Residents, community activists and elected officials on Sunday called on Mayor Brandon Johnson to fire police officers with ties to the Oath Keepers extremist group and form a task force to address the problem.
Those gathered at Movement on Montrose, 2951 W. Montrose in Irving Park, urged the mayor to act on the Office of the Inspector General’s recommendations for the task force and to reopen the probe into the eight officers, saying they didn’t trust the CPD investigation.
“The OIG’s office has compared this scandal to a time in the 1960s when a CPD officer was fired for being a KKK member,” said Grace Patino of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, one of the organizers of the event. “Make no mistake, nothing about this situation is normal or should be made to feel normal.”
