CHICAGO — Officer Raoul Mosqueda should be fired for lying about the January 2011 fatal police-involved shooting of Darius Pinex, the Independent Police Review Authority says.
More than six years after the incident, IPRA recommended firing Mosqueda for lying about the case in a 34-page document.
Pinex was shot to death after Officer Gildardo Sierra and Mosqueda pulled the father of three and a friend over in January 2011.
The two officers testified during the wrongful death trial's lawsuit that they pulled over Pinex because his car matched a description of one seen at a recent murder scene.
However, a federal judge ruled in January that an attorney for the city intentionally concealed evidence during that trial. The judge overturned a jury verdict that cleared the officers of wrongdoing, and harshly criticized the city for concealing evidence from the Pinex family.
In December, city attorneys recommended that Chicago should pay $2.34 million to Pinex's family.
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