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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Tom Schuba

How an unjustified arrest exposed glaring failures in CPD’s response to unrest that followed George Floyd’s killing

Protesters square off with Chicago police at Kinzie and State streets May 30, 2020, during a protest of George Floyd’s murder. (Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

An investigation into a brutal and unjustified arrest during George Floyd protests in Chicago two years ago has raised new questions about the Chicago Police Department’s response to the days of unrest and implicated a commander and two officers in the filing of a false report.

The officer who made the arrest, James Hunt, is accused of beating a woman who drove toward another officer on the night of May 30, 2020, in the first block of West Kinzie Street.

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