Documentary evidence, please. I believe nothing that comes from a government employee without rock-solid proof to back it up."
http://abc7chicago.com/news/chicago-cop-says-she-feared-using-gun-while-being-beaten/1543015/
A nearby business captured surveillance video of the incident. The owner didn't see the incident firsthand, but saw how the incident unfolded on the surveillance video."It is terrible. It is total disregard for law enforcement. They put their lives forward every day for us and to see somebody do this, to pummel the police officer is terrible. It is a terrible thing," business owner Louie Rainone said.
Is a local TV station report and a local businessman who saw surveillance video it enough?
> Is a local TV station report and a local businessman who saw surveillance video it enough?
Nope.
The surveillance video that accompanies the story just shows three people beating up one, it’s so low resolution and so short in duration that you can’t even tell if there are cops involved at all or what is happening.
Which is REALLY REALLY ODD given that a little research shows this particular business has a security camera system with much much higher resolution.
Same location, same business, which you can confirm by reading the hat of the man labeled “Merchant” in the news story.
And if you look into “Louis Rainone”, you find a few interesting things. One, he doesn’t appear to exist anywhere outside of this story. Two, he is the spitting image of one John Joseph Rainone, convicted mobster (as was his father). Three, there is a murder convict of the same name and same town from 1986.
I call BS on this story. This is a cover-up of a CPD screw-up.