Two months after Joliet Police Sgt. Javier Esqueda was featured in a USA TODAY investigation, officers voted to remove him from a supervisor’s union.
Author: Daphne Duret, USA TODAY
The Legend of Bras-Coupé: How police turned a Black man into a villain to save themselves
The little-known, slavery-era story of one of the first documented police shootings of an American Black man and why police made him a criminal.