City of Chicago lawyers had recommended the deal, arguing that taking the case to court would cost taxpayers several times as much money to defend with outside counsel.

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A tourist couple hit by a car fleeing Chicago police downtown and left ... killed by officers in a gunfight that followed a plainclothes police traffic stop last year. The lawsuit filed by Bryce ...

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While some felt settling the suit would have been cheaper than trial costs, others felt the city shouldn't settle because Dexter Reed allegedly fired at police first.

Protests over UCMed’s lack of a Level I adult trauma center beginning in 2010 resulted in student arrests and misconduct by an undercover UCPD officer, forcing the University to reevaluate its protest ...

Plainclothes officers stopped Reed in what ... Marty Quinn, 13th, invoked his grandfather at the end of the debate, a Chicago police officer who was shot on duty and died a few years later.

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