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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tom Schuba

Chicago cop avoided being fired after arrest in drunken Milwaukee bar fight. He was later hired by a suburban police department

Robert Pet when he was a Chicago police officer. (Chicago Police Department)

Chicago’s police oversight agency sought the dismissal of a Chicago police officer who lost his loaded gun during a drunken fight at a Milwaukee bar, but he was suspended instead and later left for a suburban police department.

Officer Robert Pet had traveled to Milwaukee nine days before Christmas in 2018, according to a report made public this week by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability. After having dinner, going to a concert and hanging out at a bar — all while toting a loaded gun — he went to another tavern.

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