MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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New video shows Chicago cops dragging, punching and tasing Public School student
By artappraiser on Fri, 04/12/2019 - 9:22pm |By Matthew Hendrickson @ Chicago Sun Times, April 11, VIDEO @ link
A new surveillance video shows Chicago police officers push and drag a student down a set of stairs at Marshall High School on the West Side before punching her and shocking her with a stun gun multiple times.
The video, obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times, appears to contradict the officers’ statements on how the incident unfolded, including that the student initiated the violent encounter — again raising questions of the oversight, training and stationing of police officers in Chicago Public Schools.
The two officers involved in the incident also held the student down while stepping on her chest, but they didn’t seek help from her father or other school personnel who were nearby, according to an amended lawsuit filed Thursday by the girl’s attorney, Andrew M. Stroth [....]
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https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/cps-video-student-tasing-new-footage-police/
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