Joshua Beal was in Chicago this past Saturday to attend as a pallbearer for is young cousin’s funeral. His young cousin had been the victim of gun violence.
Beal is now dead, at the hands of police fire bullets as he was shot after a road rage incident as the funeral party left the burial by car.
An altercation involving a firefighter who claimed funeral cars were blocking a fire lane, alleged plain clothed officers and Beal led to shots being fired by the police and Beal dying.
A video caught a dispute between local Black Lives Matter members and a Chicago Police Department supporter who was recorded shouting “Nigger, go home!”.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that 25-year-old Beal was shot by a sergeant because he refused to drop a gun (which the family say he legally owned and never pointed at anybody).
A family member claimed that plain clothed officers cut off her daughters vehicle, they drew their gins and failed to identify themselves. This is when Beal got involved and also held his gun ready.
Pro-police protesters in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood supposedly threatedned Beal’s family and local BLM actovists with violence for speaking against the police department.
Local activist Kofi Ademola told DNAinfo:
“A young white guy [walked] up with a baseball bat,”
“The police took the baseball bat from him. White people are driving by and yelling at us ‘Nigger, go home! Get the fuck out of here! Blue Lives Matter.’ More of them got out of [a] car and chanted ‘CPD! Blue Lives Matter.'”
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