Someone Had to Say It

Might as well be this guy:

• Calling the attorneys representing the family of slain Chicago Police Officer Krystal Rivera “lower than whale sh**,” the head of the city’s largest police union has unleashed a blistering attack on the relatives’ wrongful death lawsuit that suggests another cop may have intentionally killed the officer on duty and left her to die.

  “This is as low as it gets,” Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara said in a YouTube video, directing his anger at the law firm Romanucci & Blandin after it sued Rivera’s partner, Officer Carlos Baker, and the city over Rivera’s death on June 5.

Unless the City settles, this one is going to be an on-going embarrassment for years, painting the Department, hiring practices, personnel decisions and inconsistent disciplinary processes in the worst possible light.