A veteran Chicago police officer can no longer return to law enforcement after he was charged for grabbing a teenage boy by the neck and shoving him outside an elementary school two years ago.
The Chicago Tribune reported that 56-year-old Craig Lancaster, who served with the city’s police department for nearly 30 years, agreed to voluntarily decertify as a police officer as part of his plea agreement.
Lancaster was charged with felony aggravated battery in November 2023, six months after he assaulted 14-year-old JaQuwaun Williams as the teen walked by an elementary school.
Local prosecutors did not start investigating the officer until after school surveillance video of the attack emerged…