Ald. Nicholas Sposato sent a letter to the city’s Office of the Inspector General calling for COPA’s ongoing probe into the 26-year-old’s death to be turned over to state police.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and Chief Administrator of the Civilian Office of Police Accountability, Andrea Kersten arrive to discuss the fatal shooting of Dexter Reed by police and the video footage of the fatal shooting during a press conference at City Hall on April 9, 2024.
COPA spokesperson Jennifer Rottner did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday, and OIG spokeswoman Deanna Shoss declined comment. “We scoured all over the place and then we couldn’t find the stuff that we were making accusations about, so we didn’t want to just put a pile of in front of the Inspector General and have her investigate everything,” Sposato said. “So we tried to give her what we could. We’re going to continue to investigate and look for stuff that we have, but yeah, we had a bit of trouble.”
Sposato’s OIG complaint does quote Kersten writing to Chicago police Superintendent Larry Snelling days after the shooting, questioning the validity of the traffic stop and recommending that the four officers who fired at Reed be stripped of their police powers during the investigation’s pendency. And asked about what rules Kersten would be violating for sending a private letter to Snelling, the alderman said, “I don’t know, I’m not the inspector general. … Why didn’t I get more stuff? Well, how long do we wait? I mean, I wanted to do this a while ago.” He said his priority remains getting the OIG to reprimand Kersten and instruct her to stop speaking on the case.
Now, the high-profile shooting of Reed has attracted more criticism, with some of the most fiery words coming from Snelling. In a Friday news conference, the top cop ripped into unspecified figures who he said were sharing information with the media before the investigation’s conclusion, in an apparent pointed reprimand of Kersten.
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