Charges dismissed against man in beating of police sergeant

Cook County prosecutors have dropped charges of unlawful use of a firearm by a felon against a Chicago man implicated in the beating of an off-duty Chicago police sergeant. Reports the case against Joseph Baskins unraveled amid questions about the actions of a police sergeant and two officers who were with him in a Loop parking garage in 2014. Chicago police initially portrayed what happened as a robbery, with Baskins as the culprit and Sgt. Patrick Gilmore, who suffered brain damage as a result, as the victim. Now prosecutors say they dropped charges against Baskins because they couldn’t prove their case. He’s been released from the Cook County Jail. A spokeswoman for State’s Attorney Kim Foxx wouldn’t say why it took nearly three years to drop the charges.

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