In the eyes of his fellow cops, Chicago police officer Anthony Banks did the unthinkable by intervening on behalf of a pregnant woman who was being assaulted and harassed by another cop.

That same cop and other cops then retaliated against the Black police officer back at the station, surrounding him and preventing him from walking away while calling him racial slurs, telling him to go back to where he came from, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court against those cops and obtained by Atlanta Black Star.

When Banks reported the incident to a commanding officer, the Lieutenant dismissed his concerns, telling Banks that the other cops were angry at him because he intervened on behalf of the pregnant woman.

The lieutenant ordered Banks to leave his shift early, but then cal

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