Review board recommends Chicago cop be fired for off-duty shooting - Chicago Tribune

SportsPlus delivers premium coverage to those who take it like a fan >> >" data-socialshare-slug="ct-get-unlimited-access-to-everything-bears-and-chicago-sports-with-sportsplus-sign-up-today-20150812" data-socialshare-content="storylink"... The Independent Police Review Authority found that the off-duty officer was "inattentive to duty" when he fired 16 shots at the wrong car moments after a drive-by shooting outside a Mexican restaurant in the East Ukrainian Village neighborhood in... The case against the officer hinges largely on video footage obtained from a surveillance camera at the restaurant that IPRA said clearly showed a red Mitsubishi Galant had fled the drive-by shooting by the time the officer opened fire at a blue... Even after viewing the video earlier this year, the officer stuck by his original statement that he had fired at the red car, prompting IPRA to recommend that he be fired as well for making false statements to investigators. When IPRA confronted him with the recordings, the officer claimed that bystanders had given him the description of the blue Chrysler after the shooting had occurred. Source: www.chicagotribune.com