Next Tuesday will mark a profoundly sad anniversary. It will have been one year since the shooting death of Officer Enrique Martínez as he responded to call in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on the South Side.

The 26-year-old Martínez was shot to death allegedly by a man from inside a car using a handgun manipulated with a switch converting it into the equivalent of a machine gun. The suspect, Darion McMillian, now 24, was on electronic monitoring at the time for another pending charge and is in prison now awaiting trial on first-degree murder in Martínez’s death, among other charges.

So while Martínez’s family and his former fellow officers wait for justice to be done, it’s heartening to report that the administration of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has contributed to pressuring Gloc

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