Gliniewicz’s death sparked a massive manhunt for the three suspects who would’ve been deemed responsible for the shooting. The three men were seen on a home security video system. This came after the late officer radioed in that he had been chasing after them on foot. One of the suspects in question was a Black male. After being held for investigation, all three of them were cleared.

What was initially assumed to be a homicide was later revealed that Joseph Gliniewicz staged his entire death out of fear that he would be severely punished for his embezzlement of thousands of dollars from a program called the Explorers, a group that mentors young people who aspire to be cops.

NBC News has reported the following information regarding the suicide on their website:

Gliniewicz, 52, was embezzling money through the program, funneling tens of thousands of dollars for personal purposes — including mortgage payments, travel expenses, gym memberships, adult websites and loans to associates, Lake County Major Crimes Task Force Commander George Filenko told reporters.

This incident has occurred at a time when the character of many cops have been proven to be highly questionable across the nation.

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Follow this link to see the newly released footage of the shooting.

Believed to have been taken in a West Side police station between 1999 and 2003, the Polaroid photo was given to the city by the feds in 2013 and resulted in McDermott, a clout-heavy cop, being fired last year by the police board in a 5-to-4 vote. The four dissenters said McDermott should only have been suspended. But a majority of the board wrote that “appearing to treat an African-American man not as a human being but as a hunted animal is disgraceful and shocks the conscience.”

Finnigan is a notoriously dirty ex-cop who was a member of the police department’s elite Special Operations Section (SOS) until 2006, when he was charged with leading a gang of fellow officers who robbed suspects, illegally invaded homes and stole thousands of dollars in cash. He’s now serving 12 years in federal prison.

This newly surfaced photo is further proof that we are in a new system of American Nazism and Melanoid people are being systematically targeted for genocide.

Dante Servin, a police officer in Chicago, was cleared of charges of involuntary manslaughter, reckless discharge of a firearm and reckless conduct after his involvement shooting and killing Rekia Boyd back in March of 2012. Boyd’s family is understandably outraged by the verdict. Ms. Boyd, a 22-year-old Black female, was spending time at Douglas Park (in Chicago) when she was shot in the head by Servin on that fateful day in March.

Judge Dennis Porter ruled that prosecutors failed to prove that Dante Servin acted recklessly, saying that Illinois courts have consistently held that anytime an individual points a gun at an intended victim and shoots, it is an intentional act, not a reckless one. He all but said prosecutors should have charged Servin with murder, not involuntary manslaughter.

Servin cannot be retried on a murder charge because of double-jeopardy protections, according to his attorney, Darren O’Brien.

For quite sometime now, there has been an unspoken assumption that Black men were the primary targets of police brutality, which in many instances is true. This past year alone has dispelled that notion, after the wrongful deaths of Melanoid women, children, elderly, and disabled at the hands of the police.

Here is an additional link to the story.

by B. Clark