Not Once, Not Twice

What the actual f#$%?  Three times?

• An 18-year-old Plainfield man has been detained after prosecutors said he drove into Chicago police officers not once, not twice, but three separate times, injuring five cops and knocking one of them unconscious as they tried to disperse a massive street gathering on the Near West Side early Sunday. When Rashad Johnson’s car finally came to a crashing halt, officers pulled him from the vehicle and allegedly found a loaded Mac 10 pistol in his waistband.

  According to Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Rausch, a large number of CPD officers were deployed near Roosevelt Road and South Loomis Street around 2:54 a.m. Sunday to disperse a crowd of several hundred people. Officers lined the east side of Loomis and the south side of Roosevelt, Rausch said, and the westbound lanes of Roosevelt were blocked by marked squad cars with their lights activated.

  An 18-year-old Plainfield man has been detained after prosecutors said he drove into Chicago police officers not once, not twice, but three separate times, injuring five cops and knocking one of them unconscious as they tried to disperse a massive street gathering on the Near West Side early Sunday. When Rashad Johnson’s car finally came to a crashing halt, officers pulled him from the vehicle and allegedly found a loaded Mac 10 pistol in his waistband.

  According to Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Rausch, a large number of CPD officers were deployed near Roosevelt Road and South Loomis Street around 2:54 a.m. Sunday to disperse a crowd of several hundred people. Officers lined the east side of Loomis and the south side of Roosevelt, Rausch said, and the westbound lanes of Roosevelt were blocked by marked squad cars with their lights activated. 

We don't know who needs to hear this, especially you new kids, but a car is a lethal weapon. If only we had someone....a gym teacher even....who passed themselves off as a Use of Force "expert" (when he wasn't banging recruits) to explain this to the younger Officers.

Amazingly, judge Ankur Srivastava kept him in custody.