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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Sophie Sherry

Chicago cop who pulled woman by her hair and knelt on her neck falsely claimed someone in her car was armed with hammer, oversight agency finds

Mia Wright Chicago Police COPA Civilian Office of Police Accountability
Mia Wright said a police officer grabbed her out of her car by her hair and knelt on her neck outside Brickyard Mall. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

A Chicago police officer accused of dragging a woman by her hair out of a car and kneeling on her neck falsely claimed that someone in the car had just looted a store and was armed with a hammer, according to a civilian oversight agency.

“Officer (David) Laskus fabricated the existence of the hammer to justify his actions,” the Civilian Office of Police Accountability states in a 22-page report released Thursday about the confrontation in the parking lot of Brickyard Mall on May 31, 2020.

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