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It’s a racially charged photo the Chicago Police Department didn’t want the public to see: two white cops posing with rifles as they stand over a black man lying on his belly with deer antlers on his head.
But a Cook County judge has refused to keep secret the shocking image of former Officers Timothy McDermott and Jerome Finnigan kneeling with what the police department says is an unidentified African-American drug suspect.
Believed to have been taken in a West Side police station between 1999 and 2003, the Polaroid photo was given to the city by the feds in 2013 and resulted in McDermott, a clout-heavy cop, being fired last year by the police board in a 5-to-4 vote. The four dissenters said McDermott should only have been suspended. But a majority of the board wrote that “appearing to treat an African-American man not as a human being but as a hunted animal is disgraceful and shocks the conscience.”
Funny maybe, stupid definitely. If I'd been the C.O., I'd have suspended them for lack of judgment. Not to mention the potential damage resulting to the image of their department from taking photos like this. What was the name of that prison in Baghdad?
I find it kind of a sad statement that if you take an embarrassing photo you can be fired but if you kill someone all is forgiven.
Oh I know -- what is the world coming to? A couple of white cops can't even dress a black man like an animal and stand over him with rifles like a trophy kill anymore.
If you ask me, things started going downhill when they started letting them vote.
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