Whoa! Chicago PD selling arms collected during buyback programs? Aren't those supposed to be destroyed?
That's a gun running operation, in my view.
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A Chicago woman is suing the city's police department, alleging that it helped to arm the teenager who shot her two years ago.
Twanda Willingham was shot in the leg with a Glock 21 pistol in August of last year, about eight months after the gun was handed over to the Chicago Police Dpeartment during a "buyback" event at St. Sabina Church. As Fox 32 reports:
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"CPD Officers are also not immune to the allure of Glock pistols," the lawsuit says. "CPD Officers assigned to work the Turn-In event at St. Sabina remarked on how good the Glock 21 pistol looked.
CPD Officers who were not working the buyback event at St. Sabina showed up at the tactical team office to get a look at the Glock 21 pistol."
Willingham's lawsuit says an officer or officers took the gun from the station and sold it or gave it to someone. Willingham names Sgt. Robert Brown, who oversaw the buyback event, and other, "unknown" police officers as defendants along with the city of Chicago.
The defendants tried to cover up the gun theft, according to the suit. A tag identifying the Glock had been slipped onto another gun, and an envelope for that gun was later found in the trash.
The lawsuit notes that the name of Officer Krystal Rivera was placed on those inventory records even though "she had nothing to do with the recovery of the guns, in an attempt to make it more difficult to track the Glock 21 pistol's disappearance and hinder recovery efforts."
That's a gun running operation, in my view.
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