Officers had stopped the vehicle near 7400 S. Merrill Ave. after it had been spotted in several parts of Chicago earlier in the day, police said. The teen suspect sideswiped one of the police cars and another parked auto and injured some of the officers, whose wounds were not life-threatening. Not the police officer, executing this boy. He later died from his wounds.
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The three officers have since been stripped of their police powers after a preliminary determination established that they had violated department policy, the Tribune notes. Johnson said he believes the officers may have violated department policy, but did not specify.
Police said O’Neal was driving a stolen Jaguar, and led officers on a chase before crashing into a squad auto and a parked vehicle at 74th and Merrill.
Eddie Johnson spoke at a news conference a day after relieving a third officer in the shooting of his police powers; the same action was taken against two other officers Friday.
At the moment police authorities are conducting various forms of internal investigations but one of those has already shown that the body camera of the officer, who fired the lethal shot, was not recording. Chicago Police First Deputy Superintendent John Escalante says the driver of the Jaguar then put the vehicle in drive, sideswiping a squad auto and a parked vehicle.
Authorities have identified the man shot to death by Chicago police during a stolen vehicle investigation late Thursday.
In contrast, beginning Thursday night, officials made a point of explaining all they were doing to investigate the South Shore shooting. Chicago police have come under criticism for some of those incidents, including the October 2014 death of Laquan McDonald, 17, who was shot 16 times by an officer.
Three days after that incident, the department revised its deadly force policy, barring officers from shooting at moving vehicles if no other weapons were being used against police.
The lawsuit, filed Monday, alleges the police officers fired at Paul O’Neal “without lawful justification or excuse”.
Johnson said the officers involved all have been on the force for three years or less. Not only was First Deputy Superintendent John Escalante on the scene speaking to the media, but investigators from the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates police misconduct cases and officer-involved shootings, arrived and obtained footage from cameras that the officers were wearing or were mounted on their squad cars.
The police body camera pilot program began in January of past year when 30 cameras were introduced to the Shakespeare District on the Northwest Side.
Police declined further comment Saturday.
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The practice is seen as risky in addition to being banned by Chicago Police Department it is also banned by the NYPD, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), San Francisco Police Department, and the Denver Police Department.
