After weeks of avoiding questions on the issue, Chicago police Supt. David Brown acknowledged Wednesday that he made the decision to pull officers off the street after they stopped a car belonging to the head of internal affairs during a drug bust.
Supt. David Brown acknowledged Wednesday that he made the decision to pull officers off the street after they stopped a car belonging to the head of internal affairs during a drug bust.
Other key questions remain. They include why the car, which belonged to Internal Affairs Chief Yolanda Talley,John Catanzara, head of the Fraternal Order of Police, wondered why rank-and-file officers got pulled off the street but their bosses didn’t. "The officers made those decisions," he said at the time. "And I have yet to see anything to show me that — I have mentioned in my comments that I will not go further on — that there was any misconduct."
In their phone call, Calderon also told Cato that when officers asked for the niece’s identification, she refused and told them "her aunt is their boss," according to the Feb. 2 "initiation report" that Cato sent Brown to let him know the matter was referred to the Civilian Office of Police Accountability for investigation.
But as first reported by a local TV station, that wasn’t true. Talley’s license was suspended last June after she failed to pay off a nearly $10,000 settlement that stemmed from a car crash three years earlier on the West Side, according to Cook County court records and the Illinois secretary of state’s office.
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