baker spent ten years apart as ben sat in prison. it is torture. you think in your head, every day, like, how did this happen? reporter: both faced drug charges connected to the rogue officer. at the time, no one would hear their cries of innocence. no one would listen. no. what would they tell you? nothing we can do. you need to call your aldermen. the aldermen. talk to the fbi. reporter: help arrived in 2015 when lawyers with the exoneration project took on ben s case and helped overturn his conviction. now i finally really feel vindicated. reporter: the chicago police department tells cnn seven more officers have been placed on administrative duty while the department s internal affairs unit looks into other cases connected to sergeant ronald watts team. ryan young, cnn, chicago. all right, ryan, thank you so
charges connected to the rogue officer. at the time, no one would hear their cries of innocence. no one would listen. what would they tell you? there s nothing we can do. you need to call your elder man. did that. wrote the elder man. talked to the fbi. reporter: help arrived in 2015 when lawyers with the exoneration project took over their case and helped overturn his conviction. now i finally really feel vindicated. reporter: the chicago police department tells cnn seven more officers have been placed on administrative duty while the internal affairs unit looked into other cases connected to sergeant watts team. ryan young, cnn, chicago. and coming up after the white house said it would reverse a ban on the import of elephant trophies, the president later weighed in and saying he is now putting it on hold for
money from a federal drug informant. the conviction has led to review of hundreds of cases. gibson, like many other men, whose cases were exonerated said watts printed evidence on him. cnn was unable to reach watts for comment. it is a prime example of the phrases we hear, the lynn blue line. the code of silence. never i ve been doing this work for close to 15 years, there s no case, no situation that i ve ever seen that comes close to exemplifying the code of silence than this one. reporter: ben and clarisa baker spent ten years apart as ben sat in prison. it s torture, because you re thinking like every day, how did this happen. reporter: both faced drug charges connected to the rogue officer. at the time, no one would hear their cries of innocence. no one would listen. no. what would they tell you?
unit? and clearly this individual has ignored all the protocol, all the training that he was given, and he acted in a reckless and a rogue manner. this is a reflection on this police commissioner. 30 seconds left here. one, two, three, four, five, according to wnyc, we have those complaints. we have the two open civil rights cases. at what point does the flag go up? the flag should have went up after the first incident. and especially after those cases were thrown out. so this is a problematic officer, this is a rogue officer who is evidently not being properly supervised. former nypd sergeant noel leader. appreciate it. in other breaking news this hour as well, investigators detaining two people in connection with a string of arizona freeway shootings. they say they re questioning one of those people right now. so far they re not saying much about who these people are or why they were stopped. a frenzied search for the shooting suspect or suspects has unfolded near phoenix in
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