An officer in the Chicago police department is under investigation for shooting Robert A. Russ during what he intended to be a routine traffic stop. The officer tried to pull over Russ for driving "erratically."Russ refused to pull over. A five-mile pursuit followed culminating when Russ spun out of control forcing him to stop. When approached by the Police officer he refused to exit the car. The officer then smashed the car's tinted window and with the motivational prowess of a 9-mm handgun asked Russ again to exit the car. Russ, in an attempt to take the weapon away from the officer, was killed when the gun fired. Authorities saw that the officer's actions were appropriate because his life was in danger. However, with pressure from "three dozen chanting protesters . . . demanding a public investigation," Mayor Daley told the superintendent of the police, Terry Hilliard, to inve....

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