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Chicago Police Department leaders said Thursday they have decided not to punish any officers whose names appeared on the leaked membership list of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that played a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

“The investigation is closed and the allegations were not sustained,” a spokeswoman for the CPD said in a statement, declining to provide any documents from the internal probe.

The brief statement stood in stark contrast to Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling’s zero-tolerance vow to the City Council in October, after WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times revealed the misconduct records of cops with ties to the Oath Keepers.

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[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 111 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A white terrorist group filled with members of a white terrorist group? Truly shocking!

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months ago (1 children)

“There are very fine people on both sides.”

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 65 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Of course the department won't, they don't want to set the dangerous precedent of holding their fellow pigs accountable

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

Police unions are a cancer

But if you remove them from the force... Who will be left to do bad shit?

[–] 1800doctorb@lemmy.world 53 points 6 months ago

Sigh. The ol “We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing.”

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 49 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)
[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same as it ever was? (Same as it ever was.)

[–] TheJims@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

You might find yourself living in a fascist police state

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago

Chicago Police Department: To protect and serve bad apples?

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Fucking cowards. Protect and serve these nuts, cunts.

ACAB

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 6 months ago

They should be kicked off the force, but this is more in line with how police operate.

[–] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 6 months ago

Besides being racist, they were robbing and brutalizing people. Wish we could have found any sign of them being shitty.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 19 points 6 months ago

Some of those that work forces and all that

[–] DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz 14 points 6 months ago

sounds legit

[–] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Fun fact: Chicago's original telephone area code was 312, so with +1 country code, it's 1312.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Love how not just this cop but all black cops carry water for white supremacy. Sure law enforcement needs to be done, but they don't need racists, homo/transphobes, antisemites/islamophobes, ideological nationalists, or any other extremist piece of shit in their ranks, shit just further erodes public trust, just like this cop's statement and stance does.

If the US military gets rid of them the cops should too, and the US military now does, hence what Tommy Tuberville's promotion block was all about, because that scumbag wanted to reverse the ban on white supremacists and Nazis in the military because he said they were "patriots" too, fuck that noise.

Cops need need accountability, oversight, and standards, immediately.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Just out them publicly then

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Finally, proof that ya'llqaeada is in Chiraq.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

Imagine reading this sentence with no context.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

Interested ourselves... Blah, blah, blah...