“I’m sorry you will have to see and hear the things you are going to have to see and hear in this trial,” a prosecutor warned jurors in his opening statement as the trial began for Emonte Morgan, 23.
When Chicago Police Officer Ella French was gunned down during a traffic stop in August of 2021, she was wearing a bodycam that showed the entire encounter. So.
The blue glow of police lights has become a constant fixture downtown, where cops working overtime have been assigned to act as a crime deterrent simply by sitting in their cars.
Defense attorneys had asked the judge to bar officers from wearing their uniforms and creating “a sea of blue” that could intimidate jurors in Emonte Morgan’s trial.