Most officers get training to respond to injuries, but are often not required to use it. Fatinha Ramos for The Marshall Project
On September 7, 2013, an off-duty Chicago police officer named Kenneth Walker was working security at a public housing project when he got into a scuffle with a visitor and shot him. “He’s bleeding from the chest, it’s probably critical,” Walker told a 911 dispatcher.
This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations.
The operator told Walker to cover the wound and keep the man calm. But Walker made no move to help him, security video shows, even as blood began to pool on the sidewalk. Neither did any of the officers who soon arrived on the scene. Instead they stood over Marlon Horton as he gasped for air.