In her lawsuit in 2020, Officer Cynthia Donald accused Johnson of forcing her into sex in his office and on work trips and said he continued to harass her after she was demoted from her driver job. Johnson says they had a consensual relationship and remained friends after Mayor Lori Lightfoot fired him in 2019. In the latest court filings, Donald’s friends say she confided to them that Johnson was harassing her.
This marks at least the third time Chicago’s inspector general has pressed the police department to take a closer look at an officer’s far-right links.
This marks at least the third time Chicago’s inspector general has pressed the police department to take a closer look at an officer’s far-right links.
The department’s handling of the probe “points out a much bigger problem about how internal affairs and how, in general, the police department is accountable to the public,” the alderperson said.
The city’s top watchdog says the Chicago Police Department overlooked incriminating evidence while looking into an officer’s ties to the far-right Proud Boys, and failed to consider whether he should be fired for lying to investigators.