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Adam Hollingsworth, who gained national fame and adoration last year attending protests and community events on horseback, wanted to call Lightfoot as a character witness. Lightfoot’s office last summer recruited Hollingsworth to be the “Census Cowboy” in a drive for census participation.
At the hearing, attorneys for the city painted him as just that — an attention-seeking officer willing to use profane and insulting language on social media and even file bogus case reports, without proper investigation, against the highest ranking department members, including then-superintendent Eddie Johnson for his participation in a 2018 peace march on the Dan Ryan Expressway.
Norris allegedly pulled out a gun and opened fire on the person, who was also at the amusement park, striking him three times — in the right side of the chest, the right shoulder and the right elbow, Berlin and Rivas said. Norris then fled, and was taken into custody at his home the next day, they said.
Rittenhouse, then a resident of north suburban Antioch, volunteered to patrol downtown Kenosha amid turmoil surrounding the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, who was left partially paralyzed after being shot by a white police officer during a domestic disturbance call days earlier. State and federal prosecutors later declined to charge the officer with any wrongdoing.
“I was in the corner and I thought I just jammed my wrist, so I finished practice, went home, was icing it,” Jones said. “The next day, came in and showed the trainers what was going on. They tried to tape it and they said if my tendon had stayed in place, I’d be OK.
An officer also told police dispatch that police were going after the Nissan because they believed someone inside had a gun, even though police had only seen one of the passengers shrug his shoulder in a way that suggested he had a firearm, city attorney Jeff Levine told aldermen Monday. Police saw no gun, and Callaway’s family argued making that assertion was also reckless.
“Look this is what is going on, I’m trying to find out everybody whom (prosecutors) are trying to grab, and when they grab ’em I’m going to use them as my witnesses,” Spann told one associate in July, according to prosecutors. “I don’t give a f—- I’m already a step ahead of them.”
Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, faces five felonies for shooting three people, two fatally, during Kenosha’s civil unrest in August 2020. Judge Bruce Schroeder has allowed the panel to consider offenses less serious for two of the five charges but only if jurors opt to acquit the defendant of the more serious corresponding charge. The judge also approved the prosecution’s request for a provocation instruction. Such an instruction would ask the jury to consider whether the defendant provoked the confrontation. If the jury agrees, it could weaken Rittenhouse’s self-defense claim.
Black Bench Chicago founder Alex Sims applauds other speakers as the organization’s first cohort of graduates gathers Nov. 14 during an event at Tree House in River North. The organization launched in the spring of 2021 with the goal of training a new generation of Black leaders in politics, government, policy and advocacy. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune)
Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif. Intense demand for products has led to a backlog of container ships outside the nation’s two largest ports along the Southern California coast. (Noah Berger/AP)