A Cook County judge's order blocking the release of materials - including body-worn camera footage - continues to obscure the public's understanding of what truly happened to Officer Krystal Rivera six months after her death.

Rivera was fatally shot by her partner, Carlos Baker, during an incident on June 5, which began with the two officers pursuing a subject into an apartment building near 82nd and Drexel.

From there, the facts are disputed.

Attorneys for the police union and those representing Baker argue that as Baker entered the doorway of the apartment building, he was confronted by a person pointing a rifle at him and that when he turned, he lost his footing and that his gun fired, striking Rivera.

In a newly filed wrongful death lawsuit filed this week, attorneys representing t

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