Man With Gun, Swastika Flag, Flamethrower Prompts SWAT Team Response In West Humboldt ParkPolice said they’d closed off a portion of Chicago Avenue near Pulaski Road, but they didn’t immediately provide other details.
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Man With Gun, Swastika Flag, Flamethrower Prompts SWAT Team Response In West Humboldt Park
Police said they’d closed off a portion of Chicago Avenue near Pulaski Road, but they didn’t immediately provide other details.
A neighbor just walked up to the door police breached to “try to talk to John” SWAT demanded he leave and then promptly arrested him. The man has since been released by police. 17:44 02 Jun 23
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Colin Boyle and Trey Arline
12:26 PM CDT on Jun 2, 2023
A man is seen on the roof as Chicago Police and SWAT respond in the 4100 block of West Chicago Avenue in West Humboldt Park for a report of a man with a swastika flag and weapons, on June 2, 2023.
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WEST HUMBOLDT PARK — A man with a gun, a flamethrower and a Nazi flag was surrounded by police Friday evening during a more than eight-hour standoff in Humboldt Park.
For weeks, neighbors have complained of a swastika flag being hung on scaffolding on the roof of a building in the 4100 block of West Chicago Avenue, according to the Chicago Tribune.
The swastika flag was up again Friday morning, when police responded to the scene of a man on the roof with a gun, a flamethrower and other weapons.
Police closed off a portion of Chicago Avenue near Pulaski Road, where the man could be heard either saying or playing a recording saying, “F– you, Chicago Police … I’m gonna kill you!” while blasting audio with the words “F– you” and a recording of “Eye of the Tiger.”
Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago
A man is seen on the roof as Chicago Police and SWAT respond in the 4100 block of West Chicago Avenue in West Humboldt Park for a report of a man with a swastika flag and weapons, on June 2, 2023.
Around 3 p.m., Block Club reporters saw the man wielding a gun and pointing it around the rooftop as police and SWAT teams below attempted to communicate with him. The man blasted a loud siren in an apparent effort to drown out the officers.
Around 4 p.m., the door to the building was breached by authorities and two loud bangs were heard.
Authorities could later be heard attempting to negotiate with the man, who had moved inside the building.
Neighbors gathered around the block Friday said the man regularly goes onto the building’s roof and uses his flamethrower at night, and he’ll blast recordings for hours that say, “F– police” and “F– Joe Biden,” among other things. The Tribune reported that neighbors have heard the man make antisemitic commentary.
Police have been called to the building twice in recent months for similar situations, a neighbor said. He asked that his name not be used out of concern for his safety.
“He plays this every day,” the neighbor said as the man, who could be seen walking around the roof, played one of the recordings. “Nothing’s gonna happen.”
The man will sit on his roof and fire his gun sometimes, and he’ll scream, “I’m gonna kill you,” the neighbor said.
“At this point, it’s like we don’t feel safe here,” the neighbor said.
Credit: Trey Arline/Block Club Chicago
A man has been displaying a swastika flag near Chicago and Kedvale avenues, neighbors said.
Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago
Police were called Friday to West Humboldt Park for a report of a man with a swastika flag and weapons.
Many residents on the block are Black, and there’s a Latino-owned business nearby, while the man making threats is white, the neighbor said.
The neighbor said he used to be able to talk to the man, but the man changed in recent years and started playing the recording and using weapons — and he’s scared to say anything to him now.
“Before, he wasn’t this type of guy,” the neighbor said. “But lately, it’s like he went over the edge.”
https://blockclubchicago.org/2023/06/02/man-with-swastika-flag-flamethrower-prompts-swat-team-response-in-west-humboldt-par
In the end, this man died of a self inflicted gun shot wound.
4142 W Chicago: a male White with a Nazi flag is threatening to kill the mayor and all Black people & he has a flamethrower and was shooting it in the air.
This appears bonafide. SWAT, the ATF & the Police Helicopter are on scene.
This started at about 935 AM
The resolution was that the offender was found deceased w/ a self inflicted gunshot wound. #Chicago
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