A black woman 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.
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 reported. Temple is now required to follow a treatment plan instead of serving time in prison.
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’s name over and over, and then walked around him to get behind the wheel of his patrol car.
Poppish tried to stop her, but she allegedly responded: “Let me go. This has nothing to…
