A Chicago police officer who used his department-issued radio to strike a man in the head three times in July 2024 should be suspended for 89 days, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling and the agency tasked with investigating police misconduct agreed, records show.
Officer Michael Donnelly, who was a member of the Near North (18th) Police District tactical team until he was stripped of his police powers last fall, used excessive force against a Black man he and several other officers were trying to detain near Cambridge Avenue and Chestnut Street in Cabrini-Green, a complex operated by the Chicago Housing Authority that sits just west of the Gold Coast.
Five former members of that tactical team have been stripped of their police powers…