The Chicago Tribune reports (http://trib.in/1QjabKy ) officials on Thursday evening released a number of recordings in response to public records requests by the newspaper.
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Viewers could see and supposedly hear Officer Jason Van Dyke firing nine rapid shots at Laquan McDonald, pausing for almost 10 seconds, then firing seven more as McDonald lay on the ground.
A manager of that Burger King has accused Chicago police who came into the restaurant shortly after the shooting of erasing surveillance video.
Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, background center, leaves the Cook County Jail after posting bond in Chicago on Monday, Nov. 30, 2015.
There are no other major gaps in the video from the restaurant that day, according to footage viewed by Reuters. If a microphone picked up the sound of shots, he said, you’d expect it to also capture the voices of officers shouting at McDonald or each other.
The footage, which doesn’t have audio, shows an officer sitting in front of a computer and another officer walking around.
During the chase, Hernandez, at the time a tactical officer in the Wentworth Police District, pulled up in an unmarked squad vehicle and jumped out with his gun drawn, Oppenheimer said. Oppenheimer said there’s no evidence Johnson ever fired a weapon.
The Cook County State’s Attorney’s office is investigating possible criminal charges, according to the AP.
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner says a Department of Justice investigation of the Chicago police department would be “a good thing”.
Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the Independent Police Review Authority conducts all investigations of officer-involved shootings and the agency was given the case report and videos.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who had stood by Superintendent Garry McCarthy, announced during a news conference he had asked McCarthy to resign.
“I have a lot of loyalty to what he’s done and him, but I have more loyalty to the city of Chicago and its future”, Emanuel said.
Cincinnati: Media organizations sued Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecutor Joseph Deters after he refused to release body-camera video from the fatal shooting of a black motorist in a traffic stop by a white University of Cincinnati officer in July.
Chicago police have said Johnson was armed and pointed a gun at police before an officer shot and killed him.
The family’s wrongful-death suit was filed just a few weeks after the shooting.
North Charleston, South Carolina: In April, the public viewing of a bystander’s cellphone video prompted police in North Charleston, South Carolina, to release a dashcam video of white officer Michael Slager shooting Walter Scott, an unarmed black man. Slager has been charged with murder and is awaiting a trial date. He says there are serious questions about whether the department has appropriate policies to prevent civil rights violations.
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The mayor, a Democrat and the former chief of staff to U.S. President Barack Obama, said he was responsible for what happened in the case, the same as the police superintendent. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has called for an overall federal probe of police department practices, which Democratic presidential candidates to local Illinois politicians have echoed.
