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Chicago Police Officer Convicted Of Unreasonable Force In Shooting

Two teenagers were wounded when Marco Proano fired 16 shots into a stolen car as it backed away from him and other officers. Dashcam video shows him emptying his clip even after the car was stopped.

In an extremely rare verdict, a federal jury in Chicago Monday convicted a city police officer of violating civil rights by using excessive force in a Dec. 22, 2013, shooting that wounded two teenagers.

Marco Proano is the first

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