{"id":998287,"date":"2026-08-13T14:32:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/998287\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T14:32:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T14:32:19","slug":"cpd-officer-relieved-of-police-powers-after-video-of-southwest-side-confrontation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/998287\/","title":{"rendered":"CPD officer relieved of police powers after video of Southwest Side confrontation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786562663_163_default-image.png\" alt=\"Livestream\" class=\"livestream-poster-image\" data-v-e2115db2=\"\"\/>     <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A Chicago police officer has been relieved of his police powers amid an investigation into a video that appears to show him confronting a group of people while off duty on the city\u2019s Southwest Side.<\/p>\n<p>   CPD officer relieved of powers <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Chicago Police Department confirmed Jeremy Sikorski has been relieved of his police powers and detailed to the department\u2019s Alternate Response Section.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The move comes as the department investigates an off-duty confrontation captured on video. The video allegedly shows Sikorski confronting a group of people in the Clearing\/Garfield Ridge area.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">CPD did not provide additional details about the investigation.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The circumstances surrounding the confrontation remain under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this story came from the Chicago Police Department and video of the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/organization\/cpd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Police Department<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; A Chicago police officer has been relieved of his police powers amid an investigation into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":998288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,12634,5386,1818,50,12632,68],"class_list":["post-998287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-cook-county","tag-cpd","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/998288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}