A federal jury is set to decide whether Chicago police officers violated the civil rights of the Chicago man they shot during a February 2020 incident in the Grand Red Line CTA station, records show.
Former Chicago Police Officer Melvina Bogard was acquitted in November 2022 on criminal charges of aggravated battery and official misconduct for shooting Ariel Roman during rush hour at one of the city’s busiest train stations.
But the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, the agency charged with investigating police misconduct, determined the shooting violated department policy and was unjustified. The agency better known as COPA urged that Bogard, and her partner, Officer Bernard Butler, be fired. Chicago Police Supt. David Brown agreed…