Here Come the Lies

One of the shootings last week:

• A late-night shooting in Humboldt Park left one Chicago police officer injured, a male suspect dead, and grieving family members disputing CPD’s account of the incident.

We're told the family is frantically erasing any social media presence of the dead shithead.

• Chicago police’s preliminary investigation suggests that the incident occurred around 10:30 p.m. Thursday when officers attempted to conduct an investigatory stop in an alley in the 4300 block of West North Avenue in Humboldt Park.

  According to police, as the officers approached the suspect, identified by family members as Nathaniel Fejerang, he allegedly fled into a nearby backyard on foot, leading officers on a chase.

  Carrie Garza, a family friend and mother of Nathaniel Fejerang’s girlfriend, told WGN-TV that’s not what occurred. “He was chilling in the yard with the neighbors, so there was no running from police,” she said. “He was already in that yard.”

Not what the body cams and security cameras are showing. It was a pretty active foot chase over a number of addresses:

• CPD said that officers eventually caught up with the suspect, but while working to detain him, a struggle ensued. According to police, Fejerang’s weapon discharged, striking one of the officers in the leg. Police add that following the gunshot, one of the officers opened fire and fatally wounded Fejerang, who was pronounced dead at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Amazing isn't it? When a suspect struggles, his gun "discharged," implying zero responsibility for the gunfire, but when police shoot someone, it's always "opened fire" at the subject, squarely attaching the action to the result. (this paragraph rewritten for clarification - SCC)

We're told the body cams show an active struggle and the offender actively attempting to draw his weapon, managing to squeeze off a shot that wounded the officer. What the media isn't reporting (and believe us, we're trying to find this footage) is a nearby security camera has vivid video of the offender achieving the "room temperature challenge" almost drawing his weapons and losing that race via a perfect set of head shots. Supposedly, it's better than the Zapruder film.

The family is (of course) positioning themselves for a ghetto lottery payout, and no doubt, Conehead will be knocking on their door to write them a check at some point. But again, sources are telling us that the neighborhood was terrified of this shithead and are actually relieved he's no longer around to terrorize their families. 

Let's see if the media does any of the necessary footwork to find the real story. We're betting no.