Chicago media – both television and print have somehow lost their journalistic integrity.  Only they can tell you why they are slanting news stories.  They sanitize them to fit a politically correct agenda when their job should be to report the news.  Period.

Maybe that’s why the Tribune (and Sun Times) continue losing readership.  (I dropped mine months ago)

POLICE TRIGGER HAPPY OR WARY OF GUNS POINTED AT THEM?

I watched the WGN-TV Noon News on July 26th and if that's all you saw, you got the impression that some 13 year-old boy got shot by the police for no real reason.  If you read SCC (www.secondcitycop.blogspot.com ) the unofficial Blog of the Chicago Police Department, you read a totally different story and saw the full picture of the teen-ager throwing down (making) gang signs.

This revelation changes the impression a lot.  I guess the question to the media is, why are you so politically correct and not politically accurate when reporting this incident?

In today’s crime-ridden economy, people need to know what is going on and not being fed some story that is not true.  When it comes to guns, police and crime, there seems to be some type of disconnect from reality at least in Chicago.  The police are painted as the bad guy, and the bad guy is somehow painted as some victim.

DROP YOUR GUN MEANS DROP YOUR GUN

Parents, teach your children to heed what a police officer tells them.  That being said, it is evident that this child did not listen and continued to evade the police with a gun in his hand.

If you were in the police officer’s shoes what would you have done?  Waited until the armed suspect shot you and then hopefully return fire?

It is time to point out where the real crime is.  It’s not about guns and gun control.  The crime is poor parenting.  No one should be leaving a teenager out past curfew.  No one should be allowing a young teen to carry a gun. (yes, they did recover a gun at the scene.)

As for the young teen, venture out into what some have called a combat zone with a gun, you are considered part of the zone and you are fair game.

Miraculously, the teen is not dead, but there should be a message here that is not getting out.  Parents need to take a greater responsibility in what their kids are doing.

Whether they live on the south side, the west side, or the North Shore, if a teen goes out with a gun in their hand (bad move number one) and they fail to listen and obey what an officer is telling them (bad move number two), they are then accepting the consequences that will happen to them (bad move number three).

Before second-guessing the police officer’s reaction, just think what you would do if confronted by the same thing on the street.  If someone came up to you gun in hand, would you defend yourself and shoot?  Of course, this is the only state that does not have concealed carry laws so without a gun, you would just become a victim and a statistic.  Dead, blinded, or maimed.

That is another story altogether.

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