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Sgt. Christopher Liakopoulos and Officer Ruben Reynoso of the Chicago Police Department have been acquitted of charges related to the shooting of Miguel Medina.

Two Chicago police officers accused of shooting an unarmed man and then lying about it have been acquitted. Cook County Judge Lawrence Flood ruled Thursday that Sgt. Christopher Liakopoulos and Officer Ruben Reynoso were within their rights to protect themselves when they opened fire, wounding 23-year-old Miguel Medina twice on July 22, 2022. Liakopoulos and Reynoso each were charged with aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm and official misconduct. The officers claimed they came under fire and shot Medina in self-defense, but no gun was found near him. Neither...

Two Chicago police officers were injured overnight Friday when someone tired to batter an officer and when they tried to subdue the person another offender intervened, striking the officer with a wooden stick, police said. The attacked happened around 1 a.m. in the 2500 block of South Homan Avenue. Police said an officer was hit with a heavy wood stick. Two officers were taken to an area ...

A Chicago Goonie Gang member was sentenced after retaliating against two witnesses in a criminal investigation; the girlfriend of a man who went missing while boating in Lake Michigan this week says something isn't right; and an unsanctioned "nude beach" sign was installed at a Chicago beach over Labor Day weekend. 

The crash occurred about 2:15 a.m. in the 6300 block of South Kildare when the striking vehicle ran a stop sign and struck a patrol car responding to a call of service, a witness told police.