The police officer who shot and killed two people in an early morning incident on the day after Christmas has given his first media interview since then.
Robert Rialmo was among those interviewed by Time Magazine for a new report published in cooperation with The Marshall Project.
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Rialmo was the officer who was responding to a call in the 4700 block of West Erie when he shot and killed Quintonio LeGrier, an engineering student at Northern Illinois University who was home for the holidays, and Bettie Jones, the downstairs neighbor who had opened the front door of the apartment building when police arrived.
LeGrier’s father, Antonio LeGrier, told the Chicago Sun-Times he called police to remove his son after Quintonio tried to break down his locked bedroom door.
According to the magazine:
“Rialmo, at his lawyer’s insistence, would say little about the death of Bettie Jones. ‘I feel terrible about it to this day, and will for the rest of my life,’ he says, ‘but people don’t know how it was to be in that situation, and ‘sorry’ will never cut it.’ Of his lawsuit, he says he filed it as a way of defending his name, and he doesn’t expect to see any money from it.
“But he had plenty to say about the theorists experimenting with the city’s law enforcement. “They could send Sigmund Freud on some of these calls, and he wouldn’t be able to do anything,” Rialmo says.
And at another point, he tells Time: “If you want to be a guardian in Chicago, be prepared to start going to a lot of cops’ funerals.”
The Time story is a look at how some of the approaches being used in Chicago by then-Supt. Garry McCarthy were being looked upon favorably by the U.S. Department of Justice, which was pushing the application of the so-called “Chicago Model” in other departments across the country.
Of course, that was before the Laquan McDonald controversy led to McCarthy’s ouster.
The story describes Rialmo as having “a dusting of facial hair and arms covered with sleeves of tattoos, comes from a family of first responders. His father, who is Mexican American, is a city fireman; his mother’s brother, a mix of Italian and Irish, is a veteran cop assigned to police headquarters.” It notes that Rialmo also spent six years with the Marines, including time in Iraq patrolling Tikrit as a machine gunner on a Humvee.
Robert Rialmo was among those interviewed by Time Magazine for a new report published in cooperation with The Marshall Project.
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Rialmo was the officer who was responding to a call in the 4700 block of West Erie when he shot and killed Quintonio LeGrier, an engineering student at Northern Illinois University who was home for the holidays, and Bettie Jones, the downstairs neighbor who had opened the front door of the apartment building when police arrived.
LeGrier’s father, Antonio LeGrier, told the Chicago Sun-Times he called police to remove his son after Quintonio tried to break down his locked bedroom door.
According to the magazine:
“Rialmo, at his lawyer’s insistence, would say little about the death of Bettie Jones. ‘I feel terrible about it to this day, and will for the rest of my life,’ he says, ‘but people don’t know how it was to be in that situation, and ‘sorry’ will never cut it.’ Of his lawsuit, he says he filed it as a way of defending his name, and he doesn’t expect to see any money from it.
“But he had plenty to say about the theorists experimenting with the city’s law enforcement. “They could send Sigmund Freud on some of these calls, and he wouldn’t be able to do anything,” Rialmo says.
And at another point, he tells Time: “If you want to be a guardian in Chicago, be prepared to start going to a lot of cops’ funerals.”
The Time story is a look at how some of the approaches being used in Chicago by then-Supt. Garry McCarthy were being looked upon favorably by the U.S. Department of Justice, which was pushing the application of the so-called “Chicago Model” in other departments across the country.
Of course, that was before the Laquan McDonald controversy led to McCarthy’s ouster.
The story describes Rialmo as having “a dusting of facial hair and arms covered with sleeves of tattoos, comes from a family of first responders. His father, who is Mexican American, is a city fireman; his mother’s brother, a mix of Italian and Irish, is a veteran cop assigned to police headquarters.” It notes that Rialmo also spent six years with the Marines, including time in Iraq patrolling Tikrit as a machine gunner on a Humvee.
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