Posted March 7, 2018 12:08 am by Comments

By John Falkenberg

CHICAGO, IL — The Seventh Circuit court has at long last ruled in favor of an off-duty police officer who opened fire on a group of young thugs attempting to rob a pizza parlor back in 2011, the Courthouse News Service reports.

Controversy came from his actions after it was discovered that a 16-year-old, one of the robbers, had been killed, and he was unarmed.

The court ruled that the off-duty officer had no reason to believe that the teen was unarmed — he was robbing a restaurant, after all.

As the Courthouse News Service reports:

In October 2011, three young men and 16-year-old Michael DeAngelo Sago, Jr. walked into Marie’s Pizza in Rockford, Ill., with the intent of robbing the store, according to court records.

Unfortunately for them, the only customer inside the pizzeria was off-duty police officer Frank Pobjecky waiting for his order. When the first robber pointed a gun at the restaurant manager and demanded money, the manager yelled, “Get the hell out of here, you’re not getting any of my f’ing money,” court records show, and immediately tried to grab the robber’s weapon.

Pobjecky knew the manager carried his own concealed weapon, and endeavored to grab the manager’s …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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