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Chicago police shooting under review

“Listen, I’ve been involved in four police shootings and countless incidents where we had stolen autos”.

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But the policy also says that officers “will not unreasonably endanger themselves or another person to conform to the restrictions of this directive”, meaning they have the right to defend themselves if they or someone else are in imminent danger of being struck. He didn’t elaborate about those experiences, but said: “This is a hard job and most people don’t understand that because they’ve never had to do it”.

“We don’t believe there was any intentional misconduct with body cameras”, Mr Guglielmi said.

“It’s not easy to make a split second decision that might ultimately cost someone their lives”, he said.

Already on Friday night group of protestors marched up and down outside the police precinct close to where the shooting happened, chanting slogans like “hands up, don’t shoot” and “CPD, KKK, how many Pauls are you going to kill today?”

New dashcam and body camera video of a fatal police shooting in Chicago was released Friday.

The news conference came the same day that protesters planned a rally and march over the shooting. Kirkpatrick said the department would not wait for the completion of an investigation by the Independent Police Review Authority to implement new tactics and policies and that her bureau would be looking at best practices from around the country.

Chicago police officers had tried to stop O’Neal about 7:30 p.m. July 28 at 74th Street and Merrill Avenue, part of the city’s South Shore community, as he was driving a Jaguar that was reported stolen in Bolingbrook, police said.

The jaguar and another police auto colide and more guns fire as someone runs. The officer involved now is awaiting trial on murder charges.

O’Neal, who was unarmed, died of a gunshot wound to the back, authorities said.

“I was concerned by some of the things that I saw on the videos and that’s why we took such a swift action. that we did last week to relieve the three officers of their police powers”, he told reporters.

The video footage shows apparent procedural errors by Chicago police, including officers firing at a fleeing vehicle with others in harm’s way. There was also an admission by the officer who believed he fired the fatal shot that he had no idea whether the 18-year-old was armed.

CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago’s police superintendent on Saturday suggested that an officer’s body camera wasn’t turned on when he fatally shot a black teen last month because the officer had only received it about a week earlier and wasn’t yet proficient in using it.

The department’s use of deadly force policy was revised in February 2015 to prohibit officers from “firing at or into a moving vehicle when the vehicle is the only force used against the sworn member or another person”.

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Sharon Fairley, the chief administrator of the IPRA, called the footage “shocking and disturbing” in a statement, and added that the video “is 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”.

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