The family of Anthony Alvarez, who was killed in a Chicago Police Department shooting, has filed a federal lawsuit.
CHICAGO -- The family of an armed man who was shot in the back by Chicago police during a foot chase filed a federal lawsuit alleging that the city is partly responsible for his killing because there was no policy dictating officers' actions during such pursuits.
Chicago police spokesman Tom Ahern declined to comment, saying the department does not discuss pending litigation. In fact, four years earlier the U.S. Department of Justice in its critique of Chicago's policing practices recommended Chicago's police force implement such a policy, but it was never instituted. And today, nearly a full year after Lightfoot said a policy would be created, no policy is in place, though the police department has said it is in the final stages of implementing one.
Video does show Officer Evan Solano running after Alvarez, shouting at him to drop the weapon, and then Alvarez dropping the weapon as he fell to the ground after Solano shot him. An autopsy revealed he was shot in the back and the thigh.In the lawsuit, Alvarez's family contends that there was no legitimate reason to chase Alvarez and that Alvarez didn't threaten Solano or any other officers.
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