Members of violent street gangs in Chicago have formed a “shoot on sight” pact to execute police officers who draw their weapons on suspects.
Chicago, which has the highest national average of officers being shot or killed, is home to multiple factions of street gangs who are “actively searching for” and filming police officers, according to an FBI report.
Chicago-based FBI agents released an August 26 “situation information report” that details the gang activity, ABC7 reported.
The report states: “members of these gang factions have been actively searching for, and filming, police officers in performance of their official duties. The purpose of which is to catch on film an officer drawing his/her weapon on any subject and the subsequent ‘shoot on-sight’ of said officer, in order to garner national media attention.”
According to police superintendent David Brown, there is an overall “sense of lawlessness”, and the “danger to police officers is real and increasing.”
Brown continued: “I think it’s bigger than a suggestion. I think 51 officers being shot at or shot in one year, I think that quadruples any previous year in Chicago’s history. So I think it’s more than a suggestion that people are seeking to do harm to cops.”
“We need police officers and as community members we need to push back fervently against lawlessness,” Brown said.
