In Pinex’s case, the officers who stopped his vehicle testified that they did so because it matched a auto involved in a shooting they had heard about over their police radio. The Pinex family will receive a new trial in their lawsuit against the city.
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The narrative of events told by Mosqueda and his partner, Officer Gildardo Sierra, held that their dispatcher had described an Oldsmobile sedan with a and armed occupants inside – evidence given as the reason the officers pulled Pinex over in the first place, and why they approached his auto with their guns drawn.
Specifically, U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang ruled that Marsh had intentionally concealed evidence in a 2015 trial that culminated in a jury finding that two Chicago Police officers were justified in killing Darius Pinex during a January 2011 traffic stop.
Lawyers for the torture victims, Flint Taylor and Joey Mogul, said Chicago’s “holistic model” approach should be a model for other cities, but that the significant dollar amounts for settlements have not ended the “long reign of police abuse”.
“Attorneys who might be tempted to bury late-surfacing information need to know that, if discovered, any verdict they win will be forfeited and their clients will pay the price”, the judge wrote.
Chicago’s embattled mayor, Rahm Emanuel, supported the reparations package in April. Chang also accused the Law Department of poorly training and overseeing city attorneys, creating an environment that hampered production of records essential to prosecuting cases of police misconduct. Emanuel, however, said he does not believe the Law Department is part of a culture of cover-ups on police shootings.
A city law department spokesman said he did not have a way to leave a message for Marsh seeking comment. She also said she will establish a dedicated community outreach manager, whose role will be to work directly with complainants, witnesses and community members. “I don’t think they cared that [Pinex] got killed, they didn’t care what the truth was and they didn’t care they cheated [with the evidence]”. Prosecutors charged the officer, who is white, with first-degree murder in McDonald’s death, just hours before the dashcam video was released.
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Emanuel said Tuesday that chief counsel Stephen Patton is handling “all the pieces” when it comes to any possible review of cases handled by Jordan Marsh. The embattled mayor accused Governor Bruce Rauner with holding Chicago public school children “hostage” for refusing state aid to CPS unless the mayor agrees to pro-business, anti-union reforms. He said he will not be stepping down. The Associated Press notes there is no current law that allows for his recall. And the calls for his resignation have largely come from grassroots activists and residents, not from the city’s political powerbrokers.
