City lawyers try (again) to block Mayor Lori Lightfoot deposition in CPD whistleblower case

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City lawyers try (again) to block Mayor Lori Lightfoot deposition in CPD whistleblower case
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In 2017, Sgt. Khalil Muhammad shot 18-year-old Ricardo Hayes near his home in Morgan Park. Another officer said he refused superiors’ requests to change reports to say that Muhammad was a “victim” of an aggravated assault by Hayes, his lawsuit states.

to answer questions under oath in a Chicago police whistleblower lawsuit, lawyers for the city are asking a judge to block the deposition.

The deposition was to take place by Oct. 15, but lawyers for the city have filed a motion asking Donnelly to reverse his order from September. A hearing on the motion is set for Oct. 11. In 2016, Lightfoot chaired then Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Police Accountability Task Force, a blue-ribbon panel set up to investigate the Chicago Police Department soon after the release of video showing CPD Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. Among the findings in a report issued in 2016 was that a "code of silence" existed within the department and was a key factor in the CPD’s inability to hold officers accountable for misconduct.in Morgan Park.

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