Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan calls gun case against Chicago anti-violence volunteer a 'travesty'

Nakia Smith says he walked into a Far South Side police station to get a gun off the street. Instead, he walked out in handcuffs. Three years later, the 51-year-old anti-violence volunteer is set to go on trial Monday on gun charges that could send him to prison for decades. Smith, a convicted felon, was arrested March 4, 2023, after officers found a loaded .45-caliber handgun in his coat pocket inside the Calumet District police station, 727 E. 111th St. He says he was there to surrender the…