Off Duty: a new series on a fight for justice from Guardian Investigates – trailer

Off Duty | The Guardian Investigates

The Guardian

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

In 2011, a Chicago police officer is murdered. Police find four suspects. Three confess. But the fourth refuses to break. He’ll embark on a 12-year battle to prove his innocence, against a system that refuses to admit it might be wrong. The latest podcast series from Guardian Investigates. Coming soon

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0:00.0	Chicago, 2011.
0:04.0	A cop is murdered.
0:06.0	Police and prosecutors swear they have the killers.
0:09.0	They swear they didn't do it.
0:11.0	How far will each side go to prove their right?
0:14.0	Like it's just one bombshell after another, you know, where you're like, what?
0:19.0	What?
0:20.0	Off duty, the story of crucial evidence locked away for years
0:23.3	on a playstation gathering dust i told and i said to grab my game my game gonna prove to y'all of witnesses
0:30.6	being taken out but not in the way you might think your expert gets a brain eatingeating amoeba? That's next level.
0:38.0	Safeguards will fail.
0:39.7	Hearts will break.
0:41.3	Institutions will crack.
0:43.5	Not everyone will survive.
0:46.2	Off duty.
0:47.6	Coming soon.
0:49.6	Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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