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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Would-Be Chicago Cop Collects $500k in Disability

The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Donald E. Barnes Jr. has collected roughly $500,000 in tax-free disability payments over the past fifteen years, after sustaining an injury during a “slow jog” at the Chicago Police training academy.

He had been in training for a mere ten days when the injury occurred, according to the report, and never actually served a day as a police officer.

 The report relates that then-30-year-old Barnes had accomplished five blocks of the three-mile jog when he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with heat stroke and placed in intensive care due to kidney and liver failure.

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