On May 8, a body was discovered at 5400 S. Lake Shore Drive. It took a few days, but the body was identified as that of Monye, Chicago Police Department spokeswoman Officer Nicole Trainor told NewsOne.
The Chicago Police Department seems to be working overtime to prove to the black community that they are the enemy. The latest example of that happened earlier this week after they sent an 82-year-old Black woman to the hospital after they allegedly raided the wrong home. However, CPD is not apologizing for their actions. The […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago police officer who fatally shot a bat-wielding college student and the student’s neighbor gave two versions of what happened — first telling detectives that the student held the baseball bat over his head then telling them two days later that the young man swung the bat at him. The police […]
Racial slurs heard over the Chicago Police Department’s radio scanner may have come from sources outside the department, DNA Info Chicago reports. The incident occurred Sunday morning when a 911 dispatcher and an officer’s conversation was interrupted by other voices on the line. The dispatcher, who believed she was speaking to a police officer, then heard […]
Chicago Commander Glenn Evans is on trial after allegations have surfaced of him assaulting a man with a gun. The Chicago Tribune reports: Prosecutors have alleged that Glenn Evans, one of the department’s 22 district commanders before he was charged and placed on paid desk duty, chased Rickey Williams into an abandoned South Side building, […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A South Side police commander and his officers tortured black suspects into confessing to crimes they didn’t commit. Another rogue unit shook down drug dealers on the West Side for drugs and money. A different group of officers accepted payments from drug dealers to warn them of police raids. And for years, […]
The video of Ronald Johnson's shooting was released by Alvarez's office during a press conference explaining key details of the video on Monday. The shooting happened eight days before Laquan McDonald was also fatally shot by officer Jason Van Dyke in October 2014.
CHICAGO (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is expected to launch a wide-ranging investigation this week into the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department after recent protests following the release of a video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times, a person familiar with the matter told The […]
The Chicago Police Department has launched an investigation on one of its own after video of a white officer making comments about slain Ferguson teen…
Just how racist is the Chicago Police Department? This photo paints a pretty bleak picture http://t.co/m86FOaOFbUpic.twitter.com/9NHrZ4lHeh — Slate (@Slate) May 27, 2015 A decade-old photograph…
Chicago police routinely violate the constitutional rights of mostly African-Americans who have not committed any crime, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week, reports…
A man is planning to sue a Chicago police commander who he said shoved a gun into his mouth and threatened to kill him. The Chicago Tribune reports: A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of Rickey Williams comes about two weeks after the commander, Glenn Evans, was criminally charged for allegedly putting the barrel of his […]
