A truck loaded with Nike Air Force Ones and Christian Louboutin shoes showed up on the south side of Chicago near a neighborhood basketball court.
Doesn’t really seem to be that big a deal until it was revealed that this was a “bait” truck left by Norfolk Southern Railway Police, with the assistance of the Chicago Police Department to help lure thieves.
In this predominantly black neighborhood, the truck traveled to multiple locations, in which three people were consequentially arrested.
People of the neighborhood didn’t seem to take this too lightly. There are plenty of folks accusing the police of setting the residents up to steal.
The police response?
“In the recent past, individuals broke into parked freight containers in the Chicago area, stealing a range of consumer goods, to include guns and ammunition in transit,” Norfolk Southern spokesperson Susan Terpay said in an email to Vox. “Norfolk Southern has the responsibility to ensure the freight we are transporting is safely delivered and does not pose a risk to the communities in which we operate. This week’s police operation was intended to directly combat such unacceptable thefts.”
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