CHICAGO (AP) — A court has rejected an effort by a former Chicago police officer to get his job back after he was fired for his role in the fatal shooting of a bystander.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports Saturday that the Illinois Appellate Court ruled Friday that the disciplinary process was fair and that there was cause for the firing.
Then-Officer Robert Rialmo fatally shot 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones in an apartment building in 2015. Rialmo claimed LeGrier was attacking him with a bat when he fired.
A police board determined Rialmo could have repositioned himself to avoid shooting Jones and fired him in 2019. Rialmo’s attorneys sued, but a Cook County judge rejected the lawsuit.
