Federal appeals court upholds Chicago cop's conviction for 2013 shooting

A federal appeals court Monday upheld the conviction of a Chicago police officer serving a five-year prison sentence for shooting into a car full of teenagers in December 2013, wounding two.

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals concluded in a 23-page opinion that the "brazenness" of Marco Proano's actions that night was enough to support the conclusion that, "despite the car not threatening anyone's safety, Proano fired sixteen shots at it, including several after the car began idling."

Additionally, the court said, Proano disregarded his training by "using his gun, cocked, as an immediate show of force; discharging it into a group of people; shooting at something into which he did not have visibility; and never reassessing the situation until his magazine was empty."

Proano, 43, is serving his sentence at a low-security facility in Loretto, Pennsylvania, according to the Bureau of Prisons. He is not due for release until May 2022.

A jury found Proano guilty in August 2017 of using unreasonable force. Though his trial preceded Officer Jason Van Dyke's by a year, it still seemed to play out under the shadow of the Van Dyke prosecution.

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