CHICAGO — It’s a coincidence that even we couldn’t consider: A Chicago police officer pleaded responsible and obtained probation on Thursday for submitting a false police report—the identical day that the king of faux reviews, Jussie Smollett, had his conviction overturned by the Illinois Supreme Courtroom.
Prepare dinner County State’s Lawyer Kim Foxx and her prime lieutenants have lengthy insisted that the backroom deal they gave to Smollett—fees dropped, the case instantly sealed from the general public eye—was one thing anybody dealing with comparable fees may obtain.
However as CWBChicago and the particular prosecutor who investigated the Smollett matter discovered, there have been no different circumstances the place Foxx’s workplace gave such a candy deal to somebody who filed a false police report.
And the most recent instance of that’s 38-year-old Chicago cop Zondranika Williams.
Final November, prosecutors charged her with felony false report, saying she reported being robbed of $5,000 behind her dwelling when, in truth, no theft occurred.
The nine-year CPD veteran known as 911 on September 23, 2023, and claimed {that a} man robbed her close to her storage within the 8000 block of South Wabash.
“Give me every thing you bought!” the robber supposedly ordered whereas holding her at gunpoint.
Williams advised responding officers that her surveillance cameras weren’t working. Sadly for Williams, her neighbor’s cameras labored simply high quality, displaying that no theft befell, prosecutors stated.
On Thursday, Williams pleaded responsible to misdemeanor false report, a cost prosecutors agreed to cut back from a felony, in trade for 2 years of probation from Decide Ursula Walowski. The choose ordered Williams to chorus from possessing firearms and imposed different necessities, in response to court docket information.
Williams resigned her $102,870 a 12 months job on Thursday. She had been stripped of police powers since fees had been filed final 12 months.
Editor’s be aware: Williams’ job standing has been up to date on this story to mirror new data obtained from CPD.
