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Judge imposes maximum sentence
After 18 years of working to put suspected criminals behind bars, former Forest Park police sergeant Michael Murphy found himself on the wrong side of the law Wednesday, and was sentenced to spend one year in a federal prison. The sentence was handed down in a courtroom on the 14th floor of the Dirksen Federal Building in downtown Chicago and stems from a beating Murphy inflicted on a suspect in 2003.
The prison term represents the maximum penalty available to U.S. District Court Judge David Coar who commented from the bench that a plea bargain reached in April represented the sum of ... Read more
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CHICAGO - Off-duty police, barroom beatings and videotape.
The Chicago Police Department on Monday again fielded uncomfortable questions about those subjects after accusations arose that six off-duty police officers assaulted four men in a bar, allegedly breaking the nose of one man and breaking the ribs of another.
It's the second time in less than a week that claims surfaced of such misbehavior by off-duty officers at Chicago bars. Both incidents were captured on videotape, though in the most recently reported case police have declined to release the footage.
According to Steven Fine, a lawyer for the four men, the six officers "kicked, punched and stomped" his clients at the Jefferson Tap and Grille in the West Loop, dragging at least one of the men outside.
At one point during the early morning attack on Dec. 15, an on-duty officer responded to a 911 call, spoke to one of the off-duty officers, then left, Fine said. Later, other police arrived and did speak to Fine's clients, but no arrests were made.
Charges, Fine argued, should have been filed by now.
"Had it been a typical bar fight there would have been an arrest made that night," he said. "They have enough evidence to make an arrest, and it just seems to be a case where they're protecting their own."
Police spokeswoman Monique Bond declined to comment Monday, saying only that the Cook County state's attorney's office is investigating. No one has been charged.
The videotape is evidence and so would not be immediately released, she said.
"Hopefully we'll have something that we can release very soon," she said.
Fine said he'll ask a judge April 2 to grant him access to the video. He also wants the judge to order the release of the names of the officers allegedly involved.
In a separate incident reported last week, a videotape released by attorneys showed 24-year-old bartender Karolina Obrycka being punched, kicked and thrown to the ground by an off-duty police officer at Jesse's Short Stop Inn.
The surveillance video from the bar on Chicago's northwest side was aired widely on television and the Internet.
Anthony Abbate, a 12-year police veteran, is charged with felony aggravated battery in that Feb. 19 attack. The 38-year-old is on leave pending an internal investigation, and Bond has said she expected the department to fire Abbate.
In the December incident, Adam Mastrucci, Scott Lowrance and brothers Aaron and Barry Gilfand were playing pool when they were attacked; the man whose nose was broken needed reconstructive surgery, and the other man suffered three or four broken ribs, Fine said.
The video showing the attack on Obrycka further frustrated and angered Mastrucci, Lowrance and the Gilfand brothers, the attorney said.
"When the (other) video surfaced, our clients became more outraged and more upset that no action was taken," he said. "I think they're upset (about) the fact that these officers have remained on active duty.
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