A Chicago police officer was suspended for allegedly showing up to work drunk on Jan. 20 after celebrating Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday. Josue Najera, who had been with his family at Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower, was supposed to be on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s security detail later that night from 9 p.m. until 6 a.m., but was confronted about his condition upon his arrival on the mayor’s block. “PO Najera was agitated, speaking loudly and avoiding eye contact while explaining the event,” a sergeant overseeing the mayor’s detail wrote, according to Chicago Police Department internal affairs records. “His behavior was very uncharacteristic and erratic from the normal behavior (the sergeant) knows PO Najera to display.” A department supervisor soon confiscated Najera’s gun. At the station a few hours later, Najera blew a .134 BAC, and was then stripped of his police powers. He was suspended 25 days—time which he hasn’t yet served, the Tribune says. A CPD spokesperson said Najera, who had had a clean disciplinary record prior to January’s incident, is currently working in the department’s Alternate Response Section. Najera joined the force in 2017.
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