COPA recommended 12 Chicago Police Department officers be suspended after protests over the murder of George Floyd. The supt. fought back on charges.
Warning Graphic Video: Two demonstrators, both college students at the time, say in a federal lawsuit they were illegally brutalized and injured by CPD officers.
On the day in question, Gov. JB Pritzker called in the National Guard to assist the police department. Access downtown remained limited. Amid the unrest, Chicago recorded 18 homicides, marking the single most violent day in the city in six decades. Anti-police demonstrations were ramping up across the country, but Brown insisted he "had not seen any reason for concern leading into that weekend," according to Ferguson's report. And Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she didn't assume there was "potential for peaceful protests to turn violent."
COPA's report quotes the officers as saying the protests were "hostile" and "insane," like a scene "from a bad movie." The agency said it found some of the officers used excessive force, made improper arrests and failed to turn on their body cameras.One of the officers told COPA the event was a "mass arrest incident" and he did not immediately activate his body camera because of the "hectic nature of the incident.
After three to five baton strikes to the knee, and additional strikes to his thighs and ribs, the protester was eventually restrained and picked up from the ground, according to the report. Another officer on a bike team said he was instructed that mass arrest procedures and paperwork were already in effect.
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