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Chicago to pay $3.2 million to settle two fatal police shooting cases
Source: Reuters
World | Wed May 18, 2016 6:05pm EDT
Chicago to pay $3.2 million to settle two fatal police shooting cases
CHICAGO | BY JUSTIN MADDEN
Chicago on Wednesday agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle cases where a black man and a Hispanic man were each fatally shot by police officers who were part of a department now under fire for racial bias and the excessive use of force.
The settlements come as the third-biggest U.S. city's police department grapples with a strained relationship between officers and minority communities, and a federal probe that was launched after the release last fall of a video showing a white police officer fatally shooting a black teenager.
Chicago has paid more than $500 million in police misconduct payments since 2004, said Bill McCaffrey, a spokesman for the city's law department.
On Wednesday, Chicago's city council agreed to pay the family of Ryan Rogers $1 million.
Rogers, a 27-year-old father of two, was shot in 2013 after he tried to drive away from his East Hazel Crest apartment, which police had been staking out as part of an investigation into a cellphone robbery ring, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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Chicago to pay $3.2 million to settle two fatal police shooting cases
CHICAGO | BY JUSTIN MADDEN
Chicago on Wednesday agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle cases where a black man and a Hispanic man were each fatally shot by police officers who were part of a department now under fire for racial bias and the excessive use of force.
The settlements come as the third-biggest U.S. city's police department grapples with a strained relationship between officers and minority communities, and a federal probe that was launched after the release last fall of a video showing a white police officer fatally shooting a black teenager.
Chicago has paid more than $500 million in police misconduct payments since 2004, said Bill McCaffrey, a spokesman for the city's law department.
On Wednesday, Chicago's city council agreed to pay the family of Ryan Rogers $1 million.
Rogers, a 27-year-old father of two, was shot in 2013 after he tried to drive away from his East Hazel Crest apartment, which police had been staking out as part of an investigation into a cellphone robbery ring, according to the Chicago Tribune.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chicago-police-idUSKCN0Y92XD
