Officers are seen pursuing a man through a yard and over a fence while shots are heard ringing out. Hands behind your back!
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“We have to understand when you’re chasing someone who stole a auto”, said Wooten.”It’s not like chasing someone who has committed a homicide”. However, officers can be heard cursing at O’Neal as they put him in handcuffs. The back of his shirt is covered in blood. One officer can be seen searching through O’Neal’s backpack and finding a screwdriver. O’Neal was behind the wheel of a Jaguar at the time of the incident when multiple cop cars chased him down a tree-lined street and shot at him. The teen, police learned, was not armed.
The videos show officers firing on the Jaguar as it drove away from them, and their shots appear to place officers farther down the street in danger of being shot.
According to Fox News, a memo sent by Chicago police honchos warned officers that the release of the footage would encourage anti-cop violence.
The video has immediately raised controversy as it does not include the exact moment of the 18-year-old’s death on July 28. In one of the videos, an officer who fired his weapon complains he’ll now be on desk duty for a month, which is department policy. “Paul had goals. He was loved by my mother, his family and me”. “I want everybody to know that Paul had goals”.
O’Neal’s death has sparked the latest protests from activists who accuse police of using excessive force when dealing with black individuals or suspects. Another dashcam video captures the moment the stolen vehicle hits the squad auto.
In the graphic videos, police can be seen shooting at the stolen auto and giving chase to the suspect and firing several shots at him as he tries to run through a residential neighborhood on the city’s South Side.
Whether the crash had an impact on the camera’s ability to record is under investigation, he said.
The three officers who fired their guns during the incident have been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. “There’s going to be a learning curve”, Johnson said of the body cameras.
She said more evidence still needs to be gathered and analyzed. He tells other officers the person he shot is lying three houses over.
The fact that there was any video released at all, and just eight days after the shooting, is being seen as a step in the right direction for the Chicago Police Department though, especially with all the previous accusations against them for withholding information regarding police misconduct.
The Justice Department has said cameras can improve policing and a department’s relationship with the community.
The city went through days of turbulence previous year when video of the fatal shooing of another black teenager named Laquan McDonald that had been withheld from the public for months was finally released. “We just watched the family watch the execution of their loving son”.
Chicago authorities released video Friday of the moments before the shooting and the incident’s aftermath.
Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson promised the officers will be held accountable if found to have acted inappropriately. The release marks the first time the city will make public such material in a fatal police shooting under a new policy that calls for it to do so within 60 days. O’Neal can be seen running from the vehicle into a row of houses, with police in hot pursuit.
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“There’s no need to say anything”, a young woman said of the superintendent, who eventually gave up and returned to headquarters without uttering a word.
