Good Question (UPDATE)

As usual, some sharp readers noted this:

• Um, how was Ch 2 able to FOIA the body cam tape of this guy when we were told that only Bobby Rush could approve the release of his tape when he accused the CPD of racial profiling?
  
  How about it Ch 2? Will you also FOIA Rush's tape?

We assume the reason is because Maldonado is a political threat to someone in power, so he must be kept in check and his ambitions must remain local. Rush is a washed up has-been whose constituency votes for him only out of habit and he has no ambition besides a peaceful expiration at some point instead of a hail of gunfire like so many of his compatriots.

But that doesn't mean an enterprising cop or their union couldn't FOIA the tape.

UPDATE: We guess someone did FOIA the tape and it was out in February. Here's a link to it.

We may have confused Rush's incident with the one in 010 a few years back where some political animal made all sorts of accusations, but we can't remember who that was and if it was just in-car camera instead of body cams.