Eric Dixon, president of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 308, argued that crime on the CTA would remain “out of control” until conductors return at least on subway trains.
The Chicago Police Department is moving to fire two officers involved in the shooting of an unarmed man last year on a busy CTA Red Line platform.
Administrative charges were filed Tuesday against Officers Melvina Bogard and Bernard Butler that allege the shooting was unnecessary and that the officers engaged in an “unjustified action.”
Federal authorities also have opened a criminal investigation into the high-profile police shooting.
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability completed its investigation in October and sent its recommendations to police Supt. David Brown.
The officers confronted Ariel Roman after they saw him walking between train cars in violation of CTA rules on a northbound Red Line train.