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That’s when a federal appeals court rejected the city’s attempt to dismiss the case and said police “might as well have released her into the lions’ den at Brookfield Zoo” when they ignored frantic calls from Eilman’s parents and allowed the young woman to leave without assistance in the high-crime neighborhood.
Six months later Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration asked a federal judge to explore the possibility of settling the case amid demands from the Eilman family for as much as $100 million.
Lori Lightfoot, a finalist to replace retired U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, was subsequently added to the city’s legal team.
A former federal prosecutor, Lightfoot once ran the Office of Professional Standards (OPS), now known as the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates police brutality and other wrongdoing.
In the federal appeals court ruling that turned about to be the death knell of the city’s case, Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook did not mince his words in talking about the cavalier disregard that Chicago Police officers exhibited for Eilman’s safety before her release.
That’s when a federal appeals court rejected the city’s attempt to dismiss the case and said police “might as well have released her into the lions’ den at Brookfield Zoo” when they ignored frantic calls from Eilman’s parents and allowed the young woman to leave without assistance in the high-crime neighborhood.
Six months later Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration asked a federal judge to explore the possibility of settling the case amid demands from the Eilman family for as much as $100 million.
Lori Lightfoot, a finalist to replace retired U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, was subsequently added to the city’s legal team.
A former federal prosecutor, Lightfoot once ran the Office of Professional Standards (OPS), now known as the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates police brutality and other wrongdoing.
In the federal appeals court ruling that turned about to be the death knell of the city’s case, Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook did not mince his words in talking about the cavalier disregard that Chicago Police officers exhibited for Eilman’s safety before her release.