Wendy Wei

1 month ago | wbez.org | Kade Heather |Tom Schuba |Sophie Sherry |Jonathan Torres |Wendy Wei

Chicago cops pulled over fewer drivers last year as the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed sent shockwaves through the city and led to promises of reform. But far more of the traffic stops ended in violence, an investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity has found. Officers reported using force 787 times during traffic stops — the most since 2018, which was the first full year cops were subjected to tougher reporting requirements.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Kade Heather |Jonathan Torres |Sophie Sherry |Wendy Wei

Chicago cops pulled over fewer drivers last year as the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed sent shockwaves through the city and led to promises of reform. But far more of the traffic stops ended in violence, an investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity has found. Officers reported using force 787 times during traffic stops — the most since 2018, which was the first full year cops were subjected to tougher reporting requirements.

1 month ago | chicago.suntimes.com | Sophie Sherry |Wendy Wei |Kade Heather |Jonathan Torres

Byron Lamb still has nightmares about the day he was hospitalized after being pulled over by the Chicago police. It was September 2018, and he was taking his two young children to his mother’s house when officers pulled him over in West Pullman for allegedly running a stop sign. They ordered Lamb out. He refused. One of them then got inside his Buick sedan and shocked him with a Taser. “I was in my work uniform, I had a blue-collar shirt on,” Lamb says. “Just coming from work.

Jan 5, 2025 | truthout.org | Wendy Wei

On a family visit to Pakistan in 2000, Bursha Munifasa, then 23, discovered she was pregnant. She sat with her husband in their parked car after an ultrasound, staring at her medical report, unable to decipher what “pregnancy positive” meant. No one had said a word about pregnancy during her appointment. “I was so naive,” she recalls, sitting in her home in the Chicago suburbs where she’s lived for over 20 years now. In retrospect, there were allusions.

Aug 29, 2024 | southsideweekly.com | Wendy Wei

For four hours last Tuesday, Mark Jagner, sixty-two, bent over a journal in his lap and scribbled notes in the conference room of Rainbow PUSH Coalition Headquarters on 930 East 50th Street in Kenwood.