Chicago cops posed for photo standing over black man dressed in antlers

[chucksnee]

Originally Posted by fitzy24

It's just now being reported in the media. People are only commenting about it and not all outraged...so you can stop hitting your head.

Did you read this thread?

[blind melon]

Originally Posted by cremebrulee

if this is true, then I think the both of them should be fired, Period!

These are cops that make all cops look bad.....

Cant fire both one is in jail for home invasions and.shaking down dealers

[camaro69]

Originally Posted by whogo

Never known a white guy named Jerome, that's all.

HMMM??

Guess you're not a Seinfeld fan.

[Lyndarn]

Originally Posted by tillman7

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.”



CPD cops posed for photo standing over black man dressed in antlers | Chicago

This behaviour and attitude really isn't so different than what those Infantry guys who slaughter ( their enemy and then urinated on them in Irag)..than humiliate their perceived enemy!!

The sad issue is..LE has become an army against their own citizens and react with glee when their Perceived Enemy is brought down...And YES...This certainly ISN'T how any civil police force should be acting..Bad enough war forces respond that way..BUT in Civilian Society?????

There's something that gone very wrong in "Moral Compass" in social interactions...I'm sick to even think it's possible..But over the past year..have seen more than I wished to indicate such attitude by Police Forces!!

Sorry..But evidence doesn't lie..and because of their aberrant behaviours..ALL LE gets painted with same brush..Just like ALL perps get painted the same way... Laws of average simply belies that theory..NO way ALL are like being painted..either side..so why do political advocates paint it this way?......Ohhh I get it..it gets Votes

[nana053]

Originally Posted by dsjj251

its interesting being on the other side of this.

Everyone is overreacting. When i heard about this, i thought it was a photo of the officers arresting someone and taking the pictures.

This was 3 willing participants being funny and taking a picture. Nothing more.

I believe "buck" may be in the same category as "gypped" where it may have started out as a racial epithet but has long sense evolved into a word simply meaning young muscular men.

What evidence do you have that he was a willing participant other than the word of the two officers who are not really credible.

CPD cops posed for photo standing over black man dressed in antlers | Chicago

Officer Jerome Finnigan, pictured on the left, is in prison for ordering a hit on another officer. Known as one of the most corrupt officers in the history of the Chicago Police Department, details of his crimes—as part of the department's secretive Special Operations Section—continue to emerge to this day.

Officer Timothy McDermott, pictured on the right, was able to not only get away with the consequences of this offensive photo for more than a decade, but the consequences of a long trail of corruption during his time with the SOS and as a detective for the CPD.

McDermott served in the same corrupt private squad, the SOS, with Finnigan for four years. During that time, he was named in four different lawsuits.

The report against McDermott shows the great lengths so many people went to protect him.

In this lawsuit, Terrance Thompson, who had his sentence vacated after all the officers who arrested him were convicted for corruption, names McDermott as one of the officers who planted a gun on him and illegally detained him. As a consequence of a lawsuit, Thompson was eventually awarded $400,000 for the three years he spent in prison.

Note that McDermott is well-connected. He is the stepson of the former Chicago Police Deputy, Thomas Byrne.