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Chicago Police Officer Nick Morales was the first backup to arrive at the scene the night Officer Ella French was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop.
Officer Carlos Yanez, who’d been shot in the head, told officers rushing him to the hospital to call his wife and tell his son he loves him. They told him to hang on so he could do the talking himself.
The move by John Catanzara amounted to a stinging rebuke of a high-ranking police official with a deep personal connection to the tragic shooting.