Testimony begins Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging Chicago Police Department brass demoted a detective after he refused to clear a fellow officer in the 2017 shooting of an unarmed, autistic teenager.
brass demoted a detective after he refused to clear a fellow officer in the 2017 shooting of an unarmed, autistic teenager.
Lambert claims he had resisted pressure from his superiors to list Muhammad as the "victim" of an assault by the 134-pound Hayes, whom Muhammad shot twice as the teen wandered around the Morgan Park neighborhood about 5 a.m. on Aug. 13. Muhammad was eventually suspended by the department for six months over the shooting, and the city paid out $2.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of Hayes.
"How many of you immediately think [of] CPD, yeah, it’s kind of sketchy?" city attorney J.T. Wilson III asked one panel of prospective jurors, nodding as about a third of the people in the jury box raised their hands.Lambert said he saw no cause for Muhammad to open fire on Hayes, who was hit twice by bullets fired by Muhammad, though superiors asked him to change reports to paint the officer as a "victim" of an "aggravated assault" by Hayes.
The head of Area South Detectives at the time, Rodney Blisset, also has sued the department, claiming that he too was demoted because he disagreed when city attorneys said Blisset had signed off on Lambert’s demotion because Lambert was "causing problems."
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