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A police constable (WPC) assigned to the Transit Unit has been discharged from the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex and is on sick leave after she was knocked down by a maxi taxi while on duty on Tuesday morning. Police said she received 13 stitches to the back of haer head, legs and lower back
A 17-year-old boy faces charges after being seen with a firearm in a restricted area of a CTA train car Thursday evening.
A CTA union president demanded Wednesday that the transit agency bring back conductors and re-establish its own police unit to stop a surge in violent crime and unruly behavior that’s depressing ridership and putting CTA employees at risk.
Eric Dixon, president of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 308, argued that crime on the CTA would remain “out of control” until conductors return — at least on subway trains.
The pair, one of them in a wheelchair, confronted the victim around 3:30 p.m. Nov. 24 in an elevator at the station, police said.