Videos Released of Police Shooting of Cedrick Chatman

A neighbor not involved in the disturbance, 55-year-old Bettie Jones, was also killed. The autopsy found the Northern Illinois University student had marijuana in his system.

However, that finding only came after the firing of a senior IPRA investigator, who originally said the shooting had not been justified.

Alvarez has been under criticism for her office’s handling of alleged police misconduct cases. Each time, the officer was cleared of wrongdoing, including a 2007 case when Fry and his partner shot a 16-year-old Black boy in a school.

The attorneys for Chatman’s mother, Linda Chatman, had been pushing for months for the videos to be released as part of a wrongful death suit, arguing the images show the teen was running from police and never turned toward the officers. Chatman’s attorneys say they’re still waiting for transparency.

The videos also show two bystanders standing on the sidewalk near the intersection, just steps away when gunshots ring out and Chatman crumples to the ground.

Coffman, the attorney for Chatman’s family, gave a much different description on Thursday of Toth handcuffing the teen. An officer stands with one foot on Chatman before emergency crews arrive.

A US magistrate previously sided with the city, agreeing the video should be kept from the public, but lawyers for Chatman’s family asked a federal judge in December to overturn the ruling.

Chatman was shot during a chase after a carjacking which he was suspected of committing.

Officer Kevin Fry told police, at the time, that he feared for the life of his partner, Officer Lou Toth, and fired four shots. Meanwhile, the Independent Police Review Authority in September ruled that Officer Fry was justified in killing Chatman.

Questions about the Chatman video follow the November 24 release of another video that made headlines. And the evidence of a City Hall coverup in the death of Laquan McDonald, 17, at the hands of police has led to mounting calls for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign.

The video released Thursday was shot by several surveillance cameras and from various angles.

Gettleman agreed to allow its release but said he “went to a lot of trouble to decide this issue” only for the city to suddenly declare it was going to be transparent. 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. Fry, who has been a Chicago officer since 2003, was not charged or disciplined in the shooting. According to Steve Patton, the city’s corporation counsel, the decision to vacate the order was made in “an effort to be transparent”.

On Thursday, a federal judge ordered the release of videos of another fatal shooting by Chicago police but not before blasting the city for abruptly reversing its position, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Cedrick Chatman, 17, was shot while running from officers after a chase on January 7, 2013.

Investigators later determined the object was an iPhone box.

An attorney for the police officers said the videos will support their story. It shows the shooting from a distance. Giacalone said the video shows the shooting was “a bad incident”, which is why city officials kept it secret “for so long”.

It’s not clear how soon the city will release the footage of Cedrick Chatman’s death if the judge lifts a protective order, as expected.