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Article: To serve and protect? Some say fatal shootings could have been prevented if the Chicago Police Department kept better watch over its officers.(Police Shootings)(Cover story)
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- The Chicago Reporter
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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The accents of both sides converged only at the end: the death of Dantwan Betts, who was shot and killed by Chicago Police Officer Richard Doroniuk.
Before that point, much differed.
The story told m the complaint filed in the Betts family's lawsuit was a brief one. Early on the morning of April 30, 2006, Doroniuk and two other officers approached Betts' car near the intersection of 110th Street and Wallace Avenue. They then tried, without either a reason or a search warrant, to arrest Betts, the complaint said.
Doroniuk and his partner, Mahmoud Shamah, drew their weapons, and Doroniuk fired his gun multiple ...