I remember newspaper stories about him speeding from bar to bar with his body guards, who carried real Uzis, and intimidated people with their weapons.
His funeral home would throw dead children in the dumpster behind the building just as soon as the services were over in order to resell the coffins.
Officer's best friend, and biggest supporter, was a cocaine-dealing minister of a church with eight members, who had a Lincoln Continental for every day of the week, and millions in the church fund.
The state police had to come in and take over East St. Louis to clean up Officer's mess. Voters gave him the boot after his first term.
WOW!!!! Yes, I can remember over the years seeing a few exposes of this town on TV as being unbelievably irretrievably corrupt and beyond the pale, with EVERYTHING broken down, no municipal services, high unemployment, blight, crime, just general awfulness, and also some refernces to Mr. Officer, all negative but none as colorful and vivid as yours. He is NOT the kind of "Democrat" you want on your side. Apparently he's looking for a way to re-establish himself on what he sees as the likely winning side this time around. Wouldn't trust this guy any farther than I could throw me. He should not be entertained or encouraged.