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Nov 25, 2009 6:52 am US/Central

Chicago Cops Reprimanded For Pittsburgh Incident

Officers Forced Detained Student At G20 Summit To Pose With Them

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Click to enlarge 1 of 1: Two high-ranking Chicago Police officers have been disciplined for this incident, in which Chicago officers helping at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh allegedly posed for a picture with a detained student in a humiliating pose.
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Two high-ranking Chicago Police officers are being punished for forcing a college student they arrested at the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh to appear in a group picture with them in a humiliating pose.

The officers were reprimanded for the September incident. Video of the alleged incident was posted on YouTube.

Chicago Police issued a reprimand to a department chief and commander, but would not give their names or details of the reprimand.

The department began an internal investigation after the YouTube video was released. It shows officers in riot gear posing with a detained man kneeling in front of them.

Kyle Kramer, the 21-year-old University of Pittsburgh student forced to pose with police, was returning to campus from a pizza parlor when he was detained by police who were rounding up protesters, his attorney Cristopher Hoel told The Associated Press on in October.

"He was a college student arrested for walking on campus. That seems to me to make him a victim," Hoel said.

Kramer was charged with of failure to disperse and disorderly conduct.

In October, the Chicago Police Department issued a statement saying the officers were working in Pittsburgh on their own time, but that they were still representing the city of Chicago.

Following the incident, the popular Second City Cop blog blasted the officers for heaping more ridicule on a department dogged by several recent embarrassing incidents, including the beating of a female bartender by off-duty officer Anthony Abbate.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.