Fox32 Blows Another One

Ridiculous that they even give this woman the time of day:



First of all, what is this woman's background in State Law, Chicago Police procedures and the application of Use of Force under both of these criteria? Larry Yellen doesn't even ask these questions to establish this woman as anything but a low-credibility witness. She has just paid a toll, was two lanes over and even admits in the story that it happened so fast that she "could be mistaken" in what she may have observed. So why even give her air time?

Oh yeah, Yellen is a police hater.

More problems with her story:

• Tollway Plaza's are loud and busy places. She claims she didn't hear anyone announce their office or tell the offender to stop the car. We understood the car was partially disabled following a crash (that she doesn't mention hearing). Any announcing of "Police!" could easily have been drowned out in the hustle and bustle of the toll plaza, sirens, traffic noise, and it was directed at the offending vehicle, not toward a woman two lanes over looking at officers' backs. And after 30 miles of blue lights chasing him to Elgin, we're pretty sure the offender knew it wasn't Santa Claus chasing him with a missing present.
  
• She says the police walked up and shot the offender once - yet the offender had at least two holes in him from separate shots. And windshield holes.
  
• Unless she has x-ray vision, she cannot see the hands or legs of the offender. If the offender was putting the car into gear in a continuing effort to escape, then the offender needed to be shot, probably many more times than twice. He had already attempted to run over a CPD officer in Chicago - it's completely believable he would do so again. Use of a vehicle as a deadly weapon?

In any case, this is just another piece of garbage reporting from a bottom feeding "reporter" with an anti-police agenda who puts a completely unreliable "witness" on TV to trash cops. No different from other local hacks who grab the first baby-momma-cousin who knew "Boo" was just about to turn it all around and he "never did have no gun no way no how" and the police planted that pistol after they shot "Boo" in the back. Never you mind about "Boo's" three other gun arrests, all resulting in probation, his long rap sheet of dope arrests and the tendency for him to beat the crap out of four different baby mommas cause they're always after him for child support.