Off Duty: The Crime

Weekend by The Guardian

Mar 21, 202600:26:14News & Politics

On the evening of 29 December 2011, Officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in. They shot Lewis several times, then took off with his gun and police star. A we...

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