Video released of bar fight involving cop who killed pair

Chicago's police oversight agency Wednesday released video footage of a December bar fight involving Robert Rialmo, the police officer who fatally shot Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones in 2015.

The move by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability comes under the transparency policies adopted by the city in the aftermath of the much-delayed release of video of the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, a COPA attorney said Wednesday during a hearing in the civil lawsuit by Jones' and LeGrier's families against Rialmo and the city.

The two videos show Rialmo, wearing a long-sleeve t-shirt and backwards baseball cap, throwing a flurry of punches at two men, knocking them both to the ground.

COPA last month ruled that Rialmo's shooting of Jones and LeGrier was unjustified, and has recommended CPD Supt. Eddie Johnson fire Rialmo.

The COPA investigation of the Dec. 17, 2017 fight at Moretti's restaurant - in which Rialmo faces misdemeanor charges for allegedly punching two bar patrons in an off-duty scuffle - has not been concluded.

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