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Nearly five years after pleading guilty to a felony, Chicago cop remains on the force

Joseph DeRosa pleaded guilty to resisting and obstructing police. It’s supposed to bar him from being a cop in Illinois.

Chicago Sun-Times

Two AIADMK-era Bills among 13 pending in the Raj Bhavan, says Law Department

The Hindu

Johnson chooses former Daley buildings commissioner to serve as corporation counsel

Mary Richardson-Lowry, a teacher’s daughter, served as Chicago building commissioner, then school board president under former Mayor Richard M. Daley. Now, she is Mayor Brandon Johnson’s choice for one of the most trusted and sensitive positions in city government.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Woman awarded $2.9 million in botched Chicago police raid endorses Johnson for mayor

Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson “is committed to making sure that the trauma that I endured ... never happens to another person,” said Anjanette Young, whose home was raided by Chicago police in 2019.

Chicago Sun-Times

He defended the NYPD — then got arrested

Karl Ashanti represented NYC cops in civil-rights cases. Then he was charged with a crime he didn't commit

Salon

$5 million settlement advances for family of teen shot by Chicago police as he fled crash that followed pursuit

CHICAGO — A City Council committee voted in favor Monday of paying a $5 million settlement for the mother of a 17-year-old who was shot and killed by Chicago police officers while running away from a car crash in February 2019.

Chicago Tribune

Taxpayers shell out $250M in police-related settlements; new report slams city efforts to learn from those mistakes

“We are missing very expensive opportunities if we are not informing ourselves and improving practices and policies as a result of those settlements and judgments,” said Inspector General Deborah Witzburg.

Chicago Sun-Times

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NYC to appeal judge’s vaccination enforcement ruling, until then NYPD will comply with order

NEW YORK — New York City will enforce a judge’s order barring enforcement of the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the largest police union while the decision is appealed.

Tribune News Service

Response to queries on Siddha University Bill sent to Governor: Health Minister

Govt. sees no contradictions, says Ma. Subramanian

The Hindu

Editorial: Of masks and gags: The anti-toddler-mask-mandate attorney fired by NYC has a weak free speech case

Daniela Jampel, the on-maternity-leave attorney for the New York City Law Department fired after supposedly lying her way into a press conference Monday morning and grilling Mayor Eric Adams on the wrongheaded mask mandate for toddlers, wasn’t fired for espousing a political opinion that’s at odds with the official line.…

Tribune News Service

Anti-mask activist fired from city job for sneaking into mayor’s press conference to confront him

A judge’s ruling against the New York City mandate was repealed last week

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