Not a Genius

And now he's going to get deposed under oath:

• A federal judge has refused to dismiss a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former Markham police officer who claims she was fired after reporting that the city’s police chief ordered her to release a convicted murderer she arrested after allegedly finding a loaded handgun in his car during a traffic stop.

  The ruling allows former Markham patrol officer Kayla Heller to continue pursuing claims that Police Chief Jack Genius and the City of Markham retaliated against her after she reported the incident to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Illinois State Police.

  The lawsuit stems from an incident first reported by CWB Chicago in December 2025, when we revealed that Heller had been fired shortly after we asked Genius why he ordered her to release convicted felon and current U.S. Senate candidate Tyrone Muhammad without charges.

  In a 14-page order issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama denied the defendants’ request to throw out the lawsuit, finding that Heller had presented enough of a case for her claims to move forward to discovery.

You think CPD is political, these small towns are thousands of times worse. We would hope she scores a few million dollars, but it's Markham, which is always teetering on the brink of insolvency anyway.

But she could get damages against Genius since he's obviously acting outside of his governmental authority here. Maybe he has a nice house.