Investigators Knew From Beginning But Covered Up Evidence that Fox Lake Cop Had Committed Suicide

Lieutenant Joseph Gliniewicz "Staged" His Own Suicide

How many scenarios can you think of in which 3 crooks shoot dead a policeman, drop the murder weapon three feet from the unmoving body, and flee?   Or, if the criminals were so mentally challenged as to incriminate themselves so easily, how was it possible that they could have ingeniously evaded capture in a manhunt that cost local taxpayers $300,000?

The September suicide of Fox Lake, Illinois police lieutenant Gliniewicz staged to "sort of" look like a murder only fooled the public because information about the crime scene was withheld by the police department.  The County Coroner, Thomas Rudd, even got into a shouting match with  Lake Fox's chief investigator, George Filenko, who accused the coroner of contaminating the investigation by releasing information suggesting that the crime might have been a suicide rather than a homicide.

 The police chief's insistence that Gliniewicz was murdered, set in motion an ugly narrative of right-wing media hosts and politicians blaming the "Black Lives Matter" group for contributing to the man's death on account of protesting police brutality.  So, what really happened?  Lt. Gliniewicz  killed himself, but had tossed his eye glasses on the ground, setting up the locale to look vaguely like a crime scene, in which he might have struggled with the assailants.  The motive appears to have been an investigation launched by the city manager, whom Gliniewicz had tried to put a hit on, as a means of stopping the investigation of financial improprieties. 

Lieutenant Gliniewicz is dead, so there's no need wasting more time and resources investigating him. However, the public is owed an explanation by the Fox Lake Police Department and Black Lives Matter is owed an apology by Ted Cruz, Megyn Kelly, Chris Christie and FOX News. .