Prosecutors allege the officer sought “retribution” for an earlier altercation Another day means more problems for the Chicago Police Department. A veteran Chicago police officer was arrested Tuesday and charged with official misconduct, a felony, after a video emerged of him punching and shoving a 24-year-old mentally disabled …
Read More »Chicago Cop Dante Servin Quits Over Rekia Boyd Investigation, Will Get To Keep Pension
Faced with the prospect of being fired, Chicago detective opts to quietly step down two days before police board hearing. Dante Servin, a Chicago police officer whose 2012 fatal shooting of unarmed Rekia Boyd was described as “beyond reckless,” has opted to resign from the Chicago Police Department rather than …
Read More »Anita Alvarez Recuses Herself From Prosecution Of Laquan McDonald’s Killer, Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke
In a surprise move in court Thursday, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez filed a motion to recuse herself and her aides from the prosecution of Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Alvarez requested that a special prosecutor be appointed to take …
Read More »Protest Erupts In Chicago After Officer Shoots And Kills 16-Year-Old Pierre Loury
Chicago now reels from the loss of 16-year-old Pierre Loury, the third person to die this year in a Chicago police-involved shooting. An officer whose identity has not yet been released to the public fatally shot Loury in the chest Monday night after a brief foot chase. The officer says …
Read More »Chicago Cop Gets Away With Molesting 9-Year Old, Judge Can’t Decide If Fondling Is Sexual
Dennis Barnes caught kissing and fondling the child of a fellow Chicago police officer A Cook County judge opted to clear longtime Chicago police sergeant Dennis Barnes of the molestation and sexual assault of a colleague’s young daughter, convicting him instead on the far-lesser charges of misdemeanor battery. As a …
Read More »Rahm Emanuel Calls For Federal Hate Crime Investigation Into Racial Slurs Heard Over Chicago Police Radio
In a letter to U.S. Attorney Zachary Fardon and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked both Cook County and federal officials to investigate the racial slurs heard over Chicago Police Department radio frequencies. A male voice was first heard on March 13th saying, “typical f—ing …
Read More »Chicago Police Officer Who Killed LaQuan McDonald Hired By Notorious Police Union
Officer is being charged with first-degree murder in the killing of LaQuan McDonald Community leaders calling Fraternal Order of Police’s Decision to hire Van Dyke while he awaits trial a “Slap in the face” Activists and citizens are outraged after it was revealed that Chicago’s chapter of the Fraternal Order …
Read More »#ByeAnita: Why The Cook County State’s Attorney Race Matters
I got registered & voted against Alvarez today because @AssataDaughters are fighting for their future. #ByeAnita pic.twitter.com/GsTx5APszY — Rachael Perrotta (@plussone) March 15, 2016 On Monday grassroots activists in Chicago bandaged the ailing city in paper banners to remind voters in Tuesday’s primary election to dump their top prosecutor, Anita …
Read More »Nearly Half Of Police Union’s Statements On Shootings Are False, Study Finds
A study analyzing police union’s statements immediately following a police-involved shooting shows that the Chicago police union has provided a false narrative in nearly half of its official statements since 2012. As first reported by the Chicago Reader, 15 of the 35 statements given by Fraternal Order of Police Lodge …
Read More »Cop Who Killed LaQuan McDonald Broke Dashcam On Purpose
Jason Van Dyke, the Chiacgo Police officer who fatally shot LaQuan McDonald, intentionally damaged his dash-cam and failed to sync his microphone to the camera. Even more disturbing is that a new investigation is revealing that these tactics are commonplace in the Chicago Police Department and nationwide. In a study …
Read More »Chicago Cop Sues Family Of Unarmed Teenager He Killed, Citing ‘Emotional Distress’
File this one under the shameful and morally reprehensible. As though gunning down Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones wasn’t enough, after 911 operators failed to respond three times to LeGrier’s calls for help, the Chicago officer responsible is now suing LeGrier’s family for ’emotional distress.’ Say that again? A cop responds …
Read More »Exposed: Chicago Police Caught Hiding Mics, Destroying Dashcams To Block Audio
A new report has surfaced showing verifiable proof that Chicago Police have systematically destroyed dashcam footage and other evidence in cases under review. Via DNA Info: Chicago Police Department officers stashed microphones in their squad car glove boxes. They pulled out batteries. Microphone antennas got busted or went missing. And …
Read More »Quintonio LeGrier called 911 three times, ignored by dispatch before shot by Chicago Police
On Monday the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA) in Chicago released audio recordings of the three 911 calls Quintonio LeGrier made to the authorities on the morning he was shot six times by a police officer whose gunfire also accidentally killed his neighbor. LeGrier told the 911 dispatcher that his life …
Read More »Cops Intimidate Witnesses Into Changing Their Stories In Fatal Shooting
According to Gawker, “Just when it seemed impossible for Chicago police officers to come off any worse in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, lawyers for the family now assert at least three witnesses were interrogated for hours, threatened and forced to lie about what they saw.” Full Story …
Read More »How Could Rahm Not Have Known??
“City of Chicago lawyers, after meeting with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, demanded the Laquan McDonald family bury the video showing the killing of their son by a police officer.” Full Story – Daily Beast
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