Council May Approve Cop Abuse Settlement

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"The Fox brothers were stopped on the street in their neighborhood, a neighborhood where the defendant officers had been regularly stopping Polish immigrants coming home from the bars," said Amanda Antholt, an attorney with the law firm of Loevy & Loevy representing the Fox brothers.

"My clients were believed to be Polish, though they were not," Antholt said. "We could tell from the files the Chicago Police Department knew this was going on for years.

[Jennifer Hoyle] said she's unable to explain why the Fox brothers were targeted by the officers. "They weren't polish or eastern european immigrants. They weren't immigrants at all," she said.

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Council May Approve Cop Abuse Settlement

Two North Side men who were handcuffed and held in jail for three days and charged with multiple counts of aggravated battery, will learn today whether the city council will approve a settlement of $197,000, a...

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