He Called The Police Because His Girlfriend Was Trying To Stab Him...And Then The Cops DID THIS!

He Called The Police Because His Girlfriend Was Trying To Stab Him...And Then The Cops DID THIS!

The Chicago police officer who fatally shot a 61-year-old man inside his Gresham apartment last month had faced termination after a 2016 arrest on assault charges stemming from a drunken off-duty encounter with police. Former Police Supt. Eddie Johnson had moved to fire the officer, but he was reinstated by unanimous vote of the Police Board, which noted the officer had immediately entered treatment for alcohol abuse and had been cleared for duty by a psychologist. But at a news conference outside City Hall Friday, lawyers for the family of Michael Craig questioned whether the officer was fit for duty based on records from his 2016 disciplinary hearing and the officer’s “erratic” behavior in the Oct. 4 shooting that killed Craig. Craig had called police the morning he was shot, claiming his wife was holding a knife to his throat. When the officer entered Craig’s apartment, after Craig had shouted that his wife was threatening him with a butcher knife, the officer shot Craig as he and his wife darted across a hallway across the room from the officer.

Oshay Duke Jackson