Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, April 19, 2017.
Jury awards $350,000 to family of teen boy fatally shot by Chicago police officer
A jury awarded $350,000 in damages to the family of Christian Green, who was shot to death by Chicago police officer Robert Gonzalez in July 2013. The jurors found that Gonzalez did not reasonably believe that the 17-year-old Green’s actions “placed himself or others in imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm.” The defense team was happy with the ruling even though the monetary award was less than they wanted. “But it still moved the ball forward for everybody that’s in the city of Chicago who believes that justice should be color-blind and that the police officers should be fair and play it down the middle,” the family’s lead attorney, Victor Henderson, said. “We are disappointed in the jury’s verdict and are considering our legal options,” Chicago Law Department spokesman Bill McCaffrey said in a statement. [Sun-Times]
