As Chicago endures another violent summer, the Augustus shooting embodies much of the complexity, dysfunction and distrust that plagues relations between the police and the most troubled communities they're assigned to protect. Augustus had a state license to own a gun but not one to carry it in public. Police tried to question him about the bulge on his hip but he resisted. Words failed, and within seconds the situation spun out of control. All of it unfolding in broad daylight with numerous witnesses and camera footage.