After a decade of insisting it was a botched suicide, city asks injured man to help them prove Chicago cop shot him

It was a stunning about-face from the city, which has spent a considerable amount of time and tax dollars arguing that LaPorta had fired the bullet that ricocheted around his brain and left him unable to walk, read or care for himself. The subpoena meant the city now wants LaPorta’s testimony — something its representatives scoffed at in the past — to secure the officer’s firing at an upcoming disciplinary hearing.

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