Shots fired at us with the emergency. You have the air off. There are presently over 3,000 women serving in the ranks of the Chicago Police Department. Female officers go up against some of the most violent criminal men in the country, sometimes twice their size. And this puts them at a biological disadvantage when it comes to the physical aspect of policing men. And this is why female cops put much more on the line than their male counterparts. The women of the CPD are some of the toughest female cops in the country and they are forced to prove it every day. We are tracking breaking news tonight. Another mass shooting in Chicago. 14 people shot, including six women in the city's Gresham neighborhood. The need for more female cops is evident based on the number of women and teen girls getting involved in gang and criminal activities. Over the past couple of decades, an increasing number have been shot and killed across the city. From 2016 through 2022, 559 women and teen girls were shot and killed. and 2,878 were shot and wounded. Gathered by candlelight, family and friends mourned two sisters gunned down in an ambush attack at a house party in Englewood. The past 3 years show a 20% increase in shootings and homicides of women. These targeted killings of women are being done mostly by men and are presently spiraling out of control. Search is underway tonight for the shooter who took the life of a woman and wounded her sister as well. Shooting happened last night in Little Village. I have found female cops are easier for victims and suspects to talk to than men. And this is because of the difference in demeanor between the two. And for these reasons and many others, there is a push for more female cops to join the ranks of the Chicago Police Department. A horrific murder outside Chicago where authorities say an expectant young mother was kidnapped, killed, and her baby taken from her womb. According to detectives, the mother and daughter team successfully strangling Mareno Choa Lopez for close to five minutes before her body went limp and then they went in for the unborn baby with a butcher knife, according to investigators. There are many pitfalls to being a female cop here in Chicago, but the worst one is bearing witness to the exploitation and murders of children. Because women create life and have a higher emotional threshold than men, these horrific experiences are more damaging to women than men. I often wondered why women would want to be part of such a dangerous and violent profession. And during the early years of my coverage of the shootings and killings, I realized it was about bringing a balance to policing consisting of compassion because this was missing from policing from the very beginning. Where's the lady? You're the only one that's the only one. Now, let's take a look at how violent some young women are becoming and also look at some of the situations female cops in the line of duty find themselves in. Car 762 got a 101 1500 car station in the line of duty. Cops are finding out that the next generation of young women are following in the violent footsteps of the young men. This non-fatal police involved shooting took place on January 9th, 2021 on the 1500 block of South Carlo Avenue in the Lawndale neighborhood. Three Chicago cops from the community safety team were on patrol when they spotted a vehicle illegally parked in front of a fire. Right. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I I ain't going to let my leg [ __ ] up. All right. Well, get you still have to come out the vehicle once I tell you to step out the vehicle. you have to step out the vehicle. The cops decided to check them out and walked up to the car and asked the driver for her license. She was unable to provide a driver's license. So, cops asked them to get out of the car. The two men got out, but the driver, 20-year-old Keshuana Davidson, refused. Come on, let's go today. Shy. The lead cop ordered her to step out of the car, and she just sat there in the driver's seat with the door open with a smartphone in her hand, texting, ignoring the cop's repeated commands to get out of the car. Davidson said she had an injured leg, so the cop tried to help her out of the car, and she reached to her right side and grabbed a gun. The lead cop quickly backed away from the car, and Davidson supposedly pointed the gun at one of the cops. This cannot be seen in the video. Cops immediately backed off and took cover. That's when the passenger side cop opened fire and the second cop followed and opened fire through the police SUV into her car. Between them, they fired a total of 19 rounds at Davidson. She was struck four times. She was shot from two directions and can be seen bouncing back and forth violently in the car as the bullet struck her. Set fire. She was removed from the car and was taken by ambulance to Mount Sinai Hospital in critical condition. She was eventually stabilized. Cops found her handgun in the grass outside the passenger door. Slow down. Slow down. Davidson can be seen in the car throwing the 9 mm handgun out the passenger door while cops were firing at her into the vehicle. The two men in the car with her were not charged and were released. Davidson was charged with multiple felonies and ordered held on a $70,000 bond. And the gun Davidson had in her possession was not loaded. But cops had no way of knowing this at the time. I saw it out the window, too. Did you see it? Yeah, I know. I know. I know. I know. There are three reasons why Davidson would not get out of the car. She could not produce a driver's license and was on parole for a 2019 conviction, aggravated battery against a police officer. And she was a convicted felon that had a weapon in her possession while on parole and most likely did not want to go back to prison. And it looks as though it was an attempt at suicide by cops. I have a couple of issues with this shooting. The first thing is the optics of this shooting are terrible. When the lead cop went to grab her and started to help her out of the car, he had the opportunity to grab the arm holding the gun on her side while his hands were on her, but he didn't. Instead of reaching, he panicked, backed up, and drew his weapon. Up to this point, she did not point the gun at the cop. He just seen it along her side in her hand. It was more dangerous to retreat than it was to grab her arm that was inches away holding the gun. All three cops ended up with the tactical advantage when they retreated to the rear of her vehicle. During this time, cops claimed she pointed the gun at the passenger cop, but she never fired a shot. Then the cop on the passenger side opened fire first and then the other cop fired too. Let me see your hands. One shot fire. Set fire. 19 shots in total were fired and they took cover for nearly two minutes shouting commands. Now, if she pointed the gun at them, they had authorization to shoot her, but they didn't have to. They chose to. What they should have done was pulled the guys from the back of the vehicle to safety during the retreat and took cover and waited to see if she would fire at them. But they didn't do this either. It's clear fear was the procedure they were following and it blocked basic common sense policing. This shooting has been classified questionable because we cannot see the actual level of threat posed by the suspect. It is clear the reactions of cops show this was a survival driven response and this was also a rejection of insane protocol that wants cops to be fired upon first before they return fire because if they don't they will face heavy scrutiny from COPA the political leadership and the media. Fire. Satisfire. Hello. In the line of duty, a routine traffic stop can turn out to be anything but routine. On November 28th of 2017, a pair of female cops executed a traffic stop for an expired plate. They ran the info the man provided and quickly realized it was not his picture on the license. I might have you walk up though cuz I can't tell if this looks like him at all. Can you ask for another form of identification? You want to give me this? So, the cop then walked back up to the man's vehicle and asked him if he had another form of identification. He said he did not. So, she asked him to exit the vehicle and he did. Mr. Michaels, do you have another form of identification on you? No. No. You don't? You have nothing on you with your name on it? Debit card, credit card, anything? No. No. No. I'm going to ask you to step out of the car first. She started taking out the cuffs and he took off running and she chased him for about 2 minutes until she saw him duck into a backyard and found him hiding under the stairs of a deck. She then pulled her taser out and told him at least a dozen times to put his hands up. All right, put your hands up. Once he came out, she made him turn around. Put your hands up. And he still was not listening. Put your hands up, sir. And reached for something in his pocket. Keep your hands up. Yes. Put your hands up, sir. Step up the stairs. Come up the stairs. All the way at the stairs. In the alley. In the alley. Still on 79th. That car I spoke to. If they can come back to that yard. Put your hands in the air. Okay. Put your hands in the air. Come up the steps. Turn around. Turn around. Keep your hands up. Turn around. Keep your hands up. He pulled his hand out and just stood there with his back to her while she had her taser targeted on his back. Keep your hands. Then he dropped his hands down and tried to scale the fence. And when he got to the top of the fence, she tased him and he went down head first on the concrete. Keep your hands up, sir. Keep them up. Where you at? Sir, I'm going to tase you. Taser. Taser. Taser deployed. Taser deployed. Watch out. Watch out. Then a male cops showed up and tried to cuff him. And once again, he did not comply and fought the male cop. And then two other female cops showed up and all of them finally got him cuffed and took him into custody. There are a couple of things wrong with this incident. Number one, the chase should have never happened because she should have been on the other side of the SUV like her partner was in the beginning before the man was told to exit the vehicle. This would have cut off his escape route. And the other thing is when she caught him, she allowed him to put his hand in his pocket. Had he pulled a gun or a knife out, that taser would not have been enough to stop him. And this could have cost her her life because she did not have her weapon in her left hand to back up the taser. Instead, she had her handcuffs in that hand. Watching this video, one would think the taser stopped him. It didn't. He hit his head because his foot got caught in the fence. Then he fell from the top of the fence head first. knocking him out until the male cop arrived. All in all, this was a clean apprehension by the lady cop, and she deserves credit for exercising extreme restraint with this non-compliant suspect that she doggedly chased until she caught up with him and confronted him without backup. I strongly believe these tasers are a double-edged sword that will one day end up costing one of these cops their lives. This situation could have turned out much differently for all involved because simple protocol at the very beginning was not followed by these cops. He was left with a way out by cop number two. Cops know the most dangerous time is walking up to a vehicle and the second most dangerous time is removing a suspect from a vehicle. The suspect also contributed by risking his life over a minor warrant. Now, this suspect has additional charges to deal with, plus the old warrant. There is not a day that goes by in Chicago that cops aren't chasing a fleeing suspect. And this practice of chasing suspects on foot would change a couple of years later. Circumstances within situations like this is how police involved shootings start. Yeah, it is a shot. In the line of duty, female cops are sometimes forced to fight it out with a violent male suspect. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Come here. Come here. Hey, I ain't playing with you, dude. I'm going to tase you in like two seconds. I ain't even [ __ ] around with you. On the morning of October 5th of 2016, cops responded to an accident call at Roosevelt and Cicero in the Austin neighborhood. When they arrived on the scene, they could clearly see a car hit the liquor store. A Cook County Sheriff's officer immediately pointed out 28-year-old Parta Huff walking east down Roosevelt Road away from the accident scene. Both cops jumped out of the squad and confronted Huff. At first, they thought he was injured or dazed from the accident. They asked him to stop and he kept walking. As they got close, they could see he was whacked out on something or very drunk. So, they attempted to take him into custody and he became combative and began struggling to get away. And the situation quickly escalated. So they tased him and when she pulled the cuffs out and got one cuff on his wrist, she held on to the other end of the cuff while the male cop tried to take him down from behind but failed. And the fight then moved out to the middle of the street where all three hit the ground after Huff punched her in the head a couple of times, knocking her to the ground. He had her hair wrapped around his hand and then began smashing her head into the pavement over and over. A female Cook County Sheriff quickly jumped in to assist, but Huff refused to let go of her hair. He held on for dear life as her partner pepper sprayed him and tased him repeatedly. And none of this worked. And during the struggle, squad after squad showed up and joined the fight. let go. We're taking When all of this failed, her partner started to repeatedly punch him in the face and basically beat him to a pulp. And he still wouldn't let go. And after 4 minutes, it took an army of cops to get him under control. And finally, he let her hair go. It was later revealed why Huff was so hard to take down. He tested positive for PCP. And on the same day of this incident, he appeared in court on a battery charge on a cop from Forest Park. CPD brass said the female officer suffered a severe concussion, a chip bone in her shoulder, a wrist and neck injury, and had to have pieces of concrete removed from her face, and big clumps of her hair were pulled from her scalp. And her partner suffered minor injuries. Officer Veronica Marillo was in the hospital for more than a month and was placed on permanent disability. Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson spoke with the injured officer at the hospital and she told him she thought she was going to die at the hands of this man and knew she had to shoot this guy but chose not to because she didn't want her family or the department to have to go through the scrutiny from the national media. Huff was held without bail on charges of attempted murder and aggravated battery to a police officer. and officer Veronica Marillo was left with a traumatic brain injury and several other injuries. In 2021, Huff was not convicted of attempted murder, which he was originally charged with. Instead, the charge was lowered to aggravated battery and resisting arrest. So, he was sentenced to 15 years for Marillo's assault and 5 years for attacking her partner. He sustained less serious injuries. In total, Huff got 20 years. It is clear the length of officer Marillo's hair nearly cost her her life. Decades ago, the Chicago Police Department had rules on hair lengths, and the changing of those rules were meant to be inclusive. And now, officer Veronica Marillo is very aware why the old rule was originally put in place. Both officers fought this man the best they could under the circumstances. And I believe the half measure taken in this incident nearly cost this officer her life. And her inaction can be directly attributed to officer van Dijk's shooting of Laquan McDonald. And this is proof that the Laquan McDonald's shooting is now negatively affecting cops decision making in Chicago. In 2017, Chicago Police Officer Veronica Marillo and her partner, Officer George Misawa, received the Carter Harrison Award. It is the Chicago Police Department's highest honor for bravery. In the line of duty, cops sometimes arrive while the robbery is still in progress. I can't reach that [ __ ] hand. [Music] Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Get underneath. Got a hold of I got to sleep. I got to sleep. There it is. There it is. I got his hand. I got his hand. This non-fatal police involved shooting took place after cops responded to an armed robbery in progress at a sitgo gas station on the 1000 block of North Cicero Avenue in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. Cops were about a block away when the call came over the radio and they showed up while the robbery was in progress. When they entered the station, there were two robbery suspects inside and they told the man with the gun to drop [Applause] it. disarming him. The second suspect fled out the back and hopped the fence and disappeared into the night. Cops searched high and low for him, but they had no luck finding him. Spot. And the suspect that was shot fought cops and would not let them cuff him. But eventually cops gained control of him and he was taken into custody. No cops were injured in this incident. Multiple shell casings and a handgun were recovered from the scene and taken as evidence. The unidentified 27year-old man was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition and was later charged with many felonies. This shooting was investigated by IRA, the independent police review authority. This shooting has been categorized as justified because the suspect refused police commands and was using a weapon in a felony robbery. And all of this combined left the female cop with no choice but to shoot him. [Applause] Rob the dollar store with an empty Hennessy bottle. Mail [Applause] block with a knife. Same offender. But look for either a Family Dollar or a Dollar General. He said he was kind of slow. What? I couldn't hear. Yeah, he said he's kind of slow. Maybe mentally, but you be like me. In the line of duty, cops are forced to deal with the same criminal suspects over and over again. This fatal police involved shooting took place on January 4th of 2020 at East 79th Street and Marquette Road in the Southshore neighborhood. Cops responded to a robbery call at a dollar store and were told by dispatch the robbery suspect is possibly armed with a knife and was slow. When cops arrived at the store, they spoke to a robbery victim who gave them a description of the robbery suspect and the direction he fled in. Cops immediately caught up to the suspect, 25-year-old Tyrie Davis, with a large knife in one hand and a glass bottle in the other hand, running down the street. They got out of the police SUV and chased him for about two blocks. While running, the male officer leading the chase kept yelling out commands to stop and dropped the knife and he refused and continued running and they caught up with him on the corner in front of Margarita's [Applause] Pizzeria. Davis was told again to drop the knife by the female cop and her partner, and he refused. So, the female cop tased Davis twice, but it did not stop him. It basically just made him mad and he turned and charged at the female cop and got within a couple of feet of her. So, her partner fired three shots at Davis at the exact moment he was lunging towards her. Davis was clearly trying to stab her. He was waving the knife out in front of him in a slashing type motion as he approached her with each lunging step. Two other cops arrived on the scene as the shots were being fired. Heading westbound. The cop that shot him rendered aid to Davis and then called an ambulance which took him in grave condition to the University of Chicago Hospital where he died a short time later. The officers involved will be placed on routine administrative duties for a period of 30 days. And once again, we see how the non-lethal taser failed. If it had not been for her partner shooting him, he would have slashed her in the throat or the face with that 10-in knife. The truth is, the taser policy gives violent criminals the edge and endangers the lives of cops. It's basically a roll of the dice to see if it works and if it don't, cops can get hurt or killed. In 2017, Davis was admitted to Mercy Hospital for what they claimed was a bipolar type illness. He was prescribed medication for depression and mood disorders. There is a big issue today with medicating people with psychotropic drugs that mix them with illegal drugs and alcohol. And sometimes they just stop taking their medication altogether. And all of this combined is clearly having far worse consequences than the illness itself. Could these reasons be why some seek death at the hands of cops? It is sure starting to look that way. And when did mental illness become an excuse for all types of criminal behavior? Court records showed Davis had been arrested more than 50 times for mostly minor crimes. Except in 2018, his criminal behavior escalated when he plead guilty to aggravated battery to a police officer and was sentenced to 3 years in prison. Davis was parrolled on December 20th of 2020, 2 weeks before he was killed. And I wonder why the courts put him in prison. If he was genuinely mentally ill, then why wasn't he put in a mental hospital where he could receive treatment instead? It looks as though the system let Davis down when they released him back onto the streets, leaving the cops to deal with him. When police involved shootings like this happen, sometimes the public reacts from a deeply emotional standpoint. In this case, it was a woman that recorded the aftermath of the shooting and a man that witnessed the shooting. Both people either intentionally or unintentionally incited people in the community with their misleading statements and incomplete videos. No. What the Oh my god. No. They shot him. They shot him. They shot you. They shot him. Oh my god. They killed this boy. He's [ __ ] dead. They shot him. Oh my god. Oh my god. That boy is [ __ ] dead. He's not [ __ ] breathing. A man I call Mr. R is an activist and a president of some justice-driven organization in the community. He said he was leaving a nearby beauty supply store when he witnessed the shooting. He said that's the real problem we have in our community. The officer didn't appear to be in danger. The other police officer arrived and didn't readily assess and began shooting. He went on to say, "I saw him tased and on the verge of collapse." Then the officer walked up and shot him. After the taser was deployed, it was clear it had an effect. Evidently, Mr. R didn't see this part, and the lady screaming at the top of her lungs didn't see it either. Police down responding. Keep the air for us. The statements given by this neighborhood activist were misleading and basically were wrong. And these statements were widely reported by the Chicago media and the woman's incomplete video made the rounds on social media. And none of what these two people claimed was supported by the video evidence released by COPA. And this is proof that people are becoming more reactionary and overly emotional. And these behaviors now override the truth, the facts, and basic common sense. And people like this are just making cops jobs more difficult and dangerous. This shooting has been classified as justified due to the fact he charged at an armed female police officer with a large knife, leaving cops with no other choice but to shoot him. And there was no room for deescalation tactics at that point. In the line of duty, cops are sometimes rarely faced with the split-second life or death decisions when their sergeant fails to lead. car. He got a good gauge to it. Let's go down and take a look and see if we can find this. This guy's supposed to have it. How big a knife is that? You know, like a Bowie knife. Yeah, he got close to him right here and that's when he was trying to back out. He was trying to back out and he went up there with a knife, got him through the window. This police involved shooting took place on September 5th of 2020 in Vidim Park in the Garfield Ridge neighborhood. Let me see your hands. Let me see your hands. What you shooting me for, man? Let me see your hands. What are you doing? What the [ __ ] What are you doing? Get the [ __ ] away from me, bro. This incident I covered and was on the scene minutes after the 101 was called out. A suspect had stabbed one man in the hand and attempted to stab two others before police arrived on the scene. Once cops received the description of the man with the knife, they fanned out looking for him. And during the search, they came upon a man walking near Vidim Park. When cops approached him, he became belligerent and then slightly combative after cops started searching him for a weapon. Play no [ __ ] game with you. He quickly changed his attitude and apologized to cops and he was put in the squad and was later let go when they learned he was not associated with the crime. You heard me, bro. Skinny guy. You said he was involved. You just said he was involved. You said the skinny guy was involved. So, the sergeant and the other officers continued searching and ended up on the other side of Vidim Park. That's where a witness walked up to the sergeant squad and asked if they were looking for a man. She said yes. And the witness said he was walking by here and he was heading north. What's up? Look for a man. Yeah. He was walking by there. Okay. He's gonna show me where he is. Okay. They soon caught up with Warner at the park and patrolman Johnson stayed out by the squad and Sergeant Salgado and patrolman Gersk walked out into the middle of the park where they found 34year-old Shayon Warner. Cops repeatedly told him to put his hands up and he ignored their commands and reached down and grabbed at what looked to be a small bag and started walking and suddenly turned towards Sergeant Salgado and marched directly at her with a butcher knife in his hand. So she pulled out her taser and tased him once and he immediately went down still clutching the knife in his hand. He then rolled over and started removing the taser prongs with his other hand and then got up and cops yelled over and over to drop the goddamn knife. Put your hand Put your hands up. Drop the goddamn knife. Drop it. out. And once again, he charged the except this he made contact and started slashing at her vest a couple of times while she screamed out in sheer terror. While Shayon was yelling, "Let me go." And she continued screaming. So, officers Gerskus and Johnson opened fire. 21 bullets were fired at Warner. Gerskus fired 12 times and Johnson fired nine times. It was very clear the sergeant was totally terrified. And lucky for her, the male officers did not wait for her command to shoot him. A command that never came. Drop it. Get you. It was in fact Johnson that saved the sergeant when he ran out into the park and didn't hesitate to open fire because Gersk that was right next to her, his weapon would not fire. And this is according to his statement after the shooting, but he did eventually get the weapon to fire. After cops secured the scene, officer Gerskus walked up and gave Sergeant Salgado, who was still very shook up, a hug. And she, in a low voice, thank you. This you okay? I'm fine. I'm fine. He did it. It didn't go through. It didn't go through. He's stabbed me in my vest in my stomach. Warner was pronounced dead at the scene. And it looks as though it was the head shot that killed him. As they walk back to the cruiser, Sergeant Salgado kept rambling over and over. Damn it. Why did I put my gun back? Why? You know what? I don't know. I don't know what happened. My gun didn't fire. I squeezed the trigger. I squeezed the trigger. I put my gun back. Why didn't I put my gun back? Why did this come back? You got the other as Hey guys, where you got a car at? Why? Huh? Why come back? I don't know. Cuz you had that taser out. That's why the bad thing is having these tasers out. All three cops involved in this incident had over 10 years on the force. And I have to ask, how is it Selgado is a sergeant? She didn't show any leadership qualities of a sergeant at all in this extreme situation because patrolman Gerskus and Johnson acted like the sergeants on the scene because they took control and ended the situation. And it is now clear she did not work well under extreme pressure and also did not have her sidearm out in her hand when Warner charged her and she should have dropped that taser and opened fire or but didn't. In October of 2021, the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation honored patrolman Gerskus and Johnson for saving Sergeant Salgado from the knife attack. And she was honored, too. And once again, we see the taser policy nearly cost another cop her life. This police involved shooting has been deemed and luckily no cops were physically injured in this incident. Okay, I got an update. The shots fired. It says red line and state rock bottom. Man heard one gunshot pain near the rock bottom. In the line of duty, cops sometimes find out their partner is not physically capable of doing the job. 61 David going down with a rifle. This non-fatal police involved shooting happened on February 28th, 2020 at the Grand Avenue CTA Redline Station. This situation started out as a minor offense by 33-year-old Ariel Roman, a short order cook here in Chicago. Two cops saw Roman hopping from train car to train car, which is illegal. He was briefly talked to by both cops and then a short time later the female cop Melvina Bogard walked up to Roman and this time asked him to leave the train and he complied and for about a minute they talked on the CTA train platform. Then they tried to arrest him for the minor violation and when they went to cuff him he refused to let the pair cuff him and a scuffle broke out between the three of them. Immediately the female cop Melvina Bogard started to tase Roman over and over and later pepper-sprayed him and this went on for over 4 minutes and then Bogard shot Roman twice. There are many things wrong with this incident. From the very beginning, it looked as though both cops were dead set on arresting Roman for violating a CTA ordinance, which is punishable by a $300 fine. Both cops had a choice early on to give Roman a warning, but they didn't. Instead, they chose to escalate the situation and push their authority to an unreasonable level. What these cops should have done is once he refused to comply, they should have called for a sergeant and backup while following him until they arrived. And the sergeant would have determined if Roman should be warned or ticketed or arrested. If he was going to be arrested, they would have had plenty of manpower to arrest him without incident. But this did not happen. In the beginning, Mr. Roman resisted arrest and this set the stage for what followed. During the altercation, Roman was not aggressive towards either cop. He just held his arms tight to the side of his body and refused to let them cuff him. And they brutalized him for about 4 minutes with a taser and pepper spray. And still he refused to comply. I have many questions about officer Melvina Bogart. How is it she is qualified to be a cop when it is clear she was physically incapable of assisting her partner and getting Roman under control? And she escalated the situation every step of the way. Bogard could not even get a cuff on this man's hand. And the reason the incident lasted for 4 minutes is because she was physically incapable of fully assisting her partner in taking Roman into custody. Over the past decade, I've been hearing these words related to CPD's hiring practices, diversity, inclusion, and quotas. But never do I hear the word qualified. And it looks to me based on Melvana Bogard's performance, she fits all three categories. When I looked into the physical requirements to become a cop, I found that women are only required to do half the amount of sit-ups and bench presses and are given 4 minutes more than men in the 1.5 mile run. This in itself proves women are not physically equal to men. And these diversity-based inclusive quotas are putting some men partnered in similar circumstances at a disadvantage. And the chart proves a man and a woman team are less effective than a twoman team. And when confronting a violent suspect in a physical confrontation under these circumstances, it becomes a recipe for disaster. I believe the reason Bogard shot Roman twice was because she was angry and frustrated by her physical inability to assist her partner. And her partner was basically losing the one-on-one battle with Roman. So, he told her to shoot him. Shoot him. Shoot him. And I believe he meant shoot him with the pepper spray. About a minute after her partner said this, Bogart shot Roman while he was standing wiping the pepper spray from his eyes. During this time, he was no threat to either of them. And she was screaming, "Put your hands up. Give me your hands." While her partner was standing there calmly, lowering his hands to his side with the cuffs in his hand. At that exact moment, she shot him in the chest and her partner shoved him and said, "Get down." And she shot him again in the butt as he fled up the escalator stairs, blindly trying to get away from these two very violent cops. Roman then collapsed at the top of the escalator and merely bled out. Give him your hand. Give him your hand. Give him your hand. Get out. [Applause] Mayor Lori Lightfoot and interimm police superintendent Charlie Beck said that the video of the shooting was extremely disturbing. Beck relieved both cops of their police powers and recommended firing these two. As of 2022, Copa is still in the process of investigating these two officers. A year after Chicago cop Melvana Bogart shot Ariel Roman, she was charged with felony battery. And in 2022, she went to trial and Cook County Judge Joseph Claps found officer Malvana Bogard not guilty of aggravated battery and official misconduct in the shooting of Ariel Roman. Over the years, the CPD has lowered its hiring standards. And along with the negative press about cops since the death of Laquan McDonald and George Floyd, the CPD is being forced to scrape the bottom of the barrel for police recruits. And because of all this and many other issues, young men and women do not want to be cops today. And this is going to have catastrophic consequences for the city of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department for decades to come. This shooting has been deemed unjustified for a variety of reasons that I stated throughout this chapter. In the next episode of In the Line of Duty Chicago, highlighted is a shooting of a man that led to false social media claims that sparked mass riots across the Chicagoland area. Cops try their hand at deescalating a situation with an armed suspect from a laxed position. The next incident is by far the best coordinated takedown by patrolman of an armed murder suspect I have seen in a long time. Cops confront a fleeing suspect that turns the tables and ambushes them. And a gang member and fivetime loser hides a gun during his arrest and shortly after opens fire on cops at the police district. [Music]