(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — The Chicago Police Board has voted unanimously to fire a police officer who shot and killed a man in 2018 during a foot chase.
The officer, Sheldon Thrasher, was chasing a man believed to have been involved in a drug deal at 47th and Prairie, police said.
Maurice Granton, 24, was climbing a fence when the officer fatally shot him in the back.
Police Supt. David Brown recommended he be fired. He wrote that the use of force “was not necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm from an imminent threat posed to him or another person.”
Brown noted Thrasher wrongly engaged in a verbal altercation with those in a crowd that gathered after the incident and didn’t turn on his body camera until after the shooting.
The city settled a wrongful death suit with Granton’s family for $4.25 million.
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