A trial begins Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging Chicago police brass demoted a detective after he refused to clear a fellow officer in a 2017 shooting.
Testimony begins Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging Chicago Police Department brass demoted a detective after he refused to clear a fellow officer in the 2017 shooting of an unarmed, teenager with autism.
Lambert claims he had resisted pressure from his superiors to list Muhammad as the "victim" of an assault by the 134-pound Hayes, whom Muhammad shot twice as the teen wandered around the Morgan Park neighborhood about 5 a.m. on Aug. 13. Muhammad was eventually suspended by the department for six months over the shooting, and the city paid out $2.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of Hayes.
Lambert said he saw no cause for Muhammad to open fire on Hayes, who was hit twice by bullets fired by Muhammad, though superiors asked him to change reports to paint the officer as a "victim" of an "aggravated assault" by Hayes.Lambert believed strongly that there was no justification for the shooting, which was captured on surveillance camera and showed Muhammad firing from inside his car as the teen was several yards away.
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