The officer resigned this week instead of facing a possible termination after a COPA investigation.
– A Chicago activist criticized the Chicago police officer who was caught on camera hitting her during a protest in July 2020 for resigning before facing possible discipline.
Video from that protest showed Officer Nicholas Jovanovich hitting a cell phone out of the hand of Miracle Boyd.Boyd spoke out on Friday after learning the officer"Yet again, CPD served a miscarriage of justice to myself and the Black and brown youth across the country," Boyd said."Police Officer Nicholas Jovanovich has chosen to escape accountability after patrolling our neighborhoods for more than a year after assaulting me.
Jovanovich was facing possible termination after an investigation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, or COPA, but quit instead this week.
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