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Officers Fired For Fleeing From Dangerous Scene
Two Officers Terminated, One Under Investigation
(CBS) CHICAGO Their supervisors say when a fellow officer was in trouble at a South Side grocery store, they ran away.
Now, as CBS 2’s Rafael Romo reports, two Chicago Police officers have been forced to turn in their badges, and a third is under investigation.
The officers who were fired by Police Supt. Philip J. Cline were both still in training, with hopes of becoming full-fledged members of the Chicago police force.
But police officials say they failed to take the action required of them as a fellow officer struggled with an armed man at a Dominick’s grocery store.
Police from the Grand Crossing District responded to a shoplifting call at the store, at 2101 E. 71st St., and the suspect was armed and began fighting with an officer.
During the struggle, three other officers turned and ran away. Left alone, the remaining officer shot and killed the armed suspect.
The events were all caught on surveillance video, police said.
The two officers, both women, were both about 10 months into their 18-month probationary period before they could have become full-fledged officers with union benefits. They are called PPOs in police parlance. The third officer, a man, had just finished his probation and may be fired.
“Based on the evidence I looked at for the two probationary police officers, I decided to fire them, and there's an investigation going into the third officer,” Cline said, “He's been stripped of his police powers.”
Cline can fire probationary officers at will, but full-fledged officers have extensive due-process rights.
The incident was captured on a Dominick’s security camera and was reviewed by department officials. The videotape may be used to show recruits at the police academy what officers should never do.
The man who was ultimately shot was arrested on a call that he and a woman were stealing sunglasses. When officers tried to take the man into custody and question him, he pulled away with his left hand handcuffed and his right hand in his pocket, police said.
The man pulled his hand out of his pocket gripping a handgun, and was shot by the officers, police said. He was identified as James King, 47, of Park Forest.
An officer suffered minor injuries during the struggle, but no store employees were injured, police said.
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PROTECT and SERVE, not Cower and Run
These scum wouldnt back up thier own, imagine where a citizen in trouble stands
Two Officers Terminated, One Under Investigation
(CBS) CHICAGO Their supervisors say when a fellow officer was in trouble at a South Side grocery store, they ran away.
Now, as CBS 2’s Rafael Romo reports, two Chicago Police officers have been forced to turn in their badges, and a third is under investigation.
The officers who were fired by Police Supt. Philip J. Cline were both still in training, with hopes of becoming full-fledged members of the Chicago police force.
But police officials say they failed to take the action required of them as a fellow officer struggled with an armed man at a Dominick’s grocery store.
Police from the Grand Crossing District responded to a shoplifting call at the store, at 2101 E. 71st St., and the suspect was armed and began fighting with an officer.
During the struggle, three other officers turned and ran away. Left alone, the remaining officer shot and killed the armed suspect.
The events were all caught on surveillance video, police said.
The two officers, both women, were both about 10 months into their 18-month probationary period before they could have become full-fledged officers with union benefits. They are called PPOs in police parlance. The third officer, a man, had just finished his probation and may be fired.
“Based on the evidence I looked at for the two probationary police officers, I decided to fire them, and there's an investigation going into the third officer,” Cline said, “He's been stripped of his police powers.”
Cline can fire probationary officers at will, but full-fledged officers have extensive due-process rights.
The incident was captured on a Dominick’s security camera and was reviewed by department officials. The videotape may be used to show recruits at the police academy what officers should never do.
The man who was ultimately shot was arrested on a call that he and a woman were stealing sunglasses. When officers tried to take the man into custody and question him, he pulled away with his left hand handcuffed and his right hand in his pocket, police said.
The man pulled his hand out of his pocket gripping a handgun, and was shot by the officers, police said. He was identified as James King, 47, of Park Forest.
An officer suffered minor injuries during the struggle, but no store employees were injured, police said.
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PROTECT and SERVE, not Cower and Run These scum wouldnt back up thier own, imagine where a citizen in trouble stands
Maybe you should check with your fellow officers
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