Chicago, IL — A deeply troubling police dash cam video has been kept from the public by the city of Chicago which showed CPD officer Marco Proano, fire into a car occupied by six unarmed teenagers. Police did not want the public to see this video.
City lawyers successfully convinced a federal judge to put the video under the protective order, which prevented parties to the lawsuit from releasing it publicly. However, after watching the video, Retired Cook County Judge Andrew Berman was so disturbed that he leaked it to The Chicago Reporter. Neither Berman nor the Reporter are subject to the order.
“I’ve seen lots of gruesome, grisly crimes,” said. Berman. “But this is disturbing on a whole different level.”
In March, the teens won a federal lawsuit against the city and three police officers, using the video as the center of their case. The city has yet to pay out the $360,000.
According to The Chicago Reporter,
The city’s Independent Police Review Authority, known as IPRA, has not completed its investigation of the incident 18 months later. FBI officials would neither confirm nor deny a Chicago Sun-Times report that the agency is investigating the shooting.
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11 comments:
He's got his gun sideways and above his shoulder?! If he held a gun like that at the police range or in his training or certification they would tell him to turn in his $#%&! He must think he's Rick Grimes and that's a car full of walkers.
3:42 Nothing wrong with that, at all. You would not use it at a gun range, but in the real world, it's a highly effective hold.
Car would not stop, becomes a weapon, shots fired. Good job officer!
4:08 PM troll
4:08 you would have LOVED 1930's-40's Germany then.
4:56 Not a troll, troll. There are applications when firing a weapon tilted 90 degrees is used, and needed, in the real world. Firing from behind a body shield, for example. We won't get into its uses with automatic firearms, I wouldn't want your liberal/anti gun mind to explode.
Did you see the video?! Guess Wicomico got the M-RAP and this guy got an invisible stealth body shield
Anonymous Anonymous said...
4:56 Not a troll, troll. There are applications when firing a weapon tilted 90 degrees is used, and needed, in the real world. Firing from behind a body shield, for example. We won't get into its uses with automatic firearms, I wouldn't want your liberal/anti gun mind to explode.
June 24, 2015 at 5:48 PM
no, ur beneath a troll
All these comments are beyond my comprehension!
Is anyone asking if any of the six victims lived or have permanent injuries?
Or, doesn't anyone care?
Anything on the measly $360k, or $60k per victim?
Is that an okay price for a cop to go in the window of your car and open fire on everybody in there?
Cool, huh?
I'm getting sick here just typing this!
Maybe because they are just nitters?
Yes one got killed, you can see their arm hanging out the door when the cop opens is... There were at least 2 or 3 who were pulled and put on the ground. The others, im sure they were shot too....
I don't see the problem.
9:56.....
I see what you did there.....and I LIKE IT!
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