A Chicago police officer who repeatedly used racial slurs while on duty should be fired, the agency tasked with investigating police misconduct and former Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling agreed, records show.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability determined that not only did Officer John Kaporis repeatedly use anti-Black and anti-gay slurs while on duty on April 12, 2022, he used a racial slur to refer to a Black dispatcher after being sent to investigate a car crash, a finding endorsed by Snelling, according to records obtained by WTTW News through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Kaporis, who had been a police officer for more than 26 years at the time of the incident, was captured using the slurs by the in-car camera system of his police vehicle while patrolling alone, records show. The video was randomly reviewed by a supervisor, who reported Kaporis’ decision to use an anti-Black slur three times in less than 20 minutes to investigators, records show…