The Chicago Police Board on Thursday voted to fire an officer who dragged a woman by her hair and knelt on her neck in an encounter that was captured on video and went viral.
In an 8-0 vote, officer David Laskus was found guilty of all administrative charges leveled against him — including using excessive force and making a false report — in the arrest of Mia Wright in the parking lot of Brickyard Mall on May 31, 2020.
