Two police officers in Chicago posed a suspect as if they were hunters and the suspect was a dead deer. They attached antlers to his head and took the photo. Ana Kasparian (The Point), Karomo Brown, and Becca Frucht hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
“Yesterday, a Cook County, Illinois, judge ordered the release of a photo of two Chicago police officers holding hunting rifles while standing over a black suspect dressed in antlers. One of the officers, Timothy McDermott, was fired last year over the picture, which was taken sometime between 1999 and 2003; the other cop, Jerome Finnigan, was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2011 for his role in a cop-lead gang responsible for a series of robberies.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that federal prosecutors gave the photo to police investigators in 2013. Last year, a police board voted 5 to 4 to fire McDermott (the four members who voted against firing him suggested a suspension instead).”
Read more here: http://gawker.com/chicago-cop-fired-for-posing-with-black-suspect-dressed-1707173176
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