By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News
(CHICAGO) A sticking point has arisen in the negotiations for a federal consent decree to oversee police misconduct.
The sticking point is a new requirement on cops to write a report every time they point a gun at someone, not just when they fire it.
The FOP objects, but the city’s Inspector General Joe Ferguson is for it, in part, because it happened to him once, saying “I was a teenager working at a gas station that was held up in an armed robbery. When the robber ran, the police who were arriving at the scene thought maybe I was the robber, so in a single incident I had a gun pointed at me by a criminal and by the police who told me to get down on the floor at gunpoint.”
So Ferguson argues the mere pointing of a gun needs to be accounted for.
@ 2018 WLS-AM News
