While the report acknowledged several of the department’s strides, it highlighted a lack of community input in those policies and “outdated concepts and tactics” in CPD’s plans to manage crow…
Police officers guarding the Trump International Hotel & Tower hold back protesters during a rally and march to remember the May 25 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, in the Loop on May 30, 2020, in Chicago.
That lack of preparedness endangered cops and protestors and allowed some of those accused of serious crimes to evade arrest or accountability, the review and CPD’s own after-action report concluded.Cops were ordered to start their tours of duty at the parking lot instead of their normal district station, hindering them from picking up certain pieces of equipment.
“There’s better infrastructure in place for a coordinated city response, interdepartmental plans, clarity in the new proposed policies around mass arrest procedures and use of force reporting,” Witzburg told the Tribune. “I also think there are some areas of concern, candidly.” CPD’s guidance also “continues to permit the use of OC spray on passive resistors in a mass gathering setting,” she said, while other departments, like Philadelphia, “have very explicit guidance” that pepper spray “shall not be used” in a First Amendment gathering against “passive resistors.”
“When we have a group of peaceful protestors who are sitting, and even if they’re breaking the law, we do not spray those people… We have a different way of removing those people without using that level of force,” Snelling said. “If we have an all-out fight where people are attacking police officers or attacking each other and we need to use OC spray, that call will be made by a higher authority based on the totality of circumstances and what’s occurring in the field.
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