Police brass do not make a practice of criticizing their chief in public, especially in testimony before the city council. In my 36 years covering the D.C. cops, through eight chiefs, not once can I recall a commander speaking out against the boss. So when Hilton Burton, commander of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Special Operations Division, contradicted Chief Cathy Lanier before the Judiciary Committee on Thursday, I knew we hadn’t heard the last of it.

Lanier was swift to tell reporters Burton had lied during his testimony.

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