JOLIET, Ill. (CBS)– Joliet police Sgt. Javier Esqueda blew the whistle on the death of Eric Lurry in police custody, and now he has been stripped of his police powers and placed on administrative leave.
Meanwhile Tuesday evening, there were growing calls to fire the two officers involved in Lurry’s death, and sources said the Joliet City Manager has quit.
As CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini reported, Sgt. Esqueda said he thought he could lose his badge over all this, and he did lose it.
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From Dave Savini:
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And yet there are people all over who keep saying there’s nothing wrong with police culture – its just a few bad apples.Report
And in a related story:
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…weird how he’s supposedly ‘under investigation’. Doesn’t _he_ get qualified immunity? Yes, he allegedly got ‘unauthorized access to video evidence that was involved in a criminal investigation’, but have the courts ever ruled explicitly on a cop doing that while wearing the exact same hat as him?Report
I saw this opinion piece and immediately thought of a handful of cases where officers did the right thing and then got fired or disciplined for doing so.
Then I read the opinion piece and it mentioned a couple of cases that I had heard of and a couple that I hadn’t.
Which kinda undercut the piece, if you ask me.
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