Trust Them

[Wildcat Will]

 

1:24 PM CDT on Sep 20, 2022

 

CHICAGO — A police watchdog has released video of officers shooting two men in a case in Pilsen that led to felony charges for the officers.

Sgt. Christopher Liakopoulos, 43, and officer Ruben Reynoso, 42, have been charged with aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm and official misconduct in relation to the July 22 shooting, which took place in the 1000 block of West 18th Street.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said the officers shot and wounded a 23-year-old man in an unprovoked act of violence, and another person was grazed by a bullet. The officers falsely told authorities they’d been shot at first, Foxx said. Supt. David Brown told the public the same shortly after the shooting.

But videotape of the incident directly contradicts that, and neither of the wounded people fired shots at the officers, Foxx said.

The officers’ lawyers have disputed that, with attorney Brian Sexton, who represents Reynoso, saying at a hearing last week the officer only fired shots after someone walked up to the car with a gun and pointed it at the officers.

The officers’ attorneys tried to stop the Civilian Office of Police Accountability from releasing video of the shooting, asking a judge to block its release. But the police watchdog agency released the video Tuesday.

Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago

Chicago Police Sgt. Christopher Liakopoulos, in a black sweater holding folder, and Officer Ruben Reynoso, in a grey sweater and face mask, are rushed into a getaway vehicle after bonding out at Cook County Jail on Sept. 16, 2022.

The video, which is silent, shows the officers stop their unmarked car in the middle of 18th Street as several people walk on the sidewalk nearby.

The officers then reverse to be closer to a man in a white sweatshirt and a person in a black T-shirt. The two people walk into the street, closer to the car.

The person in the black T-shirt takes a step back and then turns around and runs away, while the man in the white sweatshirt holds up his hands.

Prosecutors said the man in the sweatshirt was holding a wine bottle and cellphone in one hand and nothing in the other, and he held up his hands to show officers what he had. The person in the black T-shirt was wearing a satchel with a gun, Foxx said.

The video then shows the man in the sweatshirt fall to the ground after being shot, with one officer pointing his gun out the car window. The officers get out of the car and shoot down the street as the person in the black T-shirt runs away.

The person running from officers fired shots at them, Assistant State’s Attorney Alyssa Janicki said last week. The officers, shooting back, instead hit a person walking by, causing a graze wound to his leg, Janicki said.

The video shows one of the officers running down the street while the other remains by the car.

The wounded man lies in the street as drivers pass near him, and the officer who remained by the car does not help him. Someone on the sidewalk goes up to the wounded man and leans down by him before walking away.

The second officer returns to the car, and more police arrive and help the wounded man.

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Foxx said the officers shot first in an unprovoked act of violence.

“It is our position based on the facts, the evidence and the law that the officers involved in this incident did not have provocation or justification to shoot the unarmed victim during this incident,” Foxx said. “The evidence does not support the use of deadly force … and was not lawful.”

But Sexton, the attorney representing Reynoso, said it’s unclear who shot first.

Sexton also disputed allegations the officers lied to investigators about what happened. He said Reynoso talked to investigators the next day — after having gone to the hospital for health issues — and said he didn’t recall whether he shot in the car or not.

After Reynoso watched the surveillance footage, he again said he didn’t remember, Sexton said.

“There’s a whole body of science … that says when you have a traumatic, stressful event like this, you’re not going to remember things right away,” Sexton said. “This whole thing about contradicting or lying, that’s completely false. It’s not true at all.”

[Wildcat Will]

Tuesday, September 20, 2022 6:07PM CT

Video was released Tuesday in a Pilsen police shooting that injured two people. Two Chicago cops now face felony charges in that July shooting.

[concha]

 

And this does what to change the fact that bad cop shootings are rare, that an unarmed black man is hundreds of times more likely to be killed by another black man than by a cop, and that reducing/defunding the police results in MORE deaths in the black community?

 

Ask the BLM ladies. I think it's daiquiri night at the LA mansion pool tonight.

 

 

 

[Wildcat Will]

2 minutes ago, concha said:

 

And this does what to change the fact that bad cop shootings are rare, that an unarmed black man is hundreds of times more likely to be killed by another black man than by a cop, and that reducing/defunding the police results in MORE deaths in the black community?

 

Ask the BLM ladies. I think it's daiquiri night at the LA mansion pool tonight.

 

 

 

Hit dogs will holler, eh?

[Wildcat Will]

3 minutes ago, concha said:

 

And this does what to change the fact that bad cop shootings are rare, that an unarmed black man is hundreds of times more likely to be killed by another black man than by a cop, and that reducing/defunding the police results in MORE deaths in the black community?

 

Ask the BLM ladies. I think it's daiquiri night at the LA mansion pool tonight.

 

 

 

Meanwhile..........cops are killing indiscriminately.

Your color is showing.

They are killing whites too........

Racist

[Wildcat Will]

5 minutes ago, concha said:

 

And this does what to change the fact that bad cop shootings are rare, that an unarmed black man is hundreds of times more likely to be killed by another black man than by a cop, and that reducing/defunding the police results in MORE deaths in the black community?

 

Ask the BLM ladies. I think it's daiquiri night at the LA mansion pool tonight.

 

 

 

Sad you can't go?

Maybe you can't afford it?

Anyway......jealousy looks good on you.

[concha]

17 minutes ago, Wildcat Will said:

Hit dogs will holler, eh?

 

So you have no answer.

No one is shocked.

 

[concha]

17 minutes ago, Wildcat Will said:

Meanwhile..........cops are killing indiscriminately.

Your color is showing.

They are killing whites too........

Racist

 

Any stats?

Of course not.

There are roughly 750k law enforcement officers in this country.

How many are killing indiscriminately? 

You don't know.

You are an ignorant fool.

[concha]

18 minutes ago, Wildcat Will said:

Sad you can't go?

Maybe you can't afford it?

Anyway......jealousy looks good on you.

 

Go where?

What are you babbling about now?

Take your meds you ignoramus.

🤣

 

[Wildcat Will]

1 minute ago, concha said:

 

Go where?

What are you babbling about now?

Take your meds you ignoramus.

🤣

 

To the drink night you are mad about.

Talk about being an idiot.

[Wildcat Will]

3 minutes ago, concha said:

 

Any stats?

Of course not.

There are roughly 750k law enforcement officers in this country.

How many are killing indiscriminately? 

You don't know.

You are an ignorant fool.

Never claimed a number.

Ignorance tries to counter with numbers instead of acknowledging the fact it is happening.

Peon

[Wildcat Will]

7 minutes ago, concha said:

 

So you have no answer.

No one is shocked.

 

No answer for insane thought?

No answer to the idiot source.

Shocking you are so dumb.

Shocking anyone is as dumb as you.

[Wildcat Will]

Keep it coming assmuncher.

I'm sending you some sanitizer.

You need to know you can use it other places besides your hands. Clean your food.

[concha]

2 minutes ago, Wildcat Will said:

Never claimed a number.

Ignorance tries to counter with numbers instead of acknowledging the fact it is happening.

Peon

 

You are black man working overtime to do anything to point at a cop - ANY cop - while ignoring other blacks dying by the hundreds and thousands at each others hands and failing to acknowledge that cops save far, far more black lives than the odd bad cop might take.

 

You truly are just a piece of shit. 💩

Truth.

 

[Wildcat Will]

37 minutes ago, concha said:

 

You are black man working overtime to do anything to point at a cop - ANY cop - while ignoring other blacks dying by the hundreds and thousands at each others hands and failing to acknowledge that cops save far, far more black lives than the odd bad cop might take.

 

You truly are just a piece of shit. 💩

Truth.

 

Thank you.

High praise indeed coming from a faction of the initial problemed perp.

I am why you hate.

Admit it

[concha]

1 minute ago, Wildcat Will said:

Thank you.

High praise indeed coming from a faction of the initial problemed perp.

I am why you hate.

Admit it

 

You are truly a fucking wierdo.

Based on our posting here over the months and years, it is clear I care more about black lives than you do.

I married a woman with black African blood. That's how supposedly racist I am.

How do you live with yourself?

Seriously. How?

 

 

 

[Wildcat Will]

1 hour ago, concha said:

 

You are black man working overtime to do anything to point at a cop - ANY cop - while ignoring other blacks dying by the hundreds and thousands at each others hands and failing to acknowledge that cops save far, far more black lives than the odd bad cop might take.

 

You truly are just a piece of shit. 💩

Truth.

 

I are black man.

[concha]

4 minutes ago, Wildcat Will said:

I are black man.

 

You are piece of shit.

 

[Wildcat Will]

1 hour ago, concha said:

 

You are truly a fucking wierdo.

Based on our posting here over the months and years, it is clear I care more about black lives than you do.

I married a woman with black African blood. That's how supposedly racist I am.

How do you live with yourself?

Seriously. How?

 

 

 

African blood is red.

I live with me quite well.

I deal in reality.

You know, I know black racist. I know black racist that hate who they are. Your marriage to whomever you chose does not, in any way, preclude you from your bias, precoeved or otherwise. It is but a circumstance of life.

Your anecdotal situation is unique to you.

[Wildcat Will]

2 minutes ago, concha said:

 

You are piece of shit.

 

Ye-ah Baby!

[Wildcat Will]

1 hour ago, concha said:

 

You are truly a fucking wierdo.

Based on our posting here over the months and years, it is clear I care more about black lives than you do.

I married a woman with black African blood. That's how supposedly racist I am.

How do you live with yourself?

Seriously. How?

 

 

 

" Mom ", Timmy called me weird!"................"and misspelled it"

[concha]

1 minute ago, Wildcat Will said:

" Mom ", Timmy called me weird!"

 

"Son, you ARE fucking weird"

 

[Wildcat Will]

1 minute ago, concha said:

 

"Son, you ARE fucking weird"

 

Good , Is that capitulation I smell?

[concha]

5 minutes ago, Wildcat Will said:

African blood is red.

I live with me quite well.

I deal in reality.

You know, I know black racist. I know black racist that hate who they are. Your marriage to whomever you chose does not, in any way, preclude you from your bias, precoeved or otherwise. It is but a circumstance of life.

Your anecdotal situation is unique to you.

 

I have no bias. You think I do because you are a racist.

I care that poor blacks are dying in droves every week at the hands of other blacks in their neighborhoods. Much of the killing is a result of policies of the political party you fellate. 

You ignore it and look through the news every day praying that some white cop shot a black guy somewhere.

You are, objectively, a piece of shit.

Truth.

 

 

[concha]

1 minute ago, Wildcat Will said:

Good , Is that capitulation I smell?

 

You probably passed gas.

Capitulation has no odor, and even if it did, the internet doesn't have an olfactory feature.

You are a disgrace.