Newly released police bodycam video shows cops physically removing a former Illinois police chief from his vehicle after he was accused of drunk driving.
Walter Klimek, who was chief of the Bridgeview Police Department from 2013 until 2016, was involved in a car accident on Dec. 27, 2024.
‘You guys are my f**king buddies.’
Officers with the nearby Justice Police Department responded to a high-speed car crash in which Klimek’s speeding automobile allegedly struck a guard rail, spun out, and then slammed into another vehicle, WGN-TV reported.
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The police bodycam video — featuring explicit language — shows Klimek in the driver’s seat of his car with the airbags deployed and police officers all around his vehicle.
It appears that Klimek doesn’t realize his vehicle was involved
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