It took nearly five years for the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the city’s police oversight agency, to complete its investigation into the officers’ social media posts.
That resulted in the agency recommending last August that five members of the Chicago Police Department be given lengthy suspensions for making incendiary, in some cases racist comments about the development and on other divisive issues.
Sgt. Anargyros Kereakes equated the Black Lives Matter movement, the NFL and Black entertainers to the Ku Klux Klan and asked,"do Black Lives really Matter to black people?" Asked about the COPA report and what they are doing to monitor cops on social media and respond to racist posts, police officials cite a policy banning officers from posting disparaging remarks.
Englehart retired from the police department in November 2020. He took a refund of the $43,963 he had contributed toward his retirement and is not receiving a city pension. Kereakes said he was trying to have a private discussion with Black law enforcement officials and that he wasn’t being insensitive.
Kereakes also says he left the department because the mayor and police leaders "completely abandoned our citizens" during the 2020 riots in Chicago following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. "CPD is far from the problem," he wrote in 2017, "these little animal f—- have no respect for anything. At least the ghetto building on [Northwest Highway] is stalled."But COPA ruled that Olson’s comments "were indicative of animus towards members of a particular community and against people from low-income situations."
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