encounter each other after a chase. “At a key point, Stacey
Koon” — one of the senior officers at the scene of the arrest —
“told the officers to back off,” Martin says. “But they ignored
him. Why? Because they didn’t hear him. They had shut down.”
Fyfe says that he recently gave a deposition in a case in
Chicago in which police officers shot and killed a young man at
the end of a chase, and unlike Rodney King, he wasn’t resisting
arrest. He was just sitting in his car. “He was a football player
from Northwestern. His name was Robert Russ. It happened the
same night the cops there shot another kid, a girl, at the end of
a vehicle pursuit, in a case that Johnnie Cochran took and got
over a $20 million settlement. The cops said he was driving
erratically. He led them on a chase, but it wasn’t even that high-
speed. They never got above seventy miles per hour. After a
while, they ran him off the road. They spun his car out on the
Dan Ryan Expressway. The instructions on vehicle stops like
that are very detailed. You are not supposed to approach the
car. You are supposed to ask the driver to get out. Well, two of
the cops ran up ahead and opened the passenger side door. The
other asshole was on the other side, yelling at Russ to open the
door. But Russ just sat there. I don’t know what was going
through his head. But he didn’t respond. So this cop smashes the