Adventures in Rahmaland: Chicago Cops Forced Suspect to Wear Antlers; Pose for Pictures

Timothy McDermott and Jerome Finnigan pose for a "trophy" shot with an unidentified drug suspect.

In Chicago, a photo has emerged of two cops caught on camera pretending to be hunters as they posed with rifles alongside a black suspect dressed in deer antlers.

For the first time since it was taken more than 10 years ago, the Polaroid photo snapped by Officers Timothy McDermott and Jerome Finnigan has been revealed to the public, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The picture is believed to have been taken inside a West Side police station between 1999 and 2003 — after the man was busted for possessing “20 bags of weed,” the Sun-Times report.

The photo first was handed over to the city by federal officials in 2013 and resulted in McDermott’s termination last year.

Two years before the photo was given to police investigators, Finnigan was sentenced to 12 years in prison for being the mastermind behind a rogue crew of cops that was said to have committed a series of robberies, home invasions and other crimes, according to the Sun-Times.

 McDermott couldn’t remember any specifics about the incident, but admitted he was involved..

“I am embarrassed by my participation in this photograph,” he said. “I made a mistake as a young, impressionable police officer who was trying to fit in.”


 -RW