Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy

Here comes disaster:

• The mother of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera filed a wrongful death lawsuit Wednesday in which she says her daughter’s partner, Officer Carlos Baker, was struggling to accept her decision to end their romantic relationship when he fatally shot her during a foot chase on June 5.

  The lawsuit, filed in Cook County court against Baker and the Chicago Police Department, says the breakup stemmed from Baker’s infidelity and that Rivera had threatened to tell his live-in girlfriend about their relationship.

  It says Baker showed up uninvited at Rivera’s home a day before the Gresham District tactical officers chased a gunman into an apartment in Chatham and encountered a second armed man, leading Baker to fire a single gunshot, which pierced Rivera’s back, killing her.

This one is going to get ugly if it gets as far as depositions, and worse if it goes to an actual trial:

• Baker has been stripped of his policing powers since August, though not as a result of the shooting. That step came after the department said he tried to obtain surveillance video that captured a fight he and another woman got into with a female police officer inside the vestibule of a bar in Wicker Park. The female officer was treated at a hospital for a split lip.

  Since joining the department in December 2021, Baker has faced three suspensions and two reprimands, records show, including being disciplined over a complaint that he failed to arrest a home invader — on his first shift working the streets.

  He accrued five complaints as a probationary officer, when the department could have fired him because he had few union protections.

Not to mention the "man on a bridge threatening to jump" months ago.

There's going to be a harsh spotlight shining on hiring and disciplinary procedures that should cost a lot of people their jobs and perhaps punitive damages. Corp Counsel might even end up referring this one to outside law firm(s).