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Responding officers quickly moved to detain Jordan, who was wrestling with the officers trying to arrest him, Deenihan said. Once handcuffed, with his hands behind his back, Jordan pleaded with officers to let him move his hands to the front of his body. Officers said no.

Though officers requested a squadrol police van to transport Jordan to the station, a CPD SUV equipped with a backseat cage was in the area. Jordan was put in the SUV and taken to the Grand Central District police station at 5555 W. Grand Ave.

While in the SUV, Jordan was able to move his hands to the front of his body. Then he pulled an “extremely secreted” gun from his “private area,” Deenihan said.

Once at the sally port — a secure interior area where arrestees are moved from police vehicles into the station — an officer opened the back door of the SUV and Jordan opened fire, Deenihan said