Chicago Police Board votes to fire cop who fatally shot apparently unarmed man in 2018

The Chicago Police Board on Thursday voted unanimously to fire an officer who shot and killed an apparently unarmed man during a 2018 foot chase on the South Side.

Officer Sheldon Thrasher was found guilty of using deadly force without justification in the June 6, 2018, incident, when Thrasher fatally shot Maurice Granton Jr. in the back as he climbed a fence.

The chase began after officers monitoring a police POD camera allegedly observed Granton, 24, and others engage in "narcotics transactions" under the Green Line tracks at 47th Street and Prairie Avenue.

Thrasher's use of force "was not necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm from an imminent threat posed to him or another person," according to the dismissal recommendation Supt. David Brown submitted to the Chicago Police Board last August.