Robert Rialmo

A court has rejected an effort by a former Chicago police officer to get his job back after he was fired for his role in the fatal shooting of a bystander

A group of South and West side pastors prayed outside Chicago City Hall on Tuesday before asking Mayor Lori Lightfoot to keep disgraced former cop Robert Rialmo from ever being hired again by the city. “It’s outrageous that Robert Rialmo thinks it’s his birthright to work for the city of Chicago,” said David Cherry, president of the Leaders Network....

A group of South and West side pastors prayed outside Chicago City Hall on Tuesday before asking Mayor Lori Lightfoot to keep disgraced former cop Robert Rialmo from ever being hired again by the city. NBC 5’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

A former Chicago police officer who was fired for his role in the December 2015 fatal shooting of a 55-year-old bystander is suing to get his job back.

Chicago police officer Robert Rialmo has been fired for the 2015 on-duty shooting of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones, according to the Chicago Police Board.

The Chicago Police Board began a hearing Monday to determine if Officer Robert Rialmo’s use of force in the 2015 shooting of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones was justified.

Chicago’s police superintendent is recommending the firing of an officer who three years ago fatally shot a teenager and his neighbor while responding to a disturbance call.

A Chicago City Council committee has given the go-ahead for a $16 million payment to the family of a woman who was fatally shot when a police officer fired at a teenage neighbor of hers.

Three days after he was found not guilty on charges stemming from a bar fight, a Chicago police officer – who was also the subject of a lawsuit over the 2015 fatal shooting of a teen and grandmother – was involved in another altercation at a bar early Friday, police confirmed.

A Chicago police officer who was previously the subject of a lawsuit in the fatal shooting of a teenager and a grandmother has been found not guilty for charges resulting from a bar fight.

A jury has found Chicago Police Officer Robert Rialmo liable on one count in the wrongful death suit filed in the shooting death of 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier.

Speaking in a voice barely above a whisper, Janet Cooksey, Quintonio LeGrier’s biological mother, told the jury Monday she loves her son and misses him.

Emmanuel Kapelsohn is an expert in police use of force. He testified Friday that officer Robert Rialmo, although he did not have non-lethal tools at his disposal, still did the right thing when he shot 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier in the vestibule of his fathers home on West Erie Street.

He was Quintonio LeGrier’s biological father, but Antonio LeGrier was just starting to get reacquainted with his son the night he was killed.

Chicago police Officer Robert Rialmo walked out of the Daley Center under heavy sheriff’s guard Tuesday, but his tumultuous days of testimony are not yet over.

Chicago police Officer Robert Rialmo walked out of the Daley Center under heavy sheriff’s guard Tuesday, but his tumultuous days of testimony are not yet over.

Tuesday could be a pivotal day in the trial of a wrongful death lawsuit against the City of Chicago, as the officer who fatally shot two people in December 2015 was expected to testify in court.

Despite having to leave the courtroom a number of times Monday, Janet Cooksey says she plans to sit through as much of this trial as she can.

Chicago police officer Robert Rialmo was placed on desk duty following the fatal shooting of Quintonio Legreir and Bettie Jones. In his sworn deposition, which was released Thursday, Supt. Eddie Johnson testified he was concerned for Rialmo’s emotional wellbeing.

Months after both Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Supt. Eddie Johnson were ordered to sit for sworn depositions in a lawsuit filed by the family of a teenager fatally shot by an officer in 2015, video showing what they asked and how they answered has been released.