Two Chicago police officers who started a drunken daytime brawl at a Wrigleyville pizza restaurant in 2019 reached settlement agreements with the city that allowed them to keep their jobs after each served a one-year suspension.

In records made public last week, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability disclosed both officers were recommended to be separated from the Chicago Police Department in September 2021. That month, CPD — at the time led by Superintendent David Brown — requested the city’s Law Department bring administrative charges to fire officers Salvador Perez and Moises Diaz.

COPA and CPD found the two officers violated several Police Department rules when they both struck a person in the face without justification, were intoxicated and breached the public peace by inst

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