Thursday, July 16, 2020

Lightfoot continues to attack the man after he is gone for 7 months.

Eddie Johnson got police escort home after found slumped over the wheel, city inspector general says
The former Chicago police superintendent was fired Dec. 2 after Mayor Lori Lightfoot said he lied about the October incident.

By Frank Main and Fran Spielman Jul 16, 2020, 10:08am CDT


Former Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson. He was fired in December by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who said Johnson had lied to her about an incident in October. Sun-Times file



After then-police Supt. Eddie Johnson was found slumped over the wheel of his car last fall on the South Side, a police supervisor followed his intoxicated boss home as Johnson rolled through a stop sign and turned into the wrong lane, according to a new city inspector general’s report.

Inspector General Joseph Ferguson’s report offers the most detail yet of the scandal that led to Johnson’s firing on Dec. 2. He was demoted to lieutenant and retired.

Johnson lied to the mayor when he said he had a “couple of drinks” but pulled over at 34thand Aberdeen because he felt ill, the report said. Johnson had received a kidney transplant in 2017.

Ferguson’s report, released Thursday, said Johnson and his female driver drank large quantities of rum at a downtown restaurant on the evening of Oct. 16. He drove to police headquarters and dropped her off, and she drove away.

He was in his car when someone called 911 to report a man asleep in his running vehicle. Officers arrived at 12:33 a.m. on Oct. 17. As has been previously reported, a cop walked to his window and asked “Sir, you alright?” and “You good, you have your ID?” and Johnson showed his ID through the window. “You just sitting here or you wanna go home?” the cop asked and Johnson said, “I’m good.” “You good, alright sir, you have a good night,” the cop responded.

The exchange was captured on the officer’s body camera, and the video was released by the city last month.

The inspector general’s report says a Chicago firefighter was on the other side of the car and asked “Hey, what’s going on?” and then walked away.

No field sobriety test was done on Johnson and the officer who spoke to him deactivated his body camera. At 12:38 a.m., two more police cars arrived on the scene and one called a dispatcher for a supervisor, who arrived at 12:43 a.m. in an unmarked car.

LEAVE HIM ALONE. LET HIM ENJOY HIS RETIREMENT IN PEACE.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous7/16/2020

    He should've retired the next day. Instead he went for the bigger pension, so, he should be pulled thru the mud

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  2. Anonymous7/16/2020

    Semantics? I read published portions of the Ferguson report on this incident and note that Johnson was referred to twice as "Mr. Eddie Johnson", not former Superintendent Eddie Johnson. Remember when Lightfoot had those initial press conferences on this and said words to the effect that "she didn't want to cause any embarrassment to his family"? What a crock of shit. You're absolutely right, she and Ferguson put his balls on the tee and took a 5 iron to them. What a vindictive piece of shit. Fooled me once, it won't happen again next election.

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