Illinois: Chicago police officer Karol Chwiesiuk charged in Capitol insurrection

On medical leave, too ill to work but healthy enough to go to D.C. & riot:

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Chicago police officer charged in Capitol insurrection

A Chicago police officer charged with breaching the U.S. Capitol and entering a senator’s office during the Jan. 6 insurrection texted photos of himself inside the building while wearing a police department sweatshirt after telling someone he was going to Washington “to save the nation.” Karol Chwiesiuk, 29, was arrested Friday and faces five misdemeanor counts, including entering a restricted building, disrupting government business and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds with the intent to impede a congressional proceeding. Prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Chwiesiuk was among a mob of people who broke into and damaged the office of ...

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Chicago police officer charged in Capitol insurrection

A Chicago police officer charged with breaching the U.S. Capitol and entering a senator’s office during the Jan. 6 insurrection texted photos of himself inside the building while wearing a police department sweatshirt after telling someone he was going to Washington “to save the nation.” Karol Chwiesiuk, 29, was arrested Friday and faces five misdemeanor counts, including entering a restricted building, disrupting government business and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds with the intent to impede a congressional proceeding. Prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that Chwiesiuk was among a mob of people who broke into and damaged the office of ...

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CPD Officer Charged For Participating In U.S. Capitol Riot

CBS 2's Steven Graves reports the CPD officer has been on the force for a little more than two years. He has been placed on desk duty as the investigation into his involvement continues.

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A Chicago cop gets busted in the Capitol Hill riot — and an outspoken police union goes silent

The Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, particularly under the leadership of its current president, John Catanzara, talked tough last summer when a group of cops kneeled with local George Floyd protestors in a show of empathy. “If you kneel, you’ll be risking being brought up on charges and thrown out of the lodge,” Catanzara said then. But we can’t help but notice Catanzara isn’t talking now about tossing another police officer, Karol Chwiesiuk, from the FOP ranks. Chwiesiuk has been charged with bogarting his way into U.S. Capitol during the violent Jan. 6 insurrection. Instead, the FOP is moving to ...

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