Chicago police Officer Danny Golden is pushed during the St. Jude Police Memorial March on May 7, 2023, at Gold Star Families Memorial and Park on the Museum Campus.
Pension board meetings to rule on duty disability applications are open to the public. CPD, meanwhile, will make its own determination as to whether an officer was injured “in the line of duty,” though the process is opaque. Superintendent Larry Snelling said last week that any officer, whether working a shift or not, can be injured in the line of duty so long as they are responding to “criminal activity.
While announcing charges last Friday in Huesca’s killing, Snelling said the “line of duty” designation is applied “based on how officers respond” in off-duty situations. Last year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed legislation that expanded on-duty disability benefits for first responders who contracted the coronavirus.
The designation by the pension fund entitles Golden to 75% of his CPD salary, tax-free, until he reaches retirement age, in addition to city-funded insurance coverage for the rest of his life. Upon retirement age, Golden can apply for his pension. Though Golden was immediately identified as a CPD officer in the suspects’ arrest reports, Cook County prosecutors did not charge any of them with aggravated battery to a peace officer.
Golden was left paralyzed from the waist down. An attorney for him did not respond to a request for comment.
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