5th CPD tactical team member stripped of powers during deposition over traffic stop-turned-search
A fifth officer on a controversial Chicago police tactical team has been stripped of his police powers following dozens of misconduct complaints and mounting lawsuits, according to a recently filed court record. Two days after an ABC7 I-Team report on the 1863 tactical team -- a group of eight Chicago police members who have been accused of unlawfully searching drivers on the Near North Side for the past several years -- Officer Richard Rodriquez Jr. was relieved of police powers. But it's the way Rodriquez was stripped of his police powers that was labeled "an unusual development" by civil rights attorney Jordan Marsh when, 90 minutes into a court-ordered deposition over an alleged unlawful traffic stop, a CPD sergeant arrived and escorted Rodriquez to Chicago police headquarters to hand over his badge and gun. Marsh, who's representing 12 people suing the department and city over alleged 1863 tactical team misconduct, was the attorney taking the deposition, and call...
