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"This offender had no regard for their position as police officers," Supt. Brown said. "No regard. And began trying to kill them. Let's be clear. This offender turned and immediately tried to kill these officers, by firing a gun and hitting both of them."

Jennifer Coleman resigned after an internal investigation into a prosecutors in-court statements that implied Adam Toledo had a gun when he was shot.

Official resigns after probe into statements made in court about Adam Toledo, who was fatally shot by Chicago police Christine Fernando, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT An official in the Cook County States Attorneys Office resigned after an investigation into in-court statements made by a prosecutor suggesting 13-year-old Adam Toledo had a gun when he was killed by Chicago police in March.  Staff were informed Wednesday that First Assistant States Attorney Jennifer Coleman re...

Simone Joyaux died over the weekend after suffering a stroke by Rebecca Cooney Free email bulletins

Jennifer Coleman resigned after an internal investigation into a prosecutor's in-court statements that implied Adam Toledo had a gun when he was shot.

Frank Main/Sun-Times file An analysis of the city’s gunshot detection system released Monday found that nearly 86% of police deployments to alerts of gunfire prompted no formal reports of any crime. The research, conducted by the MacArthur Justice Center at the Northwestern University School of Law, shows there were more that 40,000 “dead-end deployments” to gunshot alerts recorded between July 2019 and mid-April — an average of 61 each day. Just 10% of the alerts over that period sent...

Fundraising Mentor Simone P. Joyaux Dies May 3, 2021 Internationally known and respected fundraiser Simone P. Joyaux, ACFRE, died Sunday at a hospital in Rhode Island. She was 72. Joyaux suffered a stroke caused by cerebral amyloid angiopathy this past Thursday, a condition diagnosed 14 months ago. Arrangements are not yet finalized, said her husband, Tom Ahern. She’ll be cremated, he said. “Simone was not in favor of rituals of funerals and such.” Joyaux was known around the globe as a f...

Sun-Times file photo The family of Anthony Alvarez viewed footage Tuesday showing a Chicago police officer fatally shoot the 22-year-old last month in Portage Park, according to the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which is investigating the shooting. COPA spokesman Ephraim Eaddy confirmed that Alvarez’s family saw the footage but declined to give further details. Though Eaddy did not offer an exact timeline of when footage would be made public, he said videos could be expected “...

CHICAGO, ILL – Chicago native Jontae Adams is mourning the loss of his 7-year-old daughter, Jaslyn Adams, after she was killed in a shooting at a Chicago McDonald’s drive-thru earlier in April. A video began circulating social media of Adams pissing on his opps’ grave, but he took to Facebook Live to deny it being actually him in the viral clip, which some believed could’ve been the reason behind the shooting altercation. “That’s not me pissing on no videos,” he said. “But I’...

Reply(1) The Alvarez case has been largely eclipsed by the police killing two days earlier of thirteen-year-old Adam Toledo, an incident that commanded national attention. That may change after COPA releases video from their investigation into Alvarez’s death. (Shutterstock) By Madison Muller, Jamie Kalven and Invisible Institute, South Side Weekly: After an anguished month of seeking answers in vain, the family of Anthony Alvarez will learn details about what happened on March 31 when a Chic...