A Chicago police officer who shoved a woman who called 911 for help after her boyfriend beat and suffocated her more than six years ago will not be fired by city officials, according to records published Thursday.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability urged former Chicago police Supt. Larry Snelling to fire Officer Brian Purtell for treating the woman disrespectfully and shoving her into a bank of kitchen cabinets, causing her to strike her head, records show.
The woman was arrested after the altercation with the officer after her boyfriend told officers she had hit him, too, records show. Purtell and his partner repeatedly violated CPD’s policy for handling violent incidents between intimate partners, the agency better known as COPA concluded. Snelling agreed with that conclusion…