The family of a man killed last year in the West Side Shootout with Chicago police officers has reached a $ 1.25 million settlement agreement with the city.
The disposal proposed by the city lawyers for Dexter Reid’s family is still subject to approval by Aldermen. In recent years, a group of police supporters Aldermen examined the cases of the city lawyers, which instead of taking those cases to testing those cases to settle the cases arising out of alleged police misconduct.
Alderman will also deal with a $ 27 million for a woman’s family, who was collided with a car being followed by the authorities in the alleged violation of the CPD’s No-Chass Policy and later died of injuries.
In March 2024, 26 -year -old Reid was killed in a hail of bullets after shooting a CPD officer in 3800 blocks of West Ferdinand. The injured officer was part of a team of Sadekloths strategic officials handed over to Harrison district of CPD. CPD officials earlier said that Reid’s car was pulled for a seatbelt violation.
All said, five officers fired at least 79 rounds, which were first according to the records made public by the civil office of the police office. A dead body conducted by the office of Cook County Medical Examiner found that Reid was shot 13 times.
CPD body-vorn camera footage issued by CPD, which was released earlier by Copa, shows the authorities to get out of a police vehicle, attracts their weapons and repeatedly reed Reed’s tinted windows of their SUVs Order to roll. Reid initially complied with and rolled out his window, but appeared disobeying the orders of the authorities to roll the window down towards the passenger.
After the moments, the Reed appeared to shoot the officer standing on the passenger side of the SUV. The other four officials again set fire to dozens of rounds in Reid, who got out of the vehicle before falling on the pavement. An official fired three more shots on Reid as he was sedentary on the road.
The officer – only 23 years old – removed at least 50 times during 41 second bullets. He was one of the three officers who re -loaded their weapons, according to Copa.
In a letter written a few days after the shooting to CPD Superintendent Larry Snelling, Copa Chief Administrator Andrew Caresten revealed that the agency started another investigation in the same group of officers in less than a month than Reed Shooting. . The investigation, Kerson, said, “an allegation of inappropriate discovery and confiscation included” it was allegedly based on a seatbelt violation. ”
In recent weeks, the Community Commission has held auditory sessions related to the use of traffic stops of CPD officials for public safety and accountability. At the end of last year, the monitoring team which assesses compliance with the federal consent decree recommended that the traffic stop also be subject to the correction of CPD. The judge, who oversees the decree, has not yet worked on that recommendation.
In addition to the reed settlement, City Attorney is also recommending Aldermen, approve the $ 27 million deal for the family of Angela Parks.
According to his family trial against the city, in August 2020, the parks were killed by a jeep by police officer Ricardo Tennyu. Suspecting the theft of the jeep, Tenayuk chased it, chasing the car, violating strict rules of the department, without its sirens.
Jeep hit the parks at a armor square neighborhood intersection. According to the trial, he broke his neck and broke his spine when he hit the pavement and made the quadrilateral to the quadrilateral before he died of his injuries in February 2022.
As part of the settlement, the city will pay $ 20 million to the park’s family, while its insurance provider will pay $ 7 million.