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‘10-1! 10-1! I got shot in the head!’ screams 1 of 2 cops shot while in line at hot dog stand in Chicago

CHICAGO — One of two Chicago police officers who were shot early Friday while in line at Maxwell Street hot dog stand in Lawndale have been released from a hospital, the department said.

Chicago Tribune

2 Chicago officers wounded in shooting, suspect caught

Police say two Chicago police officers were shot and wounded by a gunman who dropped a handgun while waiting in line at a restaurant with one of the officers, picked it up and opened fire

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2 Chicago police officers shot on the West Side after gunman drops weapon in front of them, then opens fire

“I got shot in the head, I got shot in the head,” one of the wounded officers radioed.

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Police vow swift response to solve shooting of 12-year-old girl out celebrating birthday

“This was heinous, reckless, senseless and the gangs involved — and you know who you are— we’re coming after you,” CPD Supt. David Brown said at City Hall on Wednesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Arbitrator sides with city on cop vaccinations

Mayor Lori Lightfoot hopes at least some of the roughly 2,800 Chicago police officers who remain unvaccinated will now get their shots, leaving fewer officers subject to suspension or firing.

Chicago Sun-Times

Top cop says no evidence of misconduct in decision not to impound car of high-ranking chief after niece stopped in drug arrest

"Of course I wasn’t on the scene making any of these decisions," Supt. David Brown said at a news conference.

Chicago Sun-Times

Classic Mini Restomod Now Offered In America For A Cool $100,000

David Brown Automotive has a new importer for US buyers wanting a classic Mini with a modern makeover.

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Incredible images show area of Mars after Scottish beauty spot by NASA scientists

David Brown, a Formartine Area Ranger in Ellon, wrote to Dr. Abigail Fraeman, a research scientist at the Mars Science Laboratory.

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Top cop points to fewer carjackings in Chicago, but data shows the rate of arrests is down too

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said carjackings are down 20% in the first two months of the year, but they are still more than three times higher than before the pandemic began.

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Lanarkshire drug trafficker jailed for five-and-a-half years has conviction overturned

That's after the judge at Patrick Hattie's trial failed to give jurors proper instructions over a police interview

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2 teens — 1 on electronic monitoring — charged in boy’s fatal shooting as he walked home from school: police

A 15-year-old boy was walking home from school in Bronzeville on Tuesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot ties carjacking wave to remote learning

The CTU ripped the mayor’s claim: "Every child in our public schools in Chicago deserves an apology from the mayor today."

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Guard fired 20 shots while lying on ground— killing grandma 4 blocks away, prosecutors say

Victor Brown fired at a man who had shot him, although that man was already at least a block away at the time, Cook County prosecutors said in charging Brown with murder Friday. One of the bullets killed Bobbye Johnson as she walked in the 200 block of East 35th…

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CPD reassigning 320 officers in push for more arrests amid hiring slowdown and a spike in retirements

The latest reshuffling of officers has led some police supervisors to once again raise alarms about Supt. David Brown’s leadership.

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‘A textbook case of a hate crime.’ Man charged with painting swastikas on synagogue and on grounds of Jewish school, smashing windows at other synagogues

An attorney for Shahid Hussain, 39, said he had been diagnosed with "mental health issues." A judge ordered him held on $250,000 bail.

Chicago Tribune

Suspects charged in connection with fatal shooting of 8-year-old Chicago girl, top cop says

CHICAGO — A man and a 16-year-old boy have been charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega, who was shot in the head as she walked through Chicago's Little Village neighborhood with her mother this past weekend, Chicago police Superintendent David Brown announced.

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As a 16-year-old boy is charged with killing her young daughter, girl’s mom says she forgives him and calls him a victim, too

"To the aggressor, I forgive you," Aracelia Leanos said in a statement read at a news conference announcing charges. "You were a victim, too. As a 16-year-old, the community failed you, just like it failed my precious baby."

Chicago Tribune

Chicago police to saturate neighborhood where 8-year-old girl was fatally shot, top cop says

CHICAGO — Police will be increasing patrols in the Little Village neighborhood following Saturday’s fatal shooting of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega, Superintendent David Brown said at a news conference Monday.

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Police pursuing ‘promising leads’ in ‘almost speakable’ tragedy of 8-year-old girl’s shooting death: Lightfoot

At a news conference later Monday, CPD Supt. David Brown said gang conflicts in Little Village led to Melissa’s death, and "we will be relentless in our efforts to pursue any and all gangs involved with this tragic murder."

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CPD Supt. Brown touts successes, pushes back on malcontent command staff

Brown says brass who criticized him are unhappy with his efforts to reform CPD.

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Chicago Police Board votes to suspend officer for 2 years over 2018 shooting

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability initially recommended Officer Luigi Sarli be discharged from the department, but Supt. David Brown disagreed, calling for a just 180-day suspension.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lightfoot strongly backs top cop David Brown despite police supervisors’ lack of confidence in his leadership

"Supt. Brown is trying to change the culture of a police department where the status quo served a lot of people, but frankly didn’t serve the residents of the city in keeping them safe," the mayor said in a Zoom call from Washington D.C.

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Chicago police command staff carry just as much blame as their leader

Instead of owning these failures and finally upholding the oath they freely took by working to correct them, these high-ranking officials shift the blame upstairs to Supt. Brown.

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Afternoon Edition: Jan. 19, 2022

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

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CPD leaders say they’ve lost faith in Supt. Brown: ‘I can’t think of one member of the command staff that is willing to back him’

"The department has been in a constant state of reorganization since Brown arrived, which is evidence that he has no strategy and doesn’t know what he’s doing," one police supervisor said.

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