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Maria Velez, left, mother of Fausto Manzera, describes her disappointment in the sentencing of Joseph Frugoli, the Chicago police detective who killed her son and Andrew Cazares on the Dan Ryan Expressway while intoxicated after Frugoli's sentencing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Nov. 16, 2012.
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Maria Velez, left, mother of Fausto Manzera, describes her disappointment in the sentencing of Joseph Frugoli, the Chicago police detective who killed her son and Andrew Cazares on the Dan Ryan Expressway while intoxicated after Frugoli’s sentencing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Nov. 16, 2012.
Chicago Tribune
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A federal judge rejected a bid by the city of Chicago to throw out a lawsuit on behalf of relatives of two young men killed in a fiery crash caused by a drunken off-duty Chicago police detective, ruling that a jury should decide whether the city was liable because of the Police Department’s “code of silence” and its longtime failure to discipline cops for wrongdoing.