(MCT) — CHICAGO — Within days of an off-duty Chicago police officer attacking a female bartender in February 2007, the department’s brass gathered in a conference room to watch a videotape of the beating captured by a security camera inside the Chicago bar.

The group, including two deputy superintendents, the chief of staff, director of media affairs and heads of Internal Affairs and the Office of Professional Standards, described the now-infamous images to then-Superintendent Philip Cline by speaker phone since he was out of town, according to testimony Monday at a federal trial.