Cop Who Killed Rekia Boyd Out of ‘Fear’ Found Not Guilty on All Counts
Apr. 21 2015
Dante Servin, the Chicago police detective who was off-duty on the
March 2012 night that he shot and killed 22-year-old Rekia Boyd with an unregistered firearm,
was cleared on Monday of all charges. Servin fired over his shoulder,
from his car, with a 9mm semi-automatic, into an alley where Boyd and
her friends were walking, unarmed, with their backs turned to him. He
hit Boyd in the back of her head and killed her.Servin maintains—and the judge ruled—that he was justified: that Boyd’s boyfriend Antonio Cross raised a cell phone that
seemed, at the time, to be a gun. Servin has insisted that he did this
out of fear, and “felt threatened” after telling Boyd and her three
friends to quiet down.In the
video taken after he left the courtroom, Servin, without making eye
contact with the camera, goes on some absolutely chilling shit: “Any
police officer especially would have reacted in the exact same way I
reacted,” he says. “I’m glad to be alive. I saved my life that night.”Rekia
Boyd’s mother, giving her statement, disagrees: “They just found this
man not guilty on all counts, and he blew my daughter’s brains out in
the alley,” she says.We can’t take this anymore, this is too fucking much.
‘I saved my life that night’ 😐
the whites are so scared. that’s that cave shit.
I’m so sick
