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CPD cops posed for photo standing over black man dressed in antlers
http://chicago.suntimes.com ^ | 5/26/15 | Frank Main and Kim Janssen

Posted on 05/28/2015 2:59:14 PM PDT by BBell

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.”

McDermott, who has been driving a truck to support his family, is now appealing his dismissal in court.

Even though police Supt. Garry McCarthy moved to fire McDermott, attorneys for the police department and McDermott both asked Judge Thomas Allen to keep the photo under seal earlier this year.

They said they wanted to protect the privacy of the unidentified African-American man. Allen denied their request in March. The Sun-Times recently obtained a copy of the photo in the court file.

Federal prosecutors gave the photo to police investigators in 2013 about two years after Finnigan — the notorious other cop in the picture — was sentenced to 12 years in prison for leading a crew of rogue cops in robberies, home invasions and other crimes.

The photo comes to light as conflicts in recent months between white police officers and black suspects

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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: antlers; blackman; chicago; corruption; cpd; huntingtrophy; illinois; jeromefinnigan; morons; racist; racistmorons; timothymcdermott; trophy
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To: BBell

Life. Cops are citizens held to the same laws as the poor guy with the antlers. They are not a military occupying force.


41 posted on 05/28/2015 7:05:49 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: BBell
How come the "drug suspect" isn't handcuffed?

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

If they don't know in what year it was taken, how do they know the third guy was a "unidentified drug suspect?"

How did the feds come upon a polaroid photo of this? It's not like email that gets blasted to millions in a short time that anyone can get their hands on... polaroids are one of a kind.

42 posted on 05/28/2015 10:08:47 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: BBell
Finnigan — the notorious other cop in the picture — was sentenced to 12 years in prison for leading a crew of rogue cops in robberies, home invasions and other crimes.

That's Chicago for you... if you can't beat ,em, join ,em...?

43 posted on 05/28/2015 10:10:40 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

The whole thing is silly


44 posted on 05/28/2015 10:50:20 PM PDT by BBell (Pacifists are the parasites of Freedom)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
With you as their "friend", I can see why.

Not at all. Every time they would attempt to bring the subject up, I would attempt to change it to something else. I had no desire to talk about racism when I felt there were more serious problems in the world at the time.

Unfortunately, the subject would simply not go away.

Your post is nothing more than reeking of "racial sensitivity" and seeing color first.

It is an observation that I have known many people who see the world in exactly this way. If you get them off the topic of "racism" they are good people, but once they get into grievance mode, they are insufferable.

I saw the pic as three friends posing for a silly photo, perhaps a bit of brew in the mix having a great time, you see it as two white guys and a black, nuff said.

Obviously you have been spared much contact with the grievance mongers, but I suspect your experience is the outlier and mine is closer to the norm.

45 posted on 05/29/2015 6:43:08 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: DiogenesLamp

To sum up your response, I pick my friends.


46 posted on 05/29/2015 1:25:41 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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