Video shows CPD officers confronting, striking teen on bike and fleeing the scene

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By John GreenfieldJul 15, 2022, 2:29 pm118 pts
On Thursday, July 1, there was a troubling incident in Park Ridge in which an off-duty Chicago police officer accused a 14-year-old Puerto Rican boy, the only youth of color in a group of teenage friends, of trying to steal the officer’s son’s bicycle outside a Starbucks in suburban Park Ridge. The cop…

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