The graphic nature of the video, in which Van Dyke is shown shooting McDonald not long after arriving on the scene, didn’t help, nor did the fact that this footage didn’t square with other officers’ accounts on the scene.
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The two African-American fatalities were identified as Bettie Jones, a mother of five, and 19-year-old engineering student Quintonio LeGrier.
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Jacqueline Walker, a friend of Bettie Jones who was also present at the news conference, asked why police “shoot first and ask questions later”.
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Emanuel, under fire for a series of fatal police shootings, directed the department and the leaders of the independent Police Review Authority and the police department to meet immediately to “determine the deficiencies in the current training, and determine what steps can be taken immediately to address them”.
“The 55-year-old female victim was accidentally struck and tragically killed”, reads the statement, which extends “deepest condolences to the victim’s family and friends”.
Chicago police officers talk with relatives of one of the two people killed by a police officer, as they investigate a shooting in the entry of their apartment in Chicago on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2015.
LeGrier’s cousin, Albert Person, said LeGrier’s father had invited his son to a holiday gathering at another home on Christmas.
Bettie Jones was known as a community activist who spent her free time speaking out on issues such as police brutality that affected black Chicagoans on the far West Side, where she lived all her life, and who often attended vigils for people killed in street violence.
LeGrier’s father, Antonio LeGrier, had reported that his son seemed “agitated” before the events that led to his son being fatally shot. He says he heard loud banging on his locked bedroom door around 4:15 a.m. and that his son tried to bust the door open.
The Skokie Police Department has been notified, and it will handle any charges for incident that occurred in Skokie. Police say Jones was hit accidentally by the gunfire.
Antonio LeGrier told the AP that moments earlier he heard Jones yell, “Whoa, Whoa Whoa!”
The young man reportedly spent most of his childhood in foster care, and struggled with mental health issues. Her voice cracked as she said now she will never get memories like that because her son is dead. One of Jones’s five children, Latisha, was awakened by the noise and ran to her mother’s side as she lay unresponsive on the ground.
“She had an excellent Christmas”.
Melvin Jones, facing camera, hugs Robin Andrews, both brothers of Bettie Jones, 55, in Jones’ li … Antonio LeGrier told the newspaper that he called the police and then alerted Jones, his downstairs neighbor, that his son was a “little irate” and not to open her door unless police arrived.
He said she lived there with her boyfriend and was the mother of four daughters and a son ranging in age from 19 to 38. Right now there’s a whole lot of anger, a whole lot of tears.
Janet Cooksey, mother of Quintonio LeGrier, is consoled by relatives and friends, after speaking to the media in Chicago, Illinois, December 27.
Quintonio graduated a year ago from Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy in Chicago.
Police were summoned and the father asked Jones, a neighbor, to look out for the officers. Relatives of Jones told the Tribune that they think she was behind the 19-year-old and by the entrance to her apartment when the shooting began. LeGrier was remembered as a cheerful honor student who shared inspirational quotes with his mother daily. Both Jones and LeGrier were black.
The Police Department claims officers “were confronted by a combative subject, resulting in the discharging of the officer’s weapon”.
Family members of two unarmed black residents fatally shot by Chicago police called for answers Sunday at a press conference in which they accused officers of using excessive force.
Police said an officer shot LeGrier, who was carrying a metal bat and acting in a “combative” manner, early Saturday morning while responding to a call about a domestic disturbance.
IPRA spokesman Larry Merritt declined comment on the shooting.
The mayor has already welcomed a U.S. Justice Department investigation into whether Chicago police have made a habit of violating the law.
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The Chicago Police Department is also the subject of a federal civil rights investigation.
