Month: August 2019

In Chicago

police for years compiled profiles on citizens who addressed the city’s police disciplinary panel, not only running criminal background checks but also internet searches.

From the Chicago Tribune

Saved by the miraculous discovery of vital evidence

The ruling marks the second time that Poulos, who is white, has been cleared in a fatal shooting of a black man. In the first shooting, which happened in 2013, an off-duty Poulos thought 28-year-old Rickey Rozelle was armed when he saw him holding a shiny object near his waist, but no weapon was recovered, only a chrome-colored watch.