My son and I were sitting in the front room and heard the common yelling fight there usually is on our Armpit-of-Duluth-Corner-of-Doom. It was 5 p.m., the time the kid got off the bus last Friday, when all the chaos happened. Yesterday, Pirate was sick sans bus.
At the first “gun-shot,” I told Pirate to duck, then covered him. I counted seven gun shots; the sound was not “together” like a firecracker. And it was LOUD!
After the shots, I crawled to my kitchen to get my phone (our apartment is all windows) and then saw three policemen with bullet proof vests (reading “Police” on the back) with machine? (big and long) guns pointing at the three young men, whom they told “On the ground, on the ground” many times. A fourth policeman in the same “black” police gear came and hand-cuffed, then foot-cuffed the three young men.
Then about five snipers? – guys/ gals in camouflage, helmets, vests, big guns and two camoflauged snipers had weird water or air guns “arrived on the scene” – or basically seemed there for a while. “They” cleaned up the sidewalk in front of my place and the place across the street.
Time passed and I looked out my fishbowl again to see the teen perps questioned (no more foot cuffs) at three different cars, by three different policemen. At this time some plain clothes police (a man and a woman)? come out on the road, questioning the police/ perps as well.
Like the last incident in front of my house, I have heard NOTHING about what happened on the T.V. news or in the DNT.
I called the Lincoln Park Police Department today and got its voice-mail. I left a message. My son heard from a neighbor that it was a “Flash-Bang” grenade.
During the whole incident (which lasted a couple hours) there was also a huge truck with lights in the middle of the next block.
I was not told anything about the incident (“coast is clear”, “this is what’s happening”, etc.)
AND, nothing about this event was in the paper or in the TV news.
Will someone please tell me what happened in front of my house?
