FILE – In this April 10, 2001, file photo, police in riot gear block a street where people roam the area breaking windows, in a protest four days after the fatal police shooting of unarmed black man Timothy Thomas in Cincinnati. As jury selection begins Monday, Oct. 31, 2016, in the trial of white former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing over the fatal shooting of unarmed black man Sam DuBose during a July 19, 2015, traffic stop, Cincinnati police are beefing up security and civic leaders are monitoring community tensions in hopes of preventing a repeat of 2001 race riots that followed the fatal police shooting of Thomas. (AP Photo/Al Behrman, File)
CHICAGO — Tensions remain high in a predominantly white neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side where an off-duty police officer fatally shot a 25-year-old black man.
Authorities say Joshua Beal of Indianapolis was shot Saturday after he either fired or tried to fire a gun during what they described as a road rage incident.
Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says officers beefed up patrols in Mount Greenwood to prevent a fight between Black Lives Matter protesters and Blue Lives Matter activists on Sunday. He says the department will do the same Monday if protesters return.
The shooting happened during a melee that erupted when an off-duty firefighter told someone in a funeral caravan in which Beal was riding that he or she was illegally blocking a fire lane.