Mark Flessner, the City of Chicago’s top lawyer, stepped down from his post over the weekend at the request of Mayor Lori Lightfoot as the city grapples with the legal fallout of a botched 2019 police raid.
Chicago’s former corporation counsel said in a Tuesday interview that Lightfoot asked him to resign on Sunday morning. The move came a week after Flessner and the city filed a motion in court seeking to prevent body camera footage from the raid, which targeted the wrong apartment, from being aired on local news station CBS Chicago.
Flessner has denied allegations of ill intent ...
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