The teen was holding a black iPhone box.
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“Fry didn’t appear to exhaust his options”, Davis said, adding that he was able to review enhanced versions of the shooting footage while evaluating the case for IPRA.
And former police investigator Lorenzo Davis called for a change in the way investigations of officer-involved shootings and alleged excessive use of force are handled.
The case was then reassigned to another investigator, who ultimately exonerated Fry. The officers remain on their beats.
“As these videos will demonstrate, the facts in this incident are clear”. Toth, Fry’s partner, did not fire. After disobeying the officer’s order to exit the vehicle, the suspect reached to the floor and ran out of the vehicle with a dark object in his hand.
“He had a small, black object, which I believed to be a handgun”, Fry testified, according to court records. “The culture of the Chicago Police Department hasn’t changed, and we haven’t seen any steps to make that into a culture we could like to see”, said Community Activist William Calloway.
“It is a political move to save face”, Coffman said. “Nothing but an iPhone box was recovered at the scene”.
Friday’s protest is the latest in a series of demonstrations since the November release of video showing a white police officer shooting a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, 16 times in October 2014.
“You have everything going on in Chicago right now rolled into one case”, Coffman said.
The judge made the decision the day after city lawyers withdrew their opposition to the now two-year-old video’s release.
The mayor has said the city should reconsider its previous policy of not releasing videos during investigations.
The video showing the shooting was captured by cameras mounted on traffic signals on the south side of Chicago.
At Thursday’s hearing, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman sharply criticized the city attorneys for suddenly reversing course on the video’s release after spending weeks trying to prevent it.
“I’m very disturbed about the way this happened”.
With Gettleman signing off on the release, city lawyers are likely to release the surveillance footage this afternoon. The city fought its release for more than a year.
“The mayor’s only play at this point is to concede”, Brian Coffman, the lawyer representing Chatman’s family in a wrongful-death lawsuit told the Tribune.
“They have to be trained to tell the truth and describe in their own words exactly what occurred”, Davis went on, “rather than reading canned comments you always see”.
Chatman’s mother, Linda, has said her son did not deserve what happened.
Large-scale demonstrations were held across the country in 2014 after a series of high-profile incidents of white police officers killing unarmed African-American men, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio; Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York and Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina. He hopes she might consider reopening the case.
MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber, who helped prepare the analysis, said the video may help answer the key legal question about the shooting.
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In the meantime, Green said, the city has decided that in this case “the public’s right to disclosure” outweighed concerns over jeopardizing a fair trial. Last month, amid the ongoing uproar, the mayor also fired Chicago’s police superintendent, Garry McCarthy, saying, “He has become an issue, rather than dealing with the issue, and a distraction”. “This is what bothers me”.
