Friday, March 14, 2025

Search results for keyword: Chicago found in 1331 News.

police-reform
  • by david hall
Chicago police union files lawsuit accusing oversight agency of ‘biased and unfair investigations’

“We want the court to send a signal ... that our members are not there to be basically pinatas and punching bags,” said Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara.

columnists
  • by david hall
‘Bad-mouthing’ Chicago did indeed get Mike Wallace booted from 1968 Democratic convention

CBS News legend Mike Wallace was arrested during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. It happened when he was reporting on a scuffle over a delegate's credentials. But one of the arresting officers' widows tells Sneed, “The mayor was very upset that he [Wallace] was bad-mouthing…

2024-democratic-national-convention
  • by david hall
Days before DNC, legal groups fire off letter to mayor, top cop raising alarms about possible police abuse

The letter was signed by 65 organizations, lawyers and legal workers, including the ACLU of Illinois and the Civil Rights & Police Accountability Project of the University of Chicago Law School.

Politics
  • by david hall
Days Before Convention, Activists Sue Police Over Violence at DNC Headquarters Protest

D.C. police assaulted Gaza war protesters and strangled them with their own keffiyehs, a lawsuit alleges.