CHICAGO -- Testimony begins Tuesday in a lawsuit alleging Chicago Police Department brass demoted a detective after he refused to clear a fellow officer in the 2017 shooting of an unarmed, teenager with autism.
Veteran CPD Officer Isaac Lambert claims he lost his job as a detective sergeant and was sent back to patrol just five days after he signed off on a police report on CPD's investigation of the shooting of Ricardo "Ricky" Hayes by CPD Officer Khalid Muhammad.
Lambert claims he had resisted pressure from his superiors to list Muhammad as the "victim" of an assault by the 134-pound Hayes, whom Muhammad shot twice as the teen wandered around the Morgan Park neighborhood about 5 a.m. on Aug. 13. Muhammad was eventually suspended by the department for six months over the shooting, and the city paid out $2.25 million to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of Hayes.
A jury in Lambert's case was selected Monday, with lawyers for the city working hard to elicit answers that showed whether prospective jurors were biased against CPD and likely to believe allegations that the department tried to whitewash an investigation of an officer-involved shooting.
"How many of you immediately think (of) CPD, yeah, it's kind of sketchy?" city attorney J.T. Wilson III asked one panel of prospective jurors, nodding as about a third of the people in the jury box raised their hands.
Lambert said he saw no cause for Muhammad to open fire on Hayes, who was hit twice by bullets fired by Muhammad,...
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