A black juror winced Tuesday when she heard former Chicago PoliceOfficer Joseph Miedzianowski boast in a secretly tape-recorded phonecall that he bashed an innocent black driver in the head with a 20-pound sledge hammer.
Miedzianowski-on trial in federal court for allegedlymasterminding a Chicago-to-Miami drug ring and turning ganginformants into crime partners-used a racist slur to describe thedriver in the Dec. 5, 1998 recording.
In his conversation with Cook County Sheriff's CorrectionalOfficer Billy Jarding, Miedzianowski said he was helping execute asearch warrant at a house when a 6-foot-5, 300-pound man pulled up ina car and started honking his horn.
"I …
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