Pressure Grows For McCarthy To Dismiss Cop Who Fired Fatal Shot Into Crowd
(CBS) – More than 100 demonstrators gathered outside a meeting of the Police Review Board demanding that Chicago Police Officer Dante Servin be fired.
In 2012, in the Douglas Park neighborhood, Servin shot into a crowd and killed Rekia Boyd, who was unarmed. Servin was acquitted by a judge on a technicality, but the Independent Police Review Authority recommended that he lose his job as a cop.
It is not final, and is considered Supt. Garry McCarthy's call to make.
He was not at Thursday night's Police Board meeting.
Boyd's brother, Martinez Sutton, is worried about what McCarthy will do, based on his previous comments about the case.
McCarthy has 90 days to make a decision.
