CHICAGO (CBS) — An officer was hit by a car Wednesday night while trying to arrest a man in the Woodlawn neighborhood.
At 8:40 p.m., officers were called to a disturbance in the 6400 block of South Ingleside Avenue, and approached a man in a vehicle suspected of being a perpetrator of the disturbance.
An officer tried to stop the man, but he drove away and hit the officer with his car, police said.
After a short chase, the man was arrested and a weapon was found, police said.
The officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to an area hospital for observation, police said.
