Via American Thinker:

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get a police car to accompany you for “traffic control” when you drive somewhere? It would be sort of like the president, except for the bulletproof limo and Secret Service.

Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, despite lacking any public office, has enjoyed such convenience, courtesy of his son Mustapha, whose arrangements to drive a police car for escorting his father’s “unofficial motorcade” are currently under investigation by a police agency in Illinois. The AP reports:

A state law enforcement agency is investigating the son of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan after a newspaper determined he is a part-time suburban police officer who uses an unmarked squad car to provide traffic control for his father, an official said Monday.

The (Chicago) Sun-Times also reported that Mustapha Farrakhan hasn’t worked a shift for the department in more than four years.

“We opened a preliminary investigation after the Sun-Times told us about their investigation,” said Kevin McClain, the executive director of the Illinois Police Standards and Training Board. (snip)

Harvey Police Chief Denard Eaves described Farrakhan as a “volunteer” police officer, but declined to provide the newspaper any details, saying only in a statement that he “stands behind” Farrakhan’s appointment and that “Officer Farrakhan assists the Police Department with community relations.”