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Chicago’s FBI Warns Cops ‘Gang Cabal’ May Be Targeting Police Officers To ‘Garner National Media Attention’

Emily Zanotti
Chicago’s FBI Warns Cops ‘Gang Cabal’ May Be Targeting Police Officers To ‘Garner National Media Attention’
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FBI officials in Chicago have warned officers of the Chicago Police Department that they be under attack from a “cabal” of three dozen street gangs who have pledged to shoot cops on sight if they see a CPD officer with a gun drawn.

Chicago’s ABC affiliate reports that, according to a memo that went out from the FBI’s Chicago office to members of the CPD, “three dozen cold-blooded street gangs” “have formed a pact to ‘shoot on-site any cop that has a weapon drawn on any subject in public,'”

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