Chicago police Twitter account’s ‘like’ of anti-trans tweet prompts internal affairs probe

Activists, including Brave Space Alliance, present the city with a report card on trans rights at a rally on Trans Day of Visibility in Daley Plaza, Thursday afternoon, March 31, 2022. Calls for a boycott of Anheuser-Busch products grew after the company did a promotion with transgender actress Dylan Mulvaney. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file)

Internal affairs investigators are looking into a report that the official Twitter account for the Chicago Police Department liked an anti-trans post by a county music singer.

A spokeswoman for the department confirmed Thursday that a complaint was being investigated by the department’s Bureau of Internal Affairs.