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As Eric Lurry was losing consciousness in the back of the squad car, Joliet Police Sgt. Doug May smacked the Black Joliet resident in the head and declared, Wake up, bitch! (Image via Joliet police )
JOLIET, IL In one of Al Roechner s final decisions running the Joliet Police Department, the city s departing police chief in January notified
Sgt. Doug May he was getting a seven-day suspension in connection with Eric Lurry s death from one year earlier.
Joliet Patch learned of the seven work-day discipline issued against Sgt. May in connection with the death of the Black Joliet resident during a Freedom of Information Act request to the Joliet Police Department. ....

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