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Officer Richard F. Webb was a white police officer working in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. Richard graduated from the Police Academy of Chicago back in 1994. He was born and raised in Southside Chicago, a gang infested neighborhood. Buildings with chipped paint and shattered windows towered over the streets littered with garbage. Every corner was scattered with young black men, bodies imprinted with symbols of their respective gangs. The smell of cigars and alcohol hung heavily in the air. This part of Chicago was regarded as “Chi-Raq”. The Webb family was the one white family in all of Southside.
As a kid, Richard was always regarded as a failure. He was a scrawny, kid, always cut from the basketball team, bullied, and rarely got any

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