{"id":555607,"date":"2026-01-31T05:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/555607\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T05:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T05:38:14","slug":"chicago-police-shooting-cpd-officers-involved-in-2024-deadly-south-austin-shooting-of-tracey-watson-acted-reasonably-copa-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/555607\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago police shooting: CPD officers involved in 2024 deadly South Austin shooting of Tracey Watson acted reasonably: COPA report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Two Chicago police officers involved in a <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/chicago-police-shooting-officers-fatally-shoot-stabbing-suspect\/14881498\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deadly shooting in 2024<\/a> were found to have acted reasonably, according to the Civilian Office of Police Accountability.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Chicago police officials said Watson was stabbing another man before officers ordered him to drop his weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">COPA says officers shot Tracey Watson after he refused to drop a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">COPA also says the officers&#8217; reports matched up with video from the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">However, COPA did recommend reprimanding the officers for not turning on their body cameras earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><strong class=\"vtkaO \">READ MORE |<\/strong> <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/south-austin-chicago-police-fatal-shooting-family-speaks-out\/14889006\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Family claims man fatally shot by Chicago police in South Austin was defending himself from attack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Two Chicago police officers involved in a deadly shooting in 2024 were found to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":555608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[243190,43341,243189,112950,960,243188,5487,5457,243185,243187,5386,1818,5488,5458,5459,43187,243186],"class_list":{"0":"post-555607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-243190","9":"tag-austin-chicago","10":"tag-austin-neighborhood-chicago","11":"tag-austin-shooting","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-chicago-police-involved-shooting","14":"tag-chicago-police-shooting","15":"tag-chicago-shooting","16":"tag-cicero-and-gladys","17":"tag-cicero-chicago","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-illinois","20":"tag-police-shooting","21":"tag-shooting-chicago","22":"tag-shooting-in-chicago","23":"tag-shooting-today","24":"tag-tracey-watson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115988103518783859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}