The Chicago Police Board will begin weighing whether to fire the officer who shot and killed Adam Toledo on May 1, more than two years after the 13-year-old was shot after a brief foot chase.
Carter’s action did not reverse the recommendation of former Police Supt. David Brown, who objected to the recommendation by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, known as COPA, that Stillman be fired for violating the department’s use of force policy by shooting Toledo and violating his training on foot pursuits, according to the report COPA.
Instead, Brown recommended that Stillman be suspended for five days for failing to activate his body-worn camera when required. That disagreement meant it was up to a randomly chosen member of the Chicago Police Board to determine whether Brown met “his burden of overcoming” COPA Chief Administrator Andrea Kersten’s recommendation.
Police Board President Ghian Foreman was randomly chosen to decide whether to uphold the superintendent’s decision or send the matter to the full board. In a four-page ruling, Foreman determined that Brown had not met his burden to overturn Kersten’s recommendation that Stillman be fired. The start of formal termination proceedings against Stillman triggered widespread confusion, with the Toledo family celebrating what their representatives incorrectly interpreted as Carter siding with COPA, and reversing Brown’s refusal to fire Stillman, in a statement released by their lawyers.Two days after Toledo’s death, another Chicago police officer shot and killed 22-year-old Anthony Alvarez after a foot chase.
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