He fired four shots, hitting Chatman twice.
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Surveillance video of a Chicago police officer fatally shooting suspect Cedrick Chatman prompted one misconduct investigator to determine it wasn’t justified. Chatman’s attorneys say they’re still waiting for transparency.
Fry later said he feared for his and his partner’s life. Chatman scoots through parked cars and then toward a nearby intersection. Toth later stands with his foot on the teen.
Chatman ran south with the two officers following.
He also says he is suing the city for wrongful dismissal and that he was ordered to soften his findings in six cases, including Chatman’s 2013 shooting.
In 2014, the city was successfully granted a protective order to avoid the video from being released to the public.
The officer shot Cedrick Chatman during a foot chase. The officer says he fired after seeing Chatman turn toward officers with a dark object in his hand.
The original independent police investigator wanted to rule that the shooting was unjustified, saying the teen fled from Fry and his partner, Officer Lou Toth, without posing a threat or turning toward them.
A federal judge has sharply criticized the city of Chicago for fighting the release of a police shooting video for weeks only to suddenly reverse course and call for its release.
The video released Thursday was shot by several surveillance cameras and from various angles.
“I went to a lot of trouble to decide this issue”, said Judge Gettleman, later adding, “This should not have happened the way it did”.
The release is part of a lawsuit Chatman’s family filed against the city.
CNN reached out to the Chicago Police Department, I.P.R.A., and the Cook County States Attorney’s office and have received no comment. After less than a half-hour of deliberating in private, the committeemen announced they were backing Kim Foxx, a former chief aide to the county board president.
While the officers involved were cleared of wrongdoing, two of Chatman’s friends – Martel Odom, 23, and Akeem Clarke, 22 – were later charged with murder for allegedly “setting into motion” a chain of events that led to Chatman’s death, according to DNAinfo Chicago. According to Steve Patton, the city’s corporation counsel, the decision to vacate the order was made in “an effort to be transparent”.
A federal judge ordered the release of a video in yet another police shooting in Chicago.
Since the family and the city now both agree the video should be made public, it is likely Gettleman will allow it to be released, and the footage could be made public as soon as Thursday.
Zbigniew Bzdak/ZUMAPRESS.com Linda Chatman, 40, lost her son when police officers fatally shot him in the back in 2013.
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Chapman, age 17, was carrying a black i-Phone box when he was shot and the officer later claimed he thought it was a gun. Timestamps show that call was made just a few minutes before the shooting. One video from a camera that pans back and forth is grainy and it doesn’t show Chatman fall; another is clearer and shows Chatman fall, but it is taken from farther away and doesn’t show definitively if Chatman ever turned. This time, Cedrick Chatman, 17. City attorneys nonetheless argued that the release of the recordings could inflame the public and interfere with the proceedings in the family’s lawsuit.
