A Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Thomas Siderio as he was running away during a chaotic incident last week will be fired. But the cop’s identity will be kept under wraps—at least for now.
Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw on Tuesday said the officer will be suspended with the intent of termination in connection with the March 1 incident, in which cops have said Siderio was armed. The officer will be terminated in 30 days for violating the department’s use of force directive, the commissioner explained, though Outlaw would not specify how, exactly, the officer in question did so.
Meanwhile, the family of the slain child directly challenged cops’ account of his death.
