‘You Do Not Speak Plainly’: First Black Police Chief of Chicago Suburb, Fired After One Year on the Job, Sues for Racial Discrimination
The first Black police chief of a small Chicago suburb has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit after being fired one year into the job due to concerns that came up his first performance review. Jerel Jones, who took the helm of the Flossmoor Police Department in March 2023, filed the civil action March 11 after…