She did not elaborate Friday.
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The dead teen’s family was so distraught after viewing videos at the Independent Police Review Authority headquarters Friday morning that they left without making any public comment, their lawyer told reporters.
Bodycam video released Friday shows a vehicle apparently driven by O’Neal driving at a high rate of speed past police officers on a residential street, prompting at least one officer to get out of his cruiser and fire multiple shots at O’Neal’s auto.
Oppenheimer praised in a way the early release of the nine videos, he called however for a special prosecutor to take part in O’Neal’s process.
Comments from that officer caught on video indicate he may have erroneously thought O’Neal had fired from a stolen auto barreling in his direction.
The head of the Independent Police Review Authority, the body charged with probing Chicago police misconduct, called the footage of the O’Neal shooting “shocking and disturbing”.
The videos are laden with profanity.
A march, festival, speeches and concerts were scheduled for Saturday, and organizers of the rally said festival officials asked that they not hold the demonstration in the park. Officers chase him down a driveway between brick houses and over wooden fences. It showed him being shot 16 times by a white officer.
Sharon Fairley, chief administrator of IPRA, said in a statement that the agency is proceeding “as deliberately and expediently as possible in pursuit of a swift but fair determination” into the black teen’s shooting last week.
Eddie Johnson Saturday said people have a “right to be upset” over the video released of an 18-year-old man who was recently shot to death by officers. O’Neal’s family is suing the department.
The actual shooting, which occurred on July 28, isn’t seen in the footage because the officer’s body camera didn’t record the moment he opened fire. Surveillance cameras tied O’Neal and three others to a spree of vehicle thefts, officials in the suburb said.
Johnson said the lack of a body-camera video of the O’Neal shooting is under investigation, though he noted that the officers in that police district had the cameras for only about a week before the shooting. In later footage, O’Neal is seen on the ground, his back bloody as police handcuff him.
“Since all the other cameras were working, I’m sure that camera was working and it (the shooting) was edited out or that officer turned it off on goal”, said Ja’Mal Green, an activist who spoke at the rally. O’Neal’s autopsy results showed he died of a gunshot wound to the back. He also pointed out that the body camera suddenly starts working after the shooting – an indication that the officer, believing the incident was over, thought he was turning the camera off when he was actually turning it on.
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Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said he was “concerned by some of the things that I saw” on body cam videos that show a confrontation between auto theft suspect Paul O’Neal, 18, and police on July 28, although the shots that killed O’Neal were not captured by video. “If this is brand new equipment, how come the other officers knew to turn their cameras on and the officer who shot the fatal shot failed to turn his on or it got mysteriously turned off?” The McDonald video sparked protests and led to the ouster of the former police superintendent.
