A federal lawsuit accuses a Chicago police officer of using 'unprovoked and unwarranted' force and violating the department's foot chase policy when they shot and killed Reginald Clay Jr. over the weekend.
A Lawndale, Chicago police shooting left an armed man shot and killed in the 3800 block of West Flournoy Street on Saturday.A federal lawsuit accuses a Chicago police officer of using "unprovoked and unwarranted" force and violating the department's foot chase policy when they shot and killed Reginald Clay Jr. over the weekend in Garfield Park.The officer "chased him down and shot him several times, despite no need for this use of deadly force," the lawsuit states.
Neither the department nor COPA describes Clay holding the gun when he was shot, though CPD Deputy Chief Rahman Muhammad told reporters on the scene that Clay turned toward the officer and "brandished a handgun."In addition to the use of excessive force, the lawsuit accuses the officer of breaking the department's new, more stringent rules governing foot chases because there was no apparent reason to pursue him.
The lawsuit says Clay was heading to a friend's funeral when he was shot. "Clay Jr. later succumbed to his gunshot wounds and died, leaving loving parents and a 3-year-old daughter who now must grow up without her father," the family's lawyer wrote.
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