{"id":2256729,"date":"2024-05-31T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-woman-caught-on-camera-backing-over-police-officer-with-squad-car-found-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T13:18:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T17:18:49","slug":"chicago-woman-caught-on-camera-backing-over-police-officer-with-squad-car-found-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-woman-caught-on-camera-backing-over-police-officer-with-squad-car-found-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago woman caught on camera backing over police officer with squad car found not guilty due to insanity defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchicago-woman-caught-on-camera-backing-over-police-officer-with-squad-car-found-not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2256729&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Whitley Temple, a Black woman, was acquitted of\u2064 attempted murder and found not guilty by \u2063reason of insanity for running over \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-executives-admit-meddling-with-election-backing-biden-in-leaked-video\/\" title=\"Facebook executives admit meddling with election, backing Biden in leaked video\">white police officer<\/a> after stealing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/public-radio-reporter-arrested-for-firebombing-police-cars\/\" title=\"Public Radio \u201cReporter\u201d Arrested For Firebombing Police Cars\">police car<\/a>.\u200d Judge Tyria Walton\u200c delivered the verdict \u2063in a brief \u200bbench trial after several continuances. Temple is now under a\u200b treatment plan instead of imprisonment, following \u200dthe disturbing incident in Chicago in June 2022. Your revised summary reads as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Whitley Temple, a Black woman, was\u200b acquitted\u2062 of attempted murder and found not guilty by reason of insanity for running over a white \u200cpolice officer after stealing a\u2063 police car. Judge \u200cTyria Walton delivered the\u2063 verdict in a brief bench trial after several continuances. Temple is now under \u200ca treatment \u2063plan instead of imprisonment, following \u2064the disturbing \u200dincident in Chicago in June 2022.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-lauds-state-rep-shirley-weber-established-africana-studies-professor-as-newsoms-secretary-of-state-pick\/\" title=\"Harris Lauds State Rep. Shirley Weber, Established Africana Studies Professor, As Newsom\u2019s Secretary Of State Pick\">black woman<\/a> caught on camera stealing a cop car and backing over a white police officer was found not guilty of attempted murder and not guilty by reason of insanity on additional charges.<\/p>\n<p>Whitley Temple, 35, received the verdict from Chicago Judge Tyria Walton, who made the decision in a short bench trial following a month of continuances, CWB Chicago <a href=\"https:\/\/cwbchicago.com\/2024\/05\/not-guilty-woman-who-stole-squad-car-and-backed-over-a-chicago-cop-was-insane-judge-rules.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. Temple is now required to follow a treatment plan instead of serving time in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution showed that in June 2022, Chicago police officer Ed Poppish was responding to a report of shots fired when he saw Temple lying in the street, half-naked. Poppish requested an ambulance, and as he did so, Temple got up, started saying the officer\u2019s name over and over, and then walked around him to get behind the wheel of his patrol car.<\/p>\n<p>Poppish tried to stop her, but she allegedly responded: \u201cLet me go. This has nothing to do with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage and a witness\u2019 own recording <a href=\"https:\/\/videos.files.wordpress.com\/RPin596U\/2022.06.13-officer-struck-by-naked-woman-stealing-car.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">showed<\/a> what happened next. Temple reversed the cop car, dragging Poppish into another vehicle and striking his head. He sustained a concussion and injury that required six stitches. The original charges against Temple noted that it was \u201ca miracle\u201d he survived, CWB reported.<\/p>\n<p>Temple then drove the squad car to a gas station and left the car running while she went into the station, returned to the vehicle, and drove away again. She then drove the wrong way on the Eisenhower Expressway, weaving through traffic at 76 miles per hour before exiting onto Sacramento Boulevard and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hardly-working-biden-gets-ice-cream-press-covers-every-second\/\" title=\"Hardly Working: Biden Gets Ice Cream, Press Covers Every Second\">running red lights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She struck five occupied vehicles, got out of the squad car, and ran down the block before cops finally arrested her.<\/p>\n<p>While the case against her was pending, Temple was hired as a lead accountant for Chicago\u2019s Department of Family and Support Services. She was fired in early 2024 after it became public that the city hired someone who was awaiting trial for allegedly trying to murder a Chicago police officer, CWB reported.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of a jury trial, Temple received a bench trial, during which her defense attorney said his client was \u201cin a psychotic state\u201d during the incident, calling it a \u201ctextbook insanity case,\u201d CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/trial-running-over-chicago-police-officer-naked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. He added that Temple\u2019s family had been concerned about her for days before the incident and that she had a \u201cparanoid idea\u201d that people were trying to kill the women in her family.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a high-profile case, Whitley Temple, a Black woman, was acquitted of attempted murder and found not guilty by reason of insanity in a Chicago trial. The incident involved stealing a police car and backing over a white officer. 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