The latest videos showed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald running in front of the police vehicle of officer Jason Van Dyke, who was charged with McDonald’s murder Tuesday, about half a minute before the fatal shooting.
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Those tapes include the one widely shown on Tuesday, which provides the most complete coverage of the shooting released to date.
“People have the right to be angry”. At least one person he arrested was later awarded $350,000 in damages in a lawsuit. People have a right to free speech.
Asked whether the police cameras were supposed to have sound, McCarthy responded, “There’s supposed to be (audio), and it’s supposed to happen at a couple different instances”.
There is a point on the video, as McDonald is walking away, where he turns slightly to the officers, less than a second before the first shot.
One protester, Lamon Reccord, 16, repeatedly approached officers getting as close as he could and daring them to “shoot me 16 times”. Laquan McDonald is on the ground, with several pools of blood flowing from his body into the street. Other officers were on the scene, but no other officers fired their weapons.
In the new video, the officer is seen kicking something out of McDonald’s hand after he was shot.
“Police officers are entrusted to uphold the law, and to provide safety to our residents”, the mayor said in an email to reporters, as reported by Chicago Tribune. Several hundred people blocked traffic on the West Side.
The group held banners showing photos of other black people fatally shot by police in Chicago and elsewhere.
“There’s a pain that the family is feeling”, she said.
“16 shots”, protestors shouted as they took to the streets Wednesday for a second night of protests.
The Chicago Police Department had argued that releasing the video would taint multiple investigations.
A judge dismissed the charge Wednesday afternoon after the state’s attorney’s office recommended it be dropped.
In a Wednesday morning interview on CBSN, Herbert indicated that in court the defense will call experts who will testify that Van Dyke was justified in continuing to shoot McDonald as he lay on the ground. She noted that federal investigators were also probing the shooting and hadn’t decided what, if any, action they would take.
Alvarez said concern about the impending release prompted her to move up the announcement of the murder charge.
“Thirteen months ago, a young man was killed”.
As they anticipated, the video footage prompted demonstrations in Chicago. Dyke was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder charges, on the same day the video was released.
Some community leaders said there was no doubt that Alvarez only brought charges because of the order to release the video from October 20, 2014.
“This is a panicky reaction to an institutional crisis within the criminal justice system”, said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who said he hoped to see “massive” but peaceful demonstrations. The city had already paid McDonald’s family $5 million at settlement.
(AP Photo/Paul Beaty). Chicago police officers struggle with protestors on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, in Chicago. Brookins said council members were told something was “fuzzy, something grey” about it. Police have not unveiled footage from the other three squad cars.
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Van Dyke, 37, has been a Chicago police officer since 2001.
