McConnell won't raise the debt ceiling, that scumbag!
Not one House republican voted for it, all scum!
Police reform is dead, a waste of 8 months...
Before off-duty police shooting, Chicago officer had long complaint record. Should the city pay?
By Robert Klemko
Today at 6:00 a.m. EDT
CHICAGO — Even before off-duty Chicago police officer Patrick Kelly fired a bullet into his friend Michael “Mikey” LaPorta’s skull, LaPorta’s family members wondered why Kelly still had his gun and badge.
LaPorta’s mother said Kelly, who had been LaPorta’s college roommate, regularly used racial slurs to describe suspects when he told stories about life on the beat. Once, he said he’d beaten a suspect so badly that he asked his partner to punch him in the face after the fact, so he could claim that the suspect had injured him first.
“Why would you do something like that?” Patricia “Patti” LaPorta asks today. “Why would you brag about it?”
No one in the family ever reported Kelly, who was the subject of 19 misconduct allegations before the January 2010 shooting. They figured nothing would be done, having grown up in a blue-collar, southwest Chicago neighborhood where lots of people work for the city, many as police officers, and the badge is often seen as a shield from public scrutiny.
Then, after a night of drinking in their neighborhood, Kelly turned his gun on LaPorta, permanently crippling him.
LaPorta sued the city, and a federal jury awarded him $44.7 million, saying Chicago city government should be held liable even though Kelly was not working when he fired his gun. The city successfully appealed. This month, LaPorta filed a petition for certiorari to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to reinstate the verdict.
Chicago ordered to pay $44.7 million for keeping officer on street after off-duty shooting
That the gun and ammunition used to paralyze LaPorta, 41, was issued by the police department is of little relevance in the case. Instead, LaPorta’s attorneys argue that a long-standing culture of corruption within the department enabled Kelly to behave violently toward the public with impunity throughout his career. His service record and the department’s failure to act made the city financially responsible for his off-duty behavior, LaPorta’s attorneys say in their petition.
more:
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