Chicago suspect’s last words: ‘I give up. I’m shot.’

Patton said the city recognizes its policy “needs to be updated”, and is waiting for guidance from a newly formed police accountability task force.

Brian Coffman, the lead attorney for Chatman’s mother, was flabbergasted at the city’s about-face.

In his deposition, Toth said the officers had stopped the vehicle Chatman was in after a radio report of a carjacking in progress, saying both officers drew their weapons immediately because they suspected the auto of involvement in a serious crime. Attorneys for Chatman’s family said that the video contradicts Fry’s account, and that the teenager never turned around. When the call came over the radio minutes later about the carjacking, they doubled back and caught up with Chatman at the intersection with Jeffery Avenue. “I see in his right hand a dark gray or black object”, Fry said; so he shot four times. An independent review board cleared the officer of any wrongdoing. At first, he ruled the shooting was unjustified, and claims he was sacked as a result.

Neither officer was ever charged or disciplined in connection with this shooting. “The facts are clear, and anything else is nothing more than baseless innuendo”, Collins said.

He is seen quickly running away from the officer but when the bullet hits, he falls to the floor.

It turned out the teen was carrying a black iPhone box.

“You have everything going on in Chicago right now rolled into one case”, Coffman said.

“We are hurt, disappointed and angry”, Bishop Larry Trotter, senior pastor of Sweet Holy Spirit Church, said in a statement about the planned boycott.

The city of Chicago earlier this week released surveillance videos that showed the officer-involved shooting of Chatman.

A USA 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.

Supervising investigator Lorenzo Davis, a 24-year veteran of the Chicago police force, disagreed with that decision and called Thursday’s video release a “vindication”. “Every time a video comes out, I do feel vindicated that there is more transparency now”, he says.

Two days before Christmas, the city filed its motion objecting to the videos’ release.

This story has been corrected to reflect that the video was released by attorneys for the city of Chicago, not Cedrick Chatman’s family. He later filed a federal lawsuit against IPRA alleging he was sacked for his findings on several cases-including Chatman’s-in which he found that officers had unjustifiably used lethal force. The video of that killing was not released until last November.

Chicago officials fought to keep the video under protective order, arguing that it would inflame the public and unfairly sway the jury in a trial over the family’s wrongful death lawsuit.

The cameras that caught the incident were at a distance and the footage is of low quality, court filings say. “From our point of view, it’s very clear Mr. Chatman is running as fast as he can”, Coffman said at a Thursday morning press conference.

Davis, a longtime Chicago police officer, told CNN that he hopes to soon meet with Fairley.

Alvarez has been under criticism for her office’s handling of alleged police misconduct cases.

“From the day that this shooting occurred up until now”, he said, ” the city has … kept quiet about this”. “He was running away, so why kill him?” he said in an interview last month, according to the Times. This includes the protest planned for Mayor Emanuel’s breakfast on Friday.