Cop Catches Baby Thrown At Him By Kidnapping Suspect

July 25, 2011 10:38 AM

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CHICAGO (CBS) – A kidnapping suspect used an unconventional and dangerous method of trying to avoid arrest early Monday – police said he tossed the newborn baby he was holding at two police officers responding to a domestic disturbance.

An officer caught the baby when the suspect threw the infant and the officer then started punching the officer’s partner, sparking a scuffle before he was arrested.

About 12:30 a.m. Monday, two Chicago police officers were on their way to a domestic disturbance call involving a child in the 1500 block of South Pulaski Road, when the call was upgraded to a kidnapping, according to a police report.

When the officer and his partner got to the scene, several citizens pointed out a man in his 20s described to them as the suspect and a woman who told them that man had her baby, who appeared be less than a year old.

The officers approached the man who was walking down the middle of the street with the child in his hands when he turned and threw the baby in the direction of one officer who caught the baby, the report said.

As the officer gave the baby to the mother, the suspect then began punching the officer’s partner and a struggle ensued with the three, lasting several minutes, the report said.

Both officers were injured during the fight. They suffered several lacerations and one had a sprained shoulder. Both had been released from Mount Sinai Hospital.

The report said the officers placed him under arrest after they were able to control him. He was also taken to Mount Sinai where he was being checked for intoxication and because he had been striking his head against something, according to the report.

The mother and baby, who did not appear to be injured, left the scene during the fight.

The relationship between the suspect and the woman and child was not immediately known.

As of early Monday, authorities cannot try to bring an attempted kidnapping charge because the child and mother left, but police said it’s possible the man may be charged with aggravated battery and resisting arrest.

Harrison Area detectives are investigating.

(The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.)

Cop Catches Baby Thrown At Him By Kidnapping Suspect

Bonnie Jean Connors

Another glaring error by the author of this article. “An officer caught the baby when the suspect threw the infant and ……the officer then started punching the officer’s partner, sparking a scuffle before he was arrested.” What??? The officer started punching his partner?????

Winghunter

Try again genius;

“As the officer gave the baby to the mother, the suspect then began punching the officer’s partner and a struggle ensued with the three, lasting several minutes, the report said.”

Swamp Willow

Nope, read it again (unless they have since corrected it). An earlier paragraph had the officer striking his partner. The paragraph you referenced occurred later in the article.
Who’s the genius?

2nd paragraph clearly states “…the officer then started punching the officer’s partner…” You are quoting the 6th paragraph, which summarizes it correctly.
Where are the editors?

Bonnie Jean Conners is referring to Paragraph 2 of the article. The error was indeed glaring.

Winghunter refers to Paragraph 6 of the article.
Tyler

Obviously it was a typo!
Nativam

I read the same thing Bonnie Jean Connors read. She’s right. C’mon CBS wake up. Are we getting different versions here or is Winghunter seeing things?
Kip Noxzema

Try reading the whole article, Genius.
jimbo

This piece is obviously the work of a graduate of the new and improved school system.
RLA Bruce

There were two separate lines describing the fight, one correct and one wrong. Try again, genius.

moogle

1. “An officer caught the baby when the suspect threw the infant and the officer then started punching the officer’s partner, sparking a scuffle before he was arrested.”
Should probably read “threw the infant AT the officer…” but the subject of the sentence is still a little unclear so I think it would have been better as “The suspect threw the baby at one of the officers, who caught it, then (the suspect) attacked the other police officer.”

2. Grammar, along with accuracy in reporting, IS important.

3, Yeah, the cops should have shot the guy, not because of whatever race the suspect was, but because the suspect was a danger. And he threw a baby! Jeez…
Phil B.

Apparently, people are being rushed through high school and flung through college only to prove to be the non-intellectuals their public education ensured they would be.
No More PC

Another inept job filler who can’t do the work..
Ha!

This is Chicago, you’re lucky it wasn’t written in ebonics.
Opiesysco

So the kidnapper threw the baby and the cop??
Then Obama came to the rescue and saved the kidnapper from the cops that were acting stupidly??

Mr. Wizard

Chicago cops seem to get their butt’s kicked a lot even when there is a numerical advantage in their favor. I suggest they put the donuts down and get in better shape.

Ron Zaks

Based on what’s happening around the country this year, quite a few of you are very bad. In fact Chicago has not escaped its share of negroes acting up.
Lee

I know that you’re not all bad Tasha, but many of your people are commiting crimes against white people. According to The Department of Justice’s own statistics 47,000 white women were raped by black men in 2006. This is a disgrace that many are not aware of because the mainstream media tends to cover up black on white crime by not divulging the perpetrator’s race.
If some of you would speak out against the criminals of your race instead of always thinking black and being defensive before being a human, that would be a good start in changing white people’s attitudes toward you all.

Tired of the Color Complex Ignorance

So, now we are only reporting on crimes by black people? Pull up the number of rapes on white women by white men. More than half of that number aren’t even reported. Again, I wasn’t aware that crime was only limited to the black population.

Winghunter

Lloyd Marcus told us everything we need to know on that subject;

The Black Code: Why Obama Still Owns The Black Vote ht.ly/5FWxk
Leroy Goldberg

Not all of you, that is true. Only 99.999999% of you.
Chicago Citizen

@Mr. Wizard, Police should not have to fight to begin with. If you fight with a cop, you should be shot. This is real life, not the UFC !
Eagle in NYC

Dear Mr. Wizard. You might consider a different nom de plume.

Where does it say that the police “got their butts kicked?” The article said that they suffered injuries but it does not say whether the perp did as well. All the article says is that he too was taken to the hospital. It does not say that he did not have bruises and lacerations as well. It leaves his injuries, if any, unstated.

Further, how is one-on-one a numerical advantage? (“Chicago cops seem to get their butt’s kicked a lot even when there is a numerical advantage in their favor.” – As opposed to a numerical advantage for them to their disfavor.)

After all, the perp’s action of throwing the baby at them was to get one of them out of the fight so he could go after one officer, one-on-one. (“As the officer gave the baby to the mother, the suspect then began punching the officer’s partner… “)

And, as any thug knows, he threw the baby to the stronger of the two so that he could fight the weaker. Maybe a pc-mandated female officer? Maybe a male beneficiary of the court abolition of a minimum height requirement, which itself was a result of the rush to include shorter-than-minimum height female officers?

I know which officers are strong and which aren’t:
http://www.chicagopolice.org/answerthecall/pdf/recruitment-flyer-28-dec2010.pdf

So, to my mind, you just disrespected a female police officer. Or a small man ordered onto the force by the courts.

And, of course, we have to remember how the cops are limited to only a few, court sanctioned techniques when they go “hands on” with a suspect.

So, while Mr. Thug can bite and scratch and headbutt and all the rest (think Mike Tyson on the downslide of his career), the cops have to stay with soft come along techniques that will still look acceptable on the 11 o’clock news. And in court.

So, good job, “Mr. Wizard.” I hope that cops show you as much respect when you next encounter them as you have shown them.

Ha!

Ever hear of a Taser?
Reality

Yes there is a use of force continuum, but if an Officer feels that their life is threatened then they can use any means necessary. That means pipe on the street, car door, whatever is available. Also if the officer that was punched first was a female officer and the perp was a larger “scary” male then she would be well within her right to shoot him much earlier that the larger male officer.

I do agree with you though that until the fight reaches critical limits officers are at a disadvantage. I don’t know the department but it probably goes something like this.

1. Verbal communication
2. Asp/OC spray
3. Taser
4. Lethal force

All steps up in force vary on the situation and when two officers are present your ability to use increased force is decreased, no matter how small or large the officers are.

Unlike the perp, the police have an objective to bring the suspect in alive.

Also to Ha! Sometimes situations happen very quickly and by the time the second officer got rid of the baby I am sure he was unable to use a taser or gun because his/her partner was already too close to the suspect. At that time your options get very limited.

All of this is not mentioning that this is obviously not a nice neighborhood and these “TWO” officers are having to keep an eye on the crowd to make sure someone else doesn’t try to join in.

Who has the numbers???
Reality

BTW, that is a great picture. Only the taller black male has any noticeable muscle tone. :)

Ha!

Learn to spell before you lecture others, it’s looks stupid.

Vicky

Where does it say that the suspect was black?!?

Lajames Johnston

There are no whites, hispanic or asians on the 1500 block of S. Pulaski.
Jamall

@Vicky, Who the hell else is going to do something like this?

tasha bowman

Color isn’t what make ppl do bad things….its who they r as a person blk blue yellow green or white….every bad thing that happens in the news does not involve blacks,its just easier 2 blame blacks
Tammy Henson

@tasha bowman, Put down that crack pipe. Nobody wrongfully blames anyone for anything. People’s actions speak for themselves. The notion that somehow blacks are blamed unfairly is a whole load of BS. We all know that is a myth.
YES WE CON! YES WE CON!
Ha!

Hey Tasha, flies don’t cause garbage either but you find more of them at the dump than butterflies. Wake the heck up!

changomango

@tashabowman–Ever visit ANY African country or the Caribbean? The whole African continent and every single Caribbean country run by blacks is a wasteland of corruption, incompetence , indifference, intolerance and savagery!

NWA

What about war of Bosnia and Herzegovina where in 1992 they decided to kill one another? They called it ethnic cleans but, weren’t they all White?

S.O.S.
Nico

Not to mention most of Africa.
Jermain Williams

@NWA, What the hell are you talking about? Chango’s comment is right on track. Please leave irrelevant history where it belongs.
JDH

NWA….they were muslim.
Calvin

Wait! You mean that African country where Eddie Murphy came from in “Coming to America” is not real? What about the country of Wakanda where the Black Panther rules as king? Just because it is in a comic book doesn’t mean it’s not real.
Lyndia

If these countries are full of savagery, then why do you take your honkey a@@ over there?
Ha!

Pssst! NWA?

You can have an ethnic difference without a color difference, you BOZO!!

Jim

It’s can easily be assumed.
margerry

The lack of description is what makes the guy black. If he were anything else , it would have been stated.
Glad_2B_Texan

Easy steps to determine perps when no info is given:
1.) Open web browser.
2.) maps.google.com
3.) Enter 1500 South Pulaski Road, Chicago IL
4.) Click Search
5.) Drop little gold man on the map for “street view”
6.) Search in vain for anybody in who isn’t black standing on a street corner...

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1500+South+Pulaski+Road,+Chicago,+IL&hl=en&ll=41.859078,-87.723341&spn=0.009781,0.024955&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=42.445866,102.216797&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.860079,-87.724993&panoid=jh1lbN5GEsU0u8m3abZ-Kg&cbp=12,72.03,,0,0

Ha!

rofl

you know it’s true

They can make the biggest zoo in the world….put a fence up around the West Side!

Torrence

@you know, Please don’t forget the South Side! Even bigger zoo.
Lyndia

If a fence was put around the west side, where would you get your sex and drugs? Who else is going to be bothered with you and your little bitty weiner?

Ha!

I thought Weiner quit?

Ha

You wouldn’t be able to get the fence built. All your supplies would be stollen by the second day or work. ha

mike

It’s things like this that embareass the decent Black people. You know,the ones who WORK,GO TO SCHOOL, TAKE CARE OF THEIR CHILDREN,TAKE RESPONSIBILITY and KNOW HOW TO CROSS A STREET!!!!

tasha bowman

Now this I can completely agree with
changomango

You mean all 258 of them? And it’s embarrass, now that’s embarrassing!

Torrence

@chango, That is absolutely hilarious. 258?

Steven

And those blacks, who also dress nicely, speak clear english, etc, are called Uncle Toms and “trying to be white” by all the other blacks. Who, being too stupid to realize it, are therefore saying that being “black” is the opposite off all those things – in other words, being black is savage, they are saying it themselves – but then get offended if they are called ‘savages’ and asked to act properly.

Black people are MESSED UP.
Ha!

AMEN!!!!

And we wish to GOD they’d speak up/out more often!
Ha!

Or the standouts. I’d kiss Condolesa Rice’s feet, or Clarence Thomas’ for that matter!

Mark Matis

Just some more Obamas runnin’ wild. What else would one expect from them?

But they ARE Rahm;’s most reliable voters (next to the residents of Resurrection Cemetery, of course) so don’t expect “Law Enforcement” to do anything to them…

Lyndia

You are jealous of the president because he is young, gifted and THE PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY. You are old, dumb and a long way from becoming president of anything except the president of the moose club.

Andy

Young?! He’s 49!!! Gifted?! At what?! Golf?! Vacationing?! The guy is a total joke…
Ha!

He’s my age, he’s NOT young. Too young to be Pres maybe, but not young. And it’s funny you automatically assume everyone is born with the desire or goal of being president, as if it’s some measure of a human being. Look at this fool we have now, Clinton, Carter…..disasters all. Of course you’re either uneducated or too young to know up from down yet.

Liberalism is a PTD. Politically Transmitted Disease.
Dave-o

Gifted? Try remedial. And a temper-tantrum throwing crybaby if things don’t go his way.

If you voted for 0bama in ’08 to prove you weren’t racist, vote for anybody else in ’12 to prove you aren’t an idiot.
Mark Matis

Keep on suckin’, darlin’! It looks so quaint dribblin’ down your chin like that.

Tim

Why didnt they just put this animal down? Seriously, who would care if you shot a guy who just threw a baby?

Ha!

Does it count to say I’d care if you only shot him once? Think Swiss cheese….

truther

All of the political correctness in the world is not going to change the fact that the vast majority of violent crimes in this country are commited by blacks. All of the political correctness in the world is not going to change the fact that the vast majority of out of wedlock babys to teenagers happens in the black community. All ot the politcal correctness in the world is not going to change the fact that there are more young black men in prison htan in college. All of the politacal correctness in the world is not going to change the fact that the vast majority of the single parent disfunctional families in this country are black.

Bill

Cant argue with that.
Jermain Williams

Well, what about it, NWA? Lyndia, nothing to say?
Kay

Please cite your source re: “the fact that the vast majority of the single parent (dysfunctional) families in this country are black.”

All Of Us

Thanks Kay, the truth will set us free. We all agree!
Diogenes

Eyeballs.
James Ridge

It’s in that movie “An Inconvenient Troof.”

Babyshaker001

Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Lyndia

Have you been in the mountains and saw all the ignorgant, snuff dipping, incest believing, nasty teeth, stanking, poor white trash there? Go out east, WV, V, Etc.
You need to get an education. Yes, blacks committ crimes but not the kind that whites commit. They do freakest things like kill and eat the dead. (put part of the body in the frig to eat later, savage) Molest and bury the person in their basement. Statics points to the fact that most psychopaths are WHITE. WHITE BABY. THEY WILL GET AN INSURANCE POLICY ON THEIR MAMA AND KILL HER. (cold, dangerous people)

Ha!

As opposed to just gunning each other down in the streets from moving vehicles the way it’s supposed to be done, right sweetie?

Geesh….don’t vote or procreate for another decade at least, ok?

Ha!

And not a single one of those dictates that it’s either a condition or a cause, so stfu until someone figures it out. Assuming one is as bad as the other at this point.

changomango

The savages, Obama included!

NWA

What does the President have to do with a baby being thrown on the west-side of Chicago?

S.O.S.

Brad

Because Obongo is simply a negroid and has the same DNA that the animals that throw babies have.It is becoming more and more apparent in the ongoing debt cealing talks.If I were Banner,I would start wearing a flack jacket at any future meetings with Barry Soetero.

Lyndia

Obama has more sense in his dooky than you will ever have in your life, douch bag face.

http://wishididntknow.com/2011/07/25/kidnapping-suspect-throws-baby-at-police-officer-%e2%80%93-who-catches-the-child/ Kidnapping Suspect Throws BABY at Police Officer – Who CATCHES the Child

[...] (CBS) – A kidnapping suspect used an unconventional and dangerous method of trying to avoid arrest [...]
Winghunter

Yeah, I dislike it when bad guys bang their head against my nightstick like that.

Charge the SOB with attempted murder of a newborn! Then tell the inmates what he’s in for!
Leroy Goldberg

Oh they sure love makin’ dem babies. Having all that sex, collecting all those welfare checks. They just don’t know what to do with dem babies after they are done making them.

And yes…THEY = BLACK, but we all knew that already.

Tyreese

Keeping it real as always, Leroy. Keep up the reality checks. It is appreciated.

Leroy Goldberg

As always, it’s my pleasure Tyreese. Please continue to do the same.

Lyndia

Leroy, you are just mad because you can make a baby because you can not stand up in it and you can’t make a spit baby. So you are F@@@ up. I know your mama hates she had your sorry a@@.

Leroy Goldberg

Oh look, Lyndia is taking some time off from being on her back to make some comments.

Ha!

Or it was just a conditioned response he learned on the football field….bunch of guys running towards you to take you down, you get rid of the ball bro!!

Jessica Arrington

The obscenely racist statements made about African Americans on this site is a clear indication of the mindlessness and engrained fear that many whites hold about black American citizens. You idiots fail to realize that the black criminals you hear about, 95% if time commit crimes against black people, or have committed crimes against black Americans prior to committing crimes against whites.

You are blind if can’t see that the whole world is full of violence by all colors of people. You self-aggrandizing fools. You write these stupid statements two days after a white, blonde, blue-eyed man slaughter scores of innocent white kids!

Fed up

Jessica is obviously a charcoal pit.
Leroy Goldberg

“You idiots fail to realize that the black criminals you hear about, 95% if time commit crimes against black people, or have committed crimes against black Americans prior to committing crimes against whites”………….

I realize it and appreciate it immensly Jessica. In fact, there is nothing better than Black criminals commiting crimes against Black people. It’s a win-win situation and you hit the jackpot if the Police shoot and kill said criminal!!

lyndia

I am going to say it again: why you little nasty, booger picking, baggy pants, cheap, hen pecked, good for nothing, cheap imitation of a men, with your little bitty d@@@.

Jermain Williams

@Jessica, I have found nothing here to be obscene or inaccurate. I do agree that 95% of violent crime commited in the city, is commited by blacks. You are blind if you can’t see the immence problem within the black community. I also would like to know what neighborhood this murder of kids happened. I didn’t hear about that.

Canary Feather

It was in Norway. The lamestream media is trying to peg the shooter as a “right wing Christian” freak. Said reporting is that of the left loonies, to try to make a point to take away our guns.

Diogenes

Well shoot! Now that I know that it is typically black on black I feel better about that.
I reckon the rest of us American citizens are safe because of that fact.
But a white guy killed a bunch of white kids?? Man THAT’S crazy!!!!!
Ha!

Oh climb off your high horse honey, offering up the fact they shoot each other more often than others is hardly a mark on their resumes for intelligence, now is it?

Put a sock in it……geesh…

Nico

Good grief, the O is right next to the P, just a typo miss know-it-all.

Virtual Vigilante

Sp the name pf the PPTUS is really Barack Hussein Pbama?

kim

wow, really tired of reading articles written by 3rd graders. Glad the baby is ok,

Curious

Why, are you a teacher?
Ha!

Why? Statistics state he’ll likely grow up and rob you or your children at knifepoint someday.

Virtual Vigilante

“An officer caught the baby when the suspect threw the infant and the officer then started punching the officer’s partner, sparking a scuffle before he was arrested….

Harrison Area detectives are investigating.”

(The Sun-Times Media Wire contributed to this report.)

——————————

An officer punching his own fellow officer?

I would think the detectives should investigate that — if they can stop pummeling each other long enough…
Mike

Best line of the article:
He was also taken to Mount Sinai where he was being checked for intoxication and because he had been striking his head against something, according to the report.
Sticking his head against something?
Priceless

Ha!

Yeah there was a size 11 police duty shoe print in his face, he saw the shoe and kept slamming his head into it time after time after time…..saying something like “can’t we all just get along….” or something….

http://www.tristanhallman.com/?p=785 Tristan Hallman | Monday Madness! (July 25)

[...] NFL Prospect? A Chicago police officer with good hands caught a baby that was thrown at him during an [...]
http://www.fastnews.tv/?p=40885 Cop Catches Baby Thrown At Him By Kidnapping Suspect… | Breaking News

[...] (Second column, 11th story, link) [...]
Lisa

Peace people, there’s good and bad in all races.

Brad

Lisa,may I direct you to the latest FBI/Homeland security stats.This should help you determine that your statement is just liberal gibberish.

Ha!

Really? Do they draw conclusions? Or just state statistics that you then interpret for yourself and force the judgement on everyone else?

LC

What bothers me the most is that the mother, after having her baby saved by the 2 policemen, just fled the scene.

Obviously, SHE has reasons to avoid or flee from the police.

But in so doing the baby’s mother also is PREVENTING the suspect from the proper criminal charges from being filed against him.

That is just shameful.

Ha!

She go run look fo da babydaddy….unless dat wuz im!

Lilly

My generation worked tirelessly to end black crime. We gave Blacks preferences in opportunity, tried criminal rehab then punishment because the murder was so bad for everyone. We introduced black racist supremacy doctrines (aka diversity race doctrines) to give blacks self esteem so many they would not feel the need to commit so much crime. Welfare, housing, Black only scholarships…nothing has worked. Now they are demanding Marxism. I give up.

Brad

Yes Lilly,it is time to give up,move away from negro centers and arm up because you are gonna need a good supply of lead.

Lyndia

Brad are your talking about a race war? Why don’t you take your whitea@@ to 15 and Pulaski and begin killing the first black person you see? then watch happens to your honeky ass.

moi

WHERE IS THE EDITOR”"”"

An officer caught the baby when the suspect threw the infant and the officer then started punching the officer’s partner, sparking a scuffle before he was arrested.

Ha!

That WAS the editor.

Brad

Negros have a differant concept of the value of life.They never really progressed as whites/Aryans have.One only needs to look at the world around them to see this factoid.We are not all the same.Negro’s throwing babies?Big deal,in most negro run countries as well as some US cities,they would not throw away a good meal so quickly.

Ha!

Geezus, that’s seriously sick dude. People are right when they say it has NOTHING to do with color, NOTHING, understand? This is an EDUCATION issue, NOTHING MORE! I’m white as the gd driven SNOW and if I didn’t know how to read, write and use a computer I’d be SCROOD (there IS an editor out there somewhere, right?) trying to find work or run a business or get a loan.

TRY IT sometime. And THAT is the same ALL OVER THE WORLD. You deprive someone of a modern education you sentence them to an existence capability equivalent to 200 years ago but force them to compete in modern society with it. THEY LOSE.

NO MATTER WHAT STINKING COLOR they are for crissakes.
Ha!

And the generational effect is multifold. Deprive just one generation of a decent education, and subsequent generations will be effected to the point it’s like priming a pump and then it’s self sustaining. Too dumb to know you’re dumb-no way out. Simply and crassly put, so you can understand.

Bohica

No, the article is still the same sorry writing as original…the officer punching his partner then later clarified that it was the punk punching his partner.

…along with “who appeared be less than a year old”.

Nice Chicago ebonics there CBS.