Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, May 17, 2016.
City want to ban mention of CPD “code of silence” in courtroom case
Two Chicago Police officers filed a whistle-blower lawsuit in 2012 claiming that they were given the cold shoulder for breaking the police “code of silence” by reporting other cops’ wrongdoing. Now lawyers for the city are trying to ban the phrase “code of silence” from the courtroom, even though Mayor Rahm Emanuel mentioned the police department “code of silence” in his post-Laquan McDonald scandal speech to the City Council. [Sun-Times]
