WGN reports that a Chicago police officer was run down by the driver of a stolen SUV.
It happened just before midnight at Odgen and Trumbull. The officer was approaching the vehicle on foot when the driver hit the gas and knocked him down.
The SUV then crashed into a fence, and all of the occupants jumped out and ran. Police arrested two of them.
The Chicago Tribune reported over the weekend that the new use of force guidelines for the Chicago Police Department stated that “firing into a moving vehicle will be generally forbidden, even if the car is headed toward an officer; the officer is supposed to get out of the way if possible.”
The officer wasn’t seriously hurt in this incident.