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Another fatal police shooting left a black Chicago man dead Saturday evening and was immediately followed by violent protests. Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said officers attempted to make contact with a neighborhood barber but it escalated into a confrontation and he was shot while running from the police. Guglielmi said the man had been "exhibiting characteristics of an armed person."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tense situation after Chicago Police shoot and kill a man in South Shore. Police say there was a confrontation and he was armed <a href="https://t.co/ZqJExF5S9n">https://t.co/ZqJExF5S9n</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/dsplacko?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dsplacko</a> on the scene <a href="https://t.co/LQtMsfdoB7">pic.twitter.com/LQtMsfdoB7</a></p>— FOX 32 News (@fox32news) <a href="https://twitter.com/fox32news/status/1018309524657135616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Sure enough, a weapon was recovered at the scene, but police did not say whether the man drew the weapon on police. The man is believed to have been in his 30s, according to Chicago Sun-Times. A Chicago Fire spokesman said the man was pronounced dead at Jackson Park Hospital.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A man died Saturday evening in the South Shore neighborhood after he was shot by police, according to the Chicago Fire Department. No officers were injured.<br><br>This story will be updated as more details become available: <a href="https://t.co/nFk6h3hojP">https://t.co/nFk6h3hojP</a></p>— Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) <a href="https://twitter.com/chicagotribune/status/1018283771328638976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 14, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Guglielmi said no officers were injured in the shooting. Some witnesses reported seeing a female officer shoot a man in the back as he ran away. The officer who fired their weapon was taken away from the scene by police as the crowd quickly swelled to over 100 people. The crowd began getting confrontational with police and had to be beaten back with batons. People were seen vandalizing property including a Chicago police cruiser.

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The situation just severely escalated when Chicago Police officers moved their line forward. Officers hit multiple protestors with batons, and protesters punched officers back. I haven't seen a police shooting scene this tense since Laquon McDonald. <a href="https://t.co/LfEnMP0k85">pic.twitter.com/LfEnMP0k85</a></p>— Nader Issa (@NaderDIssa) <a href="https://twitter.com/NaderDIssa/status/1018293418748010496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2018</a></blockquote>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's the start of the latest escalation, where Chicago Police rushed the protesters, who had been throwing bottles. More video to come. <a href="https://t.co/EkSfzbcu4j">pic.twitter.com/EkSfzbcu4j</a></p>— Nader Issa (@NaderDIssa) <a href="https://twitter.com/NaderDIssa/status/1018327931033128962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2018</a></blockquote>

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's the rest of the escalation, including multiple Chicago Police officers on top of one man, hitting him, and then dragging another man. This is also the start of where I get shoved to the ground. That video is coming next. <a href="https://t.co/AJ7t85nEHP">pic.twitter.com/AJ7t85nEHP</a></p>— Nader Issa (@NaderDIssa) <a href="https://twitter.com/NaderDIssa/status/1018330592478482432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Officers and rioters clashed at the scene of the shooting while people threw glass bottles at officers. Several people from the crowd were arrested as rioters chanted, "Murderers!". Perhaps they should take a look among themselves, over 1,000 people have been shot in Chicago between January and June, only a six month period in a single city.

Rioters destroying evidence are hurting their cause as now key evidence related to the shooting will be lost or destroyed making it more difficult for investigators to piece together what happened. If the officer who shot the barber truly did so out of cold blood, good luck proving that in court now with casings probably stuck in the shoes of rioters. Over <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/">450 white people were killed by police in 2017</a>, yet no one rioted, vandalized, assaulted police, or destroyed evidence at the scene.

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Source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-police-man-shot-south-shore/