Judge to rule on release of another Chicago police shooting video

The city of Chicago on Thursday released a long-awaited video showing police shooting and killing an unarmed carjacking suspect in 2013. “I think it’s irresponsible”.

Another video, which was released in November, shows the death of 16-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times by Chicago police. The object was a black iPhone box. The city also released audio recordings.

Cameras mounted on a traffic signal, at South Shore High School and at a nearby apartment building recorded different angles of the incident.

The video, which was released Thursday, is grainy, and it may yet be inconclusive as to whether the officers did anything wrong. Chicago website before the city’s official release, shows two officers chasing Chatman, Chatman running around a corner, one officer drawing his gun, and then Chatman on the ground, all within 10 seconds. Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration argued that the order was necessary to ensure a fair trial and to not jeopardize the proceedings in the civil lawsuit.

The city fought teh release of footage of that incident for more than a year, also only making it public only after a court ordered it to do so.

Gettleman said he was not concerned that releasing the video at this point might taint the jury pool given the “overblown” coverage of the case but did express concern about the reasons stated for city attorney’s last-minute reversal.

After Green spoke, Gettleman sharply criticized the city attorneys for suddenly changing their position on the video’s release on policy, not legal grounds after spending weeks trying to prevent it.

“I was in fear of Officer Toth’s life”, Fry said in his deposition.

Chatman’s family has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit and have fought for months to have the video released, The Chicago Sun Times reported. “Today is another dark day in our city”, said Bishop James Dukes.

“They are still not being transparent and we are still not hearing details of how they are going to change”, said Coffman.

In a statement, Corporation Counsel Steve Patton said the city is “working to find the right balance between the public’s interest in disclosure and the importance of protecting the integrity of investigations and the judicial process”. But a federal magistrate called the footage “inflammatory” last month and said it should remain under protective order.

Chicago – The embattled U.S. city of Chicago released a video on Thursday in yet another controversial case of a black teenager shot dead by a white police officer.

Emanuel has faced calls for his own resignation amid the continuing police scandal.

Cedrick Chatman was 17 years old when he was gunned down in the street on the afternoon of January 7, 2013, as police investigated a suspected carjacking near 75th Street and Jeffrey on the city’s South Side. According to police, Cedrick eventually stopped running and turned and pointed an object toward the two officers chasing him.

The primary dispute in the case is over whether Chatman had something in his hand and turned toward police before he was shot. Fearing for his life and that of his partner, the officer, identified in court documents as Kevin Fry, told the authority, he fired his weapon four times. Fry told Chicago’s Independent Police Review authority that he believed that Chatman was carrying a handgun, but evidence from the scene later showed that Chatman had been holding a black iPhone box. A investigator ruled that the shooting was justified.

While a wounded, unarmed Chatman lies in the street, he is handcuffed and one of the officers places his boot on top of him. In total, 16 shots were fired.