Chicago Police Officer Richard A. Rizzo has been arrested four times in the past seven years, but that’s not enough to get him fired from the department. Rizzo has been arrested for domestic battery, child endangerment and aggravated assault with a gun. Yet while members of the general public are expected to pay fines or go to jail, prosecutors have dropped charges against Rizzo each and every time.
The Chicago
Sun-Times reports:
On Dec. 30, 2010, Rizzo was arrested
for aggravated assault with a gun and domestic battery after a fight with a
40-year-old man and the man’s 18-year-old son. Both of them lived with Rizzo in
a Garfield Ridge bungalow.
The arresting officers said Rizzo punched
the older man, grabbed the gun, put the muzzle in the man’s eye and told him,
“How about I shoot you in the face?”
A month later, on Jan. 31, 2011,
Rizzo was arrested again, this time for domestic battery, after officers said
he grabbed his girlfriend “by her throat and began to strangle her.” The
arresting officers said she broke away and locked herself in a bedroom. They
said Rizzo kicked in the door just before they arrived.
The officers “photographed alleged
injuries to victim and damage to the bedroom door,” and the incident was
referred to the city’s Independent Police Review Authority for investigation.
According to the
Sun-Times, Rizzo has never been disciplined for violating Chicago Police
Department (CPD) rules that “generally target officers who break the law or
otherwise bring discredit upon the department…To Read More….
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