Two Chicago cops were shot early Monday as they broke up rowdy Fourth of July crowds setting off fireworks, police said.
A commander was shot in the foot and a sergeant grazed in the leg when shots rang out around 1:30 a.m. in the city’s West Side, Chicago police said in a statement.
Both officers were taken to a hospital, where they were listed in good condition, police told The Post Monday.
No arrests were made and investigators did not release a description of a suspect in the gunfire, which marked at least the 33rd time this year that Chicago cops had been wounded or targeted in a shooting, according to Police Superintendent David Brown.
“As you know, there’s been a lot of large crowd gatherings tonight, a lot of celebratory fireworks going off, kind of spontaneous,” Brown told reporters outside the hospital where the female commander and male sergeant were taken, WLS-TV reported. “They were dispersing a crowd when they heard shots and felt pain.”