A Chicago police officer who has been the target of dozens of complaints and investigations by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability has been stripped of his police powers this week and put on desk duty.
CBS2 reported COPA recently finished a report on claims by a woman that Officer James Hunt broke her car window during downtown protests and lifted her by her head. The city paid out a $100,000 settlement after COPA found Hunt falsely arrested Kenneth Lee in 2018.
“That’s when he said, ‘I have a Snapchat too,’” Lee said. “I said, ‘No, you don’t’. He said, “Yeah, I do, it’s called I f***** your mama.”
CBS2 reports COPA found it was an illegal arrest. One the city settled with Lee for 100 thousand dollars. The station brought that and other complaint against Hunt to the attention of Superintendent David Brown last year … after Hunt was on a community safety team.
The station says Hunt hasn’t served a suspension recommended by COPA because he’s fighting it in arbitration. The head of the police union called it despicable and vindictive the department stripped Hunt of his police powers the day before he was to start training.