Affiliate Embargo: WLS; Chicago, IL Additional Embargo: Notes and Restrictions: Additional Source(s): Date Shot: 7/14/2018 Shipping/Billing Info: Description: Elements: LIVE SCENE Wire/Story Description: CHICAGO -- A man was shot to death Saturday evening by at least one Chicago police officer in the South Shore neighborhood. It happened about 5:30 p.m. near 71st Street and Chappel Avenue, according to police and Chicago Fire Department officials. The man was pronounced dead at Jackson Park Hospital, fire officials said. EMAIL Man fatally shot by Chicago police in South Shore: officials Ad Duration00:00 PAUSE Current time01:25 Seek 00:00 Duration03:00 TOGGLE MUTE Volume SETTINGSTOGGLE FULLSCREEN EMBED MORE VIDEOS A fire broke out at about 4 a.m. in the 13500-block of South Baltimore Avenue in Chicago's Hegewisch neighborhood. Sun-Times Media Wire Updated 9 mins ago CHICAGO -- A man was shot to death Saturday evening by at least one Chicago police officer in the South Shore neighborhood. It happened about 5:30 p.m. near 71st Street and Chappel Avenue, according to police and Chicago Fire Department officials. The man was pronounced dead at Jackson Park Hospital, fire officials said. No officers were hurt, Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted. Inbound and outbound Metra trains were not operating between Stony Island and South Chicago/93rd St. due to the incident, according to a 7:22 p.m. tweet by Metra. This is a breaking story. Check back for details. Station Notes/Scripts: LIVE EVENT; NO SCRIPT TO GET Projects: None Cost Center: Atlanta National Desk / 20100101 Created By: lholland On: 1531616022 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20-year-old Eric Torell, who had Down syndrome, was shot dead by police in Stockholm Officer Michael Moore was fired after telling a group of African-American men that "you don't belong in my city." A group of women say they were targeted while checking out of their Rialto, California, AirBnB because they are black. Police responded, said the caller was an elderly white woman. (CNN) — First, he told the children to “back up.” Then he pointed his gun at them. An El Paso, Texas, police officer has been placed on desk duty after a chaotic cellphone video of him pulling a gun on a group of children was posted to Facebook on Friday. According to the El Paso Police Department, the officer was responding to a criminal trespass call in the area Thursday evening. The city and police department have begun an investigation into the incident and for the time being, the officer who pulled his gun has been placed on desk duty, according to Dionne Mack, the El Paso deputy city manager for public safety and support services. A gun comes out and it’s captured on camera A video of the incident, uploaded to Facebook by user Aj-king Stoner on Friday, has since been viewed almost 5 million times. The camera begins rolling in the middle of an altercation in front of the Seville Community Center in El Paso, Texas, where a group of young children are shouting insults at a police officer who is holding a young man against a fence. He tells the other the children to “back up, mother******” and pulls his gun out, pointing it at them for a moment before putting it back in his holster. All the while, he is pinning the boy’s head against a stone column with his knee. The young man repeatedly says: “He just assaulted me.” Over cries of “You can’t do that to him!” and insults from the group, a second officer helps drag the boy onto the road where he is handcuffed face down on the asphalt. The first officer tells the kids to “get back” again, and this time whips out his baton, extending it toward the group and pushing them with his hands to get away. AJ -king Stoner/Facebook The officer extended his baton toward the crowd of children. While the boy is held against the road, his brother, who is filming the event, calls out to him, according to CNN affiliate KVIA. “It’s all good,” he says. “We are going to put a report on these two fools. It’s all good.” The police officer who pulled out his gun earlier then grabs the boy who is filming. “What are you doing — hey I’m just recording!” he shouts as he is handcuffed. That’s when the brothers’ mother, Elizabeth Flores, takes the phone and continues the video, according to KVIA. AJ -king Stoner/Facebook A boy is held against an El Paso police car. As the cop approaches Flores, she runs away and the first officer yells after her, saying he knows where she lives. When Flores returns, a different boy, one wearing a white shirt and blue shorts, is talking to him. “You pulled out a gun on a minor,” the boy says, looking up at the officer. “He wasn’t doing nothing but standing up. He was standing up normal. You pulled out a gun?” That boy is also escorted away and is held against the police car. Before additional police officers arrive and appear to de-escalate the situation, Flores can be heard saying: “Somebody’s going to end up dead one of these days.” The investigation is ongoing At a news conference on Saturday, El Paso Police Department spokesman Sgt. Enrique Carrillo said the department is launching an investigation to determine whether the officer who pulled his gun was following protocol. Until the investigation is over, the officer, a four-year veteran of the department, will remain on desk duty. “What you’ve seen (in the video) is just a small piece of a puzzle,” Carrillo said. “The investigation needs to come to a conclusion before we can make a determination as to whether there were policies or protocols that were violated.” Carrillo also confirmed that one adult and one minor were taken into custody after the incident and were charged with interfering with the duties of a police officer. He could not say whether they had been released. At the news conference, Mack stressed the need for educating children on how to engage with police officers and said she believes it is also important for police officers to be part of the surrounding community.<doc-sep>EL PASO, Texas (KTRK) -- An El Paso police officer is on desk duty after video surfaced showing him pointing a gun at kids.El Paso police say the incident happened Thursday. It started with a criminal trespassing call at a community center.In the video posted on Facebook, the officer can be heard yelling "Back up" twice to the group of boys, many of whom appear to be younger than 10 years old.While attempting to detain one of the boys, the officer puts his knee onto the side of a boy's head before a colleague helps the officer drag the detained boy onto the street.Meanwhile, the group of teens and kids gather around the officer, with some of them cursing at him.Then you can see the officer pointing a gun at them.The police department is investigating whether the officer violated any procedures. He's been with the police department for four years.<doc-sep>An El Paso police officer is being investigated after video showing him threatening a group of children with a gun went viral. Filmed on Thursday, the video shows the El Paso Police Department cop detaining one child while yelling at others to get back. Moments into the video, the police officer draws his gun at the group of children who are protesting the arrest of their friend. "Put it up!" one bystander yells at the officer, who quickly holsters the weapon. "That's why I f***ing hate cops, pointing a gun at us and sh**," says one child. ICYMI: Things to know about white nationalists, the hate group targeting Texas colleges Video also shows the officer pulling out a nightstick and ordering the children away from their friend, who is pinned to the ground and being arrested by a second officer. As the arrest takes place, the person filming consoles the child and tells him he will report the officers. In response, the police officer caught on camera threatening the children with his gun grabs the cameraman and arrests him too. "The initial call went out as a criminal trespassing in progress," El Paso Police Department spokesman Sgt. Enrique Carrillo said in a Saturday news conference. "The officers arrived and were handling that when they encountered the suspect involved in the criminal trespass and from there the events you witnessed in this video unfolded and that is where we are at." The El Paso Police Department said the officer in question has been placed on desk duty and an internal investigation into the incident was launched, according to ABC news. Fernando.ramirez@chron.com Twitter.com/fernramirez93<doc-sep>El Paso Deputy City Manager Dionne L. Mack and El Paso Police Department spokesman Sgt. Enrique Carrillo said at a news conference Saturday that an adult and a minor were arrested for interfering with the duties of a police officer. A video showing an El Paso police officer pointing his gun at a group of children has gone viral, with more than 2.7 million views on Facebook. The incident, which occurred Thursday and resulted in the officer being placed on desk duty, is being investigated, city officials said Saturday after the video surfaced and was reported by the media. El Paso Deputy City Manager Dionne L. Mack and El Paso Police Department spokesman Sgt. Enrique Carrillo said at a news conference Saturday that an adult and a minor were arrested for interfering with the duties of a police officer. No injuries were reported. "We have assigned additional resources to ensure the investigation can be completed expediently," Mack said. She did not provide a timeline for when the investigation would be completed. The video, which was posted at about 7 p.m. Friday on Facebook by a person with the handle "Aj-King Stoner," begins in the middle of an altercation between a police officer and a boy who appears to be a teenager. The El Paso Times has chosen not to share the video because of the graphic content. The video is laden with curse words, mostly from children yelling at police officers. It shows an unidentified officer with his hand on the head of a boy who is sitting on the sidewalk by the Seville Recreation Center in a neighborhood north of Ascarate Park. At least six young boys can be seen in the video yelling at the officer. The officer then pulls out his handgun, points it at the boys and yells “Back up! Back up (expletive).” The boys curse back at the officer. The officer puts his weapon back into its holster after a few seconds. The names of the officer, who has been with the department for four years, and the two people arrested have not been released. The incident began when officers responded to a report of criminal trespassing at about 5:50 p.m. Thursday, Carrillo said. “The officers arrived and were handling that when they encountered the suspect involved in the criminal trespass and from there the events you witnessed in this video unfolded and that is where we are at,” Carrillo said. No further details were released on what happened before the recording started or after the video ended. Mack said her office was notified about the incident Saturday morning after the video had gone viral. She added that, to her knowledge, no complaints had been filed against any of the officers involved in the altercation. After holstering his gun, the officer in the video points to someone off camera and says, "You again?" He calls for more officers to respond to the scene. “Get over here,” the officer is seen saying into his radio. The children curse at the officer and his partner throughout the five-minute video, which has been shared more than 47,000 times and has received more than 25,000 comments. About 30 seconds into the video, another officer runs into the scene. Both officers then pull the boy, who was being held down by the first officer, to the ground. While the boy is being handcuffed, the officer who earlier pointed the gun at the children, extends a nightstick. He yells at the crowd, which has grown, to get back. The boy recording the video says, “It is all good. We are going to put a report on these two fools. It’s all good.” He is then grabbed by the police officer but hands his phone to someone else and is handcuffed and placed in the back of a squad car with the boy who had already been handcuffed. A woman can be heard yelling curse words at the officers. An officer then approaches the woman, who runs away from the officer. He tells her "I know where you live." The woman tells the officer she doesn't care using an expletive and says, "I'll move." The officer later begins arguing with a young boy and tells the boy “do something.” The officer, who is several feet taller than the boy, stands over the boy and continues to stare at him. The boy is then grabbed by the officer and put up against the police vehicle. The woman who is recording yells, “Just because he is my son, he is going to take him in. What a (expletive).” The video does not show if the boy was arrested. The crowd continues to scream curse words as more officers arrive at the scene. The video ends with an officer coming up to the woman recording the video and asking for her contact information. Officials declined to provide details about the department’s policies on officers pulling out their handguns or batons during incidents. The policy was not released Saturday. The Internal Affairs investigation will look at whether the officer violated any department policies, Mack said. "The whole investigation process with IA (Internal Affairs) will determine whether the officer followed protocol, look at all of the related incidents that surrounded that, take an opportunity to (do) interviews," Mack said. "And go through that entire process, so all the facts and data are gathered before any conclusions are drawn."<doc-sep>
A police officer in El Paso, Texas, was placed on administrative leave after a video showing him pulling a gun on a group of young children went viral. The video, filmed on Thursday, was posted to Facebook on Friday by 15-year-old Jacob Saucedo, according to NBC News affiliate KTSM. In the video, Saucedo is dragged by officers before being handcuffed and put in the back of a patrol vehicle with another boy. Since it was posted, the video has been viewed more than 4.7 million times. El Paso police officers were responding to a report of criminal trespassing when they came across Saucedo, according to a statement released by the department. Saucedo said he was crossing the street to meet his mother at the Seville Recreation Center when police told him to get up against a wall for questioning, according to KTSM. Jacob said that prior to the video's start, the officers grabbed him by the neck and forced him to the ground. "I'm just mad because I don't know why the officer choked me," Jacob told KTSM. The alleged choking is not filmed and El Paso Police Department did not immediately respond to NBC News' request for information about the circumstances of the video. In a statement, the El Paso Police Department said it is investigating. "A series of events unfolded while the officers were handling the call and culminated with the situation that was captured on video and posted on social media sites. The Department’s Internal Affairs Unit is conducting an investigation of the incident. Additional resources have been allocated to assist in expediting the investigation," the statement reads. What is on camera begins by showing an unidentified police officer confronting a group of approximately 15 children, some whom appear to be teens and others who appear to be significantly younger, many of whom can be heard shouting expletives at the officers as they detained Jacob. Jacob can be seen sitting on the floor in front of the officer, who within seconds of the video starting, draws his weapon and points it at the group of kids. The officer who pulled the gun approaches the group again with a baton drawn while another officer continues to arrest Jacob. Later in the video, the boy filming the confrontation is also taken into custody and hands his phone off to Jacob's mother, Michelle Flores, who is in the crowd confronting the officers. Flores, who was inside the recreation center, said she rushed outside after hearing the commotion from the other children. "I jumped over and it's one of my sons getting choked by an officer," Flores told KTSM. Flores also hurled curse words at the officers as they detained her child. As Flores confronts the officers, they detain a third child. The more than five-minute video ends with four officers in frame, with one asking Flores for more information. Two people who were detained were charged with interfering with duties of a police officer, KTSM reported. It's unclear if Saucedo was among those charged. The El Paso Police Department said the officer in question is a four-year veteran and has been "assigned desk duties pending the investigation."