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A Chicago police officer was about an hour and a half into a deposition Friday morning over one of dozens of misconduct allegations against him as a member of an embattled North Side tactical team when the officer’s attorney requested a break.
The officer, Richard Rodriquez Jr., left the room and did not come back. A few moments later, per a motion filed Saturday, Rodriquez’s attorney told the other lawyers that the deposition would need to continue another time, because a CPD sergeant had taken the officer to CPD headquarters so that Rodriquez could be relieved of his police powers.
“This was — to put it mildly — an unusual development,” the motion states.
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