Cook County Judge Joseph Claps issued the verdict Tuesday in the bench trial of Officer Melvina Bogard, who was charged last year with the nonfatal shooting of Ariel Roman inside the Grand Red Line station.
“Finally some common sense coming out of ,” said John Catanzara, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7, in an email to WTTW News following the verdict. “When police actions are judged with facts by legal minds, generally, this is the outcome.”and other witness videos published online show two officers — Bogard and her partner Bernard Butler — struggling with Roman at the base of a staircase inside the Grand CTA station on Feb. 28, 2020.
Roman turned away from the officers, at which point Butler grabbed him to try and turn him back around, which allegedly led to a physical confrontation. Both officers tried to use their tasers on Roman, but they had no effect, prosecutors said. “As with every case, our office prosecutes cases based on the facts and evidence,” the office said. “The CCSAO will continue prosecuting cases based on the law as we strive to increase safety in our communities across Cook County.”and followed the CPD’s use of force guidelines “by the book."
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