A Chicago police officer was hospitalized after being struck by a vehicle while responding to a call, authorities said. <\/p>\n
Around 5:31 p.m. Saturday, Chicago police officers were responding to a call of a person with a gun on the 8100 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood. Police said they saw a man matching the description of the person with the gun get into a Chevy Impala and flee. <\/p>\n
As he fled, the man struck a marked CPD squad car and an officer with the vehicle. <\/p>\n
Video taken by witnesses posted on Citizen App round 6 p.m. showed a large emergency response in the area, from both the fire department and police. <\/p>\n
The man continued driving until he was taken into custody on the 4100 block of South Indiana, police said. <\/p>\n
The injured officer was taken to a local hospital for treatment. <\/p>\n
Charges are pending, police said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chicago police officer was hospitalized after being struck by a vehicle while responding to a call, authorities…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":349369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[12276,960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-349368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chatham","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115477772301477126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}