Marissa Nelson | May 25, 2021 9:05 pm
This story is part of Policing: A “Chicago Tonight” Special on the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.
Kimberly Marshall still remembers a call she responded to almost 30 years ago. A young boy was thrown out of a building window because he wouldn’t steal candy.
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“I don’t think I’ve ever gotten over that,” Marshall said. “That has stayed with me, and that does cause those, those dark thoughts.”
Marshall was a Chicago police officer for 20 years, and the emotional drain of the job was a challenge, she said.
“The kids that you see here, they stay with you the most,” Marshall said. “Everyone says that you, you can’t describe the horror and the nightmares and the feeling of not being as useful as you can be knowing that it’s out of your hands.”