CHICAGO POLICE OFFICER CONVICTED IN 2013 SHOOTING OF TEENS
Source: Associated Press
Aug 28, 9:22 PM EDT
CHICAGO (AP) -- Jurors convicted a Chicago police officer Monday of civil rights violations for firing more than a dozen shots into a car of teenagers in 2013, wounding two.
Marco Proano, 42, of Chicago, was charged with two counts of depriving civil rights by using unreasonable force. Jurors returned with guilty verdicts on both counts after deliberating for only a few hours. Proano faces up to 10 years in prison on each count when sentenced Nov. 20.
Proano fired at the car as it backed up after being stopped for speeding on Dec. 22, 2013, wounding one teen in a hip and heel, and the other in the shoulder.
During closing arguments earlier Monday, a prosecutor likened the officer to a cowboy, describing how Proano got out of his patrol car and began shooting almost immediately. The prosecution relied on dashcam video of the incident, playing it several times for jurors during the weeklong trial in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
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