Chicago Police Department officials said that an officer who was investigated by the department for affiliating with a white nationalist organization and found to have given false statements about it will serve a 120-day suspension beginning next month.
Chicago police Superintendent David Brown during a news conference on April 27, 2022.
“We sent Superintendent Brown a letter encouraging him to examine the mediation agreement before approving it in light of the department’s findings that the member has made false and contradictory statements about his membership in a hate group,” Witzburg said at the hearing. “The superintendent approved the mediation agreement and finalized a suspension of 120 days for that member.”
In June 2022, the Department of Justice announced that a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned ancharging five members of the Proud Boys, including the group’s former national chairman, with seditious conspiracy and other charges for their actions before and during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
The allegations against Bakker are contained in two letters that the inspector general’s office sent to Chicago police officials, one in November 2020 and another just last month, in attempts to encourage them to take a closer look at the evidence they’d collected against Bakker.
According to the letter, evidence in the case showed that Bakker commented at least six times on a message group titled “Fxxx Antifa.” He allegedly told investigators that he attended discussions with the Proud Boys. The investigators also had screen shots of messages from the group showing that Bakker posted about meeting at a North Side pub and was part of another message string that included an invitation to the “2nd annual Chicago PB’s Patriot Picnic.
On Sept. 12 Witzburg’s office sent the department a request to review the case again, this time directly to Brown.
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