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Chicago's Police Department is investigating an officer's use of a Taser last month on an 82-year-old woman who police say was swinging a hammer when they arrived.
Lillian Fletcher was rushed to the hospital after being jolted by the Taser last week, but has since been released, police said Tuesday.
Officials with the city's Department on Aging went to her home Oct. 29 to make a welfare check, and called police when they saw Fletcher in a window swinging a hammer back and forth, police spokeswoman Monique Bond said Tuesday.
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Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
26 August 2007
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Federal probes steeped in secr
federal probe into the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety's handling of a 2003 prostitution case could spread to other parts of Kalamazoo County's criminal-justice system.
But the public would be the last to know.
Federal investigative tools -- including the use of a grand jury to hear testimony and decide on indictments -- are so secret that the U.S. Attorney's office won't confirm or deny it has launched a probe.
In fact, Kalamazoo City Manager Kenneth Collard, who asked for the U.S. Attorney's office to intervene last week, may not know a federal investigation is under way unless he's questioned by FBI or Department of Justice agents and/or subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury.
In a letter to U.S. Attorney Charles R. Gross last week, Collard said fallout from the handling of the prostitution case has ``brought the integrity of the system into question.''
``Clearly, this situation has out-grown the ability of an internal investigation to determine the whole truth,'' Collard wrote in a letter to Gross requesting the federal probe.
``The issues raise the specter of officer misconduct, obstruction of justice, and/or public corruption. I make this request in an effort to preserve and/or restore the public's confidence and trust in our local law enforcement and criminal-justice system.''
An allegation of ``judicial or police misconduct is handled within the Department of Justice,'' said Gross, who agreed to talk in general terms about the federal investigatory process. ``There's a public integrity section to work on cases of official corruption.
``We work with the FBI and state agencies like the Michigan State Police.''
Assistant City Manager Fay Peek said he expects the FBI to ``follow the evidence wherever it leads'' if Gross authorizes a federal investigation.
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