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After a year of sweeping changes and more controversy, the department enters 2024 with a new permanent boss facing a long to-do list.

The Chicago Police Board voted to fire an officer accused of dragging a Black woman out of a car by her hair during unrest at a mall in 2020.

Nathaniel Veltman, 22, was found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder for deliberately using his pickup to kill four members of a Muslim family and one count of attempted murder for injuring a fifth family member in the incident in London, Ontario.

The Chicago Police Board has voted to fire an officer accused of dragging a Black woman out of a car by her hair during unrest at a mall in 2020.

The Chicago Police Board has voted to fire CPD Officer David Laskus, who is accused of dragging Mia Wright by her hair during 2020 unrest.

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The Chicago Police Board on Thursday voted unanimously to fire a CPD officer who they found pulled a young woman from a car by her hair and knelt on her neck in the parking lot of the Brickyard Mall on the Northwest Side during the unrest of summer 2020. The board found that CPD officer David Laskus violated several CPD rules — most notably using excessive force and lying to investigators — ...

Officer David Laskus was found guilty of various violations including using excessive force and making a false report in the arrest of Mia Wright.

The Chicago Police Board has voted to fire an officer accused of dragging a Black woman out of a car by her hair during unrest at a mall in 2020. The Chicago Tribune reports the board voted unanimously Thursday to fire Officer David Laskus. The board found that he used excessive force and lied to investigators about the incident. Mia Wright was a passenger in a car that arrived at the mall amid widespread protesting in the wake of George Floyds death. Wright has alleged officers broke the cars w...

The union representing rank-and-file Chicago police officers is pushing to remove more than 20 pending disciplinary cases from the Chicago Police Board’s docket and instead have them decided behind closed doors — a change that would upend more than 60 years of precedent in the city’s police accountability apparatus. The effort by the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 comes as the largest ...