his quick thinking and swift response. While in the hospital, Ballesteros recorded a video statement in which she said, in part, ".Most importantly, thank you to Officer Young, who had my back and carried me to safety.
During the stop, a suspect opened fire at officers, and Ballesteros was struck, authorities said. on May 1 when she and fellow officers conducted a traffic stop in the 6100 block of South Paulina. Ballesteros was shot at approximately 5:43 p.m. Officer Fernanda Ballesteros wiped a way a tear as Mariachi music played and dozens of her colleagues saluted her while she was leaving the hospital. A Chicago police officer was released from the University of Chicago Medical Center Monday, five days after she was seriously injured in a shooting in the city's Englewood neighborhood.
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