Former Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling determined an officer who broke down his girlfriend’s door, hurled racial and homophobic slurs at her and then destroyed items throughout her home while drunk should be fired, records show.
While the Civilian Office of Police Accountability recommended that Officer Jose Rodriguez be suspended for less than 90 days for his conduct, Snelling overruled that recommendation, determining that was not suitable “due to the seriousness of the misconduct.”
“The appropriate penalty should be separation,” Snelling wrote in a letter dated Oct. 30, 2025…