People Wrongly Blamed A 'War On Cops' For An Officer's Death. Here's What They're Saying Now.
It’s now clear that Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz -- the Fox Lake, Illinois, police officer whose death captured national headlines in September -- was not a hero gunned down in the line of duty. Investigators revealed this week that he had been stealing and laundering public money from a youth mentor program for seven years, and took his own life in what they called a "carefully staged suicide" because he feared his scheme would be discovered.
As the official account of the officer’s death and full scope of his embezzlement plot continues to unfold -- and becomes increasingly twisted -- the heartbroken Fox Lake community has turned on Gliniewicz. To them, he's now a villain.
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