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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 Floyd's death. Wright has alleged officers broke the car's windows and pulled her out by her hair.
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 ...