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Chicago mayor fires city’s top cop over ‘ethical lapses’
ABC News ^ | 12 02 2019 | SOPHIA TAREEN

Posted on 12/02/2019 3:47:09 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired the city’s retiring police superintendent Monday, citing “ethical lapses” that included telling lies about a recent incident in which Eddie Johnson was found asleep at the wheel of his car after having drinks.

Named to the job in the wake of a police shooting that killed a black teenager, Johnson was dismissed after the mayor reviewed an inspector general’s report and video evidence related to the night in mid-October when officers discovered him unconscious in his SUV. He initially blamed his failure to take his blood pressure medication and said he had a few drinks with dinner earlier in the evening.

The officers did not conduct any sobriety tests and let their boss drive home. It was unclear if they would be disciplined.

Johnson “engaged in a series of actions that are intolerable for any leader or position of trust, particularly the head of the Chicago Police Department,” the mayor said. His conduct was “not only unbecoming but demonstrates a series of ethical lapses and flawed decision-making.”

Lightfoot said the police chief of the nation’s third-largest city repeatedly lied about the events that unfolded the night of Oct. 16 and morning of Oct. 17.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: chicago; eddiejohnson; georgesoros; illinois; jussiesmollett; kimfoxx; lorilightfoot; michelleobama; rahmemanuel; smollett
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To: yesthatjallen

That’s racist! Oh, wait...


21 posted on 12/02/2019 4:12:53 PM PST by bwest
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To: yesthatjallen

The Chief shouldn’t have spoken ill of Jesse Smollett.


22 posted on 12/02/2019 4:13:28 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Pot meets kettle.


23 posted on 12/02/2019 4:16:06 PM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: yesthatjallen

From the article: “At a hastily called news conference, the mayor declined to offer details “out of deference” to Johnson’s family”

How about the right of the citizens to know about the corrupt behavior of their public officials? Likely the family knows all about his behavior.


24 posted on 12/02/2019 4:16:28 PM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on i)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I am familiar with Cal only. Dismissal from state service can take your pension, but I believe you get your contribution

However this is from FindLaw Makes sense you can’t take what that person put in. Once vested you would have property right to the pension.

“Once a person is vested in a pension plan, he or she has the right to keep it. So, if you’re fired after you’ve become vested in the plan, you wouldn’t lose your pension. It’s also possible to be partially vested in a plan, which would mean that you could keep the portion that has vested even if you’re fired.”


25 posted on 12/02/2019 4:16:36 PM PST by olesigh
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To: yesthatjallen

affirmative Action COP, Affirmative Action Mayor. And one would expect some other outcome?


26 posted on 12/02/2019 4:19:38 PM PST by technically right
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I doubt that. I’m sure a decent lawyer could get him his pension.


27 posted on 12/02/2019 4:21:26 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: technically right

Or, the city of Chicago is so broke that she just tried to cut him out of his pension since they don’t’ have any money anyway!


28 posted on 12/02/2019 4:23:59 PM PST by princess leah (Princess Leah)
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To: gibsonguy

I wish people would inform themselves instead of making stuff up. The news stories make it clear that this firing does not affect his pension. Nor should it.


29 posted on 12/02/2019 4:24:20 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; All

That Trib article doesn’t cover his sleeping in his car but his son’s kidney problems. Where was he found when sleeping in his car exact location ? Heard it was 34th and Aberdeen which is in Bridgeport. Is that right ? Lived 3 blocks down before enlisting in Army


30 posted on 12/02/2019 4:27:13 PM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record hoping some might read and pass around)
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To: bigbob

As I thought. I figured there was no way he loses his pension and I’m betting it’s a lot no than most working people make.


31 posted on 12/02/2019 4:28:22 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: HighSierra5
Ethical lapses

Can't swing a dead cat in Chicago without hitting one of those....

32 posted on 12/02/2019 4:35:45 PM PST by Kenny Bania (Ovaltine? Why not call it Roundtine?)
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To: bigbob

Groot! LOL!


33 posted on 12/02/2019 4:38:33 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: bigbob

Correct Sir. Second City Cop blog is the responses from the folks who show up for duty each day. Chicago politics and the states attorney make enforcement mute. Also visit Hey Jackass website for documentation of 40,000 homicides going back to Mayor Daley the first.


34 posted on 12/02/2019 4:46:08 PM PST by COWBELL
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To: yesthatjallen

What percentage of public officials in Chicago don’t have ethical lapses?


35 posted on 12/02/2019 4:49:28 PM PST by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He was sleeping with one of his assistants and tried to cover it up.


36 posted on 12/02/2019 4:57:35 PM PST by EC Washington
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To: bigbob

he will not receive the Superindent Pension - but will receive his pension based on his last rank.


37 posted on 12/02/2019 5:00:02 PM PST by EC Washington
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To: gibsonguy

I doubt that. I’m sure a decent lawyer could get him his pension.
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How can you be so sure that a DECENT lawyer would be willing to represent him?
He probably needs to go shopping for “the other kind” if he wants to stick with the Chicago way.


38 posted on 12/02/2019 5:15:07 PM PST by Honest Nigerian
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To: yesthatjallen

Superintendent “Special Ed” was always going to be the fall guy for Mayor “Groot.”

It was only a matter of timing.


39 posted on 12/02/2019 5:18:01 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: dynachrome

I didn’t know. Take your sons kidney and then drink. Wow.


40 posted on 12/02/2019 5:27:06 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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