In a second police body camera video, officers can be seen handcuffing O’Neal as he lies face down on the ground with blood saturating his shirt.
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Chicago police released video on Friday showing parts of last week’s shooting and its aftermath.
Whether the crash had an impact on the camera’s ability to record is under investigation, according to police. O’Neal, 18, was shot and killed last week.
The videos were recorded on dashboard cameras and body cameras from two of the three officers who shot O’Neal. An autopsy found O’Neal died from a gunshot wound to the back.
The comments Friday morning from Sharon Fairley, the head of the Independent Police Review Authority, come as the agency is expected to release the video on its website at 11 a.m. She says the shooting also proves that even police body cameras do not prevent them from shooting and killing a young black man.
O’Neal struck two Chicago police vehicles in the sports auto, and two officers fired at him while he was in the auto, authorities said.
Chicago Police Department released videos Friday showing the July 28 officer-involved shooting incident of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal.
Police Supt. Eddie Johnson stripped three officers of their police powers after officials said a preliminary determination concluded they had violated department policy in the July 28 shooting.
Another officer, who fired his weapon at the suspect in the stolen vehicle, responded “He nearly hit my partners, I (expletive) shot at him”.
Following widespread outrage over the McDonald video, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel vowed quicker dissemination of videos of police-involved shootings and set guidelines for the release of all police shooting videos within 60 days of an incident.
“My promise to the people of Chicago is that we will be guided by the facts and should wrongdoing be discovered; individuals will be held accountable for their actions”, the statement said.
“We don’t believe there was any intentional misconduct with body cameras”, he said.
The head of the agency that investigates Chicago police misconduct says video related to an officer’s fatal shooting of an 18-year-old suspect in a vehicle theft is “shocking and disturbing”.
The latest recording catches the auto being pursued by officers as it blows through a stop sign and smashes head-on into another police cruiser.
O’Neal’s family is suing the department over their son’s death, the Tribune reported. At one point, an officer can be seen telling others that he did not know who was firing.
One officer needs help scaling a wooden gate, while an officer wearing a body camera is unable to climb over and walks around to the rear of another home where other officers have the suspect on the ground.
Fairley said that “as shocking and disturbing” as the video is, it’s “not the only evidence to be gathered and analyzed when conducting a fair and thorough assessment of the conduct of police officers in performing their duties”. “Frederick Douglass said it back in 1845 when he said, ‘They whipped the slaves for the slightest offenses to discourage them from committing larger ones.’ That exactly what we are seeing police do with broken windows”.
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The release of the video footage comes as the department is in the midst of a Justice Department civil rights investigation, launched previous year following the court-ordered release of dashcam video that showed a white officer shoot a black teen 16 times on a city street.
