Evans' trial comes a day after the U.S. Department of Justice said
that it was conducting a civil rights investigation of the third-largest
U.S. city's police department, including its use of force.
Chicago police commander faces trial for putting gun in suspect's mouth(Chicago Tribune)
A Chicago
police commander who had been praised for his crime fighting in some of
the city's roughest neighborhoods will go on trial on Tuesday on charges
that he put a gun in a suspect's mouth.
Glenn Evans,
who was relieved of his duties pending the outcome of his case, was
charged last year with aggravated battery and official misconduct in the
capture of a suspect on Jan. 30, 2013.
Evans' trial comes a day after the U.S.
Department of Justice said that it was conducting a civil rights
investigation of the third-largest U.S. city's police department,
including its use of force.
The city has seen
nearly two weeks of protests following the release of a video of the
shooting death of a 17-year-old black teen by a white police officer in
2014. The officer, Jason Van Dyke, was charged with murder in the shooting of Laquan McDonald on the same day the video was released.
On
Monday, prosecutors said they would not seek criminal charges in
another 2014 police shooting which caused the death of Ronald Johnson
III. Prosecutors said Johnson had a gun and was fleeing arrest.
The
amount of force that can be used by police officers has become a focus
of national debate due to a series of high-profile killings of black men
at the hands of mostly white police officers in U.S. cities.
Evans,
who is black, has been the subject of several police misconduct
lawsuits, according to local media reports. His case will be tried by
Cook County Criminal Court Judge Diane Cannon, without a jury.
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