Dan Mihalopoulos | WBEZ
Investigative reporter, WBEZ Government & Politics Team
“I find it offensive he’s actually running for judge,” said a lawyer for the mother of one of the men who was killed.
Evanston, Wilmette homeowners claim the city acted unlawfully, blast “commercialization” of the new football field the university plans to build.
The move by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office comes weeks after WBEZ and the Sun-Times identified officers who appeared on leaked membership rolls for the anti-government group.
The policy was approved Monday after Chicago police investigated but took little action against cops with connections to far-right groups including the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Three Percenters.
The Park district’s inspector general found Solis failed to report a sexual harassment complaint from an employee, after a WBEZ news report.
The Stephenson County sheriff says Chief Deputy Andrew Schroeder’s association with Oath Keepers was “brief” and that he is an “exemplary” cop. Other officials in the county remain concerned.
The Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability will vote Thursday on asking the city’s inspector general to investigate cops named on an Oath Keepers list.
Supt. Larry Snelling and other brass did not explain the department’s lack of action since a membership list was leaked two years ago.
The Oath Keepers’ membership rolls included an Illinois state trooper, a campus cop for the University of Illinois Chicago and an officer in a village known as “America’s First Black Town.”