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May 10
As Lightfoot ponders a fix, city’s handling of fatal shootings by cops continues to violate state law
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Frank Main, Fran Spielman, and Tom Schuba
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is violating state law by conducting investigations into whether Chicago cops should be criminally prosecuted for fatal shootings, according to documents and sources. Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been sitting on a consultant’s recommendations to fix the problem since July, records show.
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May 7
Massive hack exposes emails from top Lightfoot officials
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The emails were posted online on April 19 by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a nonprofit whistleblower group similar to WikiLeaks, and include tens of thousands of emails from city officials.