Article updated: 11/13/2012 11:36 PM

Jury finds for bartender in Chicago police beating trial

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In this June 23, 2009 file photo Karolina Obrycka, right, with her attorney Terry Ekl, speaks outside the Cook County courthouse in Chicago, after Chicago police officer Anthony Abbate was sentenced to two years probation and anger management classes for the videotaped attack against her that went viral on the internet. On Tuesday, jurors at a federal civil trial found that Chicago police adhered to a code of silence protecting fellow officers in the case brought by a Obrycka. The jurors awarded the Obrycka $850,000 in damages.

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Chicago police adhere to a code of silence protecting fellow officers, a federal jury ruled Tuesday in a lawsuit filed by a female bartender whose videotaped beating by a drunken off-duty officer went viral online. Jurors awarded $850,000 in damages to the bartender, Karolina Obrycka, who was beaten in February 2007 after she refused to keep serving Anthony Abbate, who was off-duty and admittedly drunk at the time.

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