A former Illinois police chief accused of drunk driving and causing an accident tore into cops in a profanity-laced tirade as he resisted arrest and was forcefully taken into custody, wild bodycam footage shows.
Former Bridgeview Chief of Police Walter Klimek was captured on camera hollering and hurling obscenities at members of the Justice Police Department before he was dragged out of his vehicle by multiple cops during the drunken kerfuffle on Dec. 27, 2024, according to footage obtained by The Post.
“Come on, let me go!” a hostile Klimek repeatedly yelled at cops in the driver’s seat of his airbag-deployed Buick while honking his horn, the footage shows.
“What the f–k is this all about?”
Police responded to the scene following a high-speed crash in which Klimek allegedly struck a guard rail, spun out and then slammed into another car, injuring a passenger who was later hospitalized, according to police, who described the inebriated suspect as hostile and uncooperative.
