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Seven Chicago cops yanked off the streets for trumped up drug arrests....
15 men exonerated of phony drug crimes. Now WHY to NFL players take a knee Trump??
"I started to look into it, and what we slowly realized this was ongoing, systemic, day-to-day corruption by not just Sgt. Watts and not just by his federally convicted co-defendant, Officer Kallatt Mohammed, but by a whole crew of officers that went on with impunity for over a decade on the south side Chicago housing projects."
Baker was freed last year after nearly 10 years in prison when the state's attorney dropped drug charges that Baker claimed were concocted by Watts and his crew"
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/18/us/chicago-charges-dropped-corrupt-cop/index.html