While it is possible that some officers may not have filed reports before the end of the month, especially for uses of force late on May 31, University of Chicago law professor Craig Futterman, who runs the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project, pointed out that CPD directives call for use-of-force reports to be filed before the end of an officer's shift. He also raised concerns about the lack of action from CPD supervisors who witnessed the baton strikes. "The machine of denial still exists . . . not just by rank-and-file officers covering for one another, but something that goes all the way up the chain of command," he said.

Excessive force at protests was also not limited to batons. Videos showed instances of officers punching protesters, driving their cars through crowds of protesters, and in one case, reaching into a crowd to grab a woman by the hair and pull her toward officers. Several videos also show arrests where officers tackled protesters who were not resisting or fleeing, another violation of department rules.

Futterman also expressed concern about the implications of police violence at protests for policing in Chicago's neighborhoods. "If the kind of police violence that we saw during the protests occurs so brazenly out in the open," he asked, "what's happening in Black and Brown neighborhoods outside of the cameras?"

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