After Three Years, City Of Chicago Releases Video Of Chatman Shooting

Chatman’s family had fought for the video to be released as part of a wrongful death lawsuit they filed over the shooting against the city, Fry and Chicago police officer Lou Toth, who pursued Chatman along with Fry during the foot chase.

Attorneys for Chatman’s family said they were pleased with the judge’s ruling but questioned the timing of the video’s release.

In the early afternoon of January 7, 2013, two officers in plainclothes pulled up beside a Dodge Charger that had been reported stolen, and they ordered Chatman out of the vehicle at gunpoint.

The dark object later turned out to be a black iPhone box found near Chatman’s body.

Another video, which was released in November, shows the death of 16-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times by Chicago police. You’re going to see a young kid running away from police in broad daylight when he was shot and killed.

A federal judge has granted the release of 2013 surveillance video showing a white Chicago police officer fatally shoot a 17-year-old black carjacking suspect. Coffman said the video’s release would help promote change.

As two plainclothes officers approached, Chatman ran south on Jeffery with one of the officers trailing close behind, according to police. Attorney Brian Coffman, who represents Chatman’s family, said that after the teen was on the ground, an officer flipped him over, handcuffed him and pressed his boot into the teen’s back. “Office Fry, on the other hand, did not appear to exhaust any method of capturing Chatman other than shooting him and killing him”, says Lorenzo Davis, a former IPRA investigator.

The city’s prior opposition to releasing the videos of Chatman’s shooting – as late as December – has brought on new heat.

Protesters will be gathering in the financial district this morning after Thursday’s release of the Cedrick Chatman video. The officer says he fired after seeing Chatman turn toward officers with a dark object in his hand.

After Thursday’s hearing, community activists said they were pleased the video was coming out but were incredulous of the city’s shifting philosophy. The City of Chicago is also continuing “a major overhaul in policy regarding how police officers respond to incidents and the use of physical and lethal force”, a spokesman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel told MSNBC Thursday. When the camera pans to the right, Chatman is seen on the ground.

“I’m very disturbed at the way this happened”, he said.

The video was recorded by a surveillance camera and is low-quality. He was armed only with a black iPhone box. Chatman’s family denies that he did. But he said she wouldn’t watch it: “She wants nothing to do with this video”. The shooting occurred in October of past year. An officer stands with one foot on Chatman before emergency crews arrive.

“They’ve had over 2½ years to be transparent in this case”, he said.

A video of McDonald’s death shows McDonald moving away from police as he is fatally shot 16 times.

The national debate over police use of force has been dogged by worries among many, especially minority Americans, that prosecutors may be protecting police under the guise of jurisprudence.

Alvarez skipped the Cook County Democratic Party’s candidate slating on Thursday, saying she already knew the outcome. The Independent Police Review Authority ( I.P.R.A.) asked him to change his findings to justified.

In the meantime, Green said, the city has decided that in this case “the public’s right to disclosure” outweighed concerns over jeopardizing a fair trial.