He was also implicated in an internal investigation that was sparked by an anonymous complaint to the inspector general’s office, referred to COPA and later closed, a source said. Bakker tied to wrongful termination suit filed by Muslim cop In January, he was reprimanded after he and his partner failed to search a police cruiser where a pellet gun was later discovered. Another investigation related to a civilian complaint accusing Bakker of being part of “the white supremacist group” Proud Boys had been closed on June 2, 2020, because it was duplicative, the source added.Īnother internal probe targeting Bakker also resulted in a formal punishment, records show.
4, 2020, based on a written request from the inspector general’s office, a source said. City Hall’s secret emails: What we’ve learned since hack of Lightfoot officialsĪfter Bakker was given the five-day suspension, the case was reopened on Dec.The police department has repeatedly declined to provide records to the Sun-Times related to open investigations. Vazquez then claimed it’s “insufficient” for officials to merely say an investigation is ongoing.
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“We had neighbors in full on panic and fear asking us for answers that you all either forgot to provide, ignored and didn’t provide, or just outright didn’t want to provide until I had to ask it at a briefing in front of the full council and the Mayor.” “Considering the number of threats of Proud Boy activity across the city and directed at our ward and businesses that is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE,” he added. “Yesterday on a call with the Mayor is the first response to this that I have received since last Wednesday and the only answer I received was ‘oh sorry, there is an investigation,’” Vazquez wrote in the email to Lightfoot and three of her staffers last June. But as he continued to search for answers, Vazquez’sfrustrations boiled over in a scathing email. Brown and informed the mayor’s office that Bakker had attended Proud Boys’ meetups in his North Side ward. Shortly after Bakker’s connection to the Proud Boys was made public, Ald. A post from the Proud Boys’ Telegram chat channel appears to show Thomas Christensen, the imprisoned former leader of the far-right group’s Chicago chapter, alerting Officer Robert Bakker to a CPD post celebrating the LGBTQ community.
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