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| Officers make trips to Springfield to protest early release of cop killers |
| By suntimes.com - Stefano Esposito |
| Published: 02/01/2013 |
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In all likelihood, one of the two men who murdered Chicago Police Officer Charles Pollard on a December night 45 years ago — leaving his bullet-punctured body in a Southwest Side alley — will walk out of prison in November. Chicago Police Officer Frank DiMaria knows that. It didn’t stop him and 24 other cops from making a pre-dawn trip to Springfield Thursday to ensure Clifton Hill — a 66-year-old man with a bald head and a shaggy white beard — serves every last day of his prison term. Hill’s sentence officially ends in November. Ads by Google “They left him there to die alone,” said DiMaria, returning from Springfield Thursday afternoon, after the Illinois Prisoner Review Board turned down Hill’s final request for early release. “He died in the alley, leaving behind a wife and ... children.” DiMaria and his fellow officers make the trip to Springfield three to four times a year to protest, in uniform, the early release of convicted cop killers in cases so old there’s sometimes no one left living from the victim’s family. Pollard’s wife died some years ago, and one of his children now lives out of state, the officers said. Read More. |
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