A shooting in Chicago

“This video will tear at the hearts of all Chicagoans”.

Chicago police initially said that McDonald was high on the hallucinogen PCP, acting erratically and then lunged at officers with a knife when he was shot 16 times in October 2014. The database, a collaboration between the Invisible Institute and the University of Chicago Law School’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, is not comprehensive and represents only three data sets spanning 2002 to 2008 and 2011 to 2015. He said Van Dyke arrived on a street on the southwest side of Chicago 18 minutes after a suspect carrying a knife was reported to have threatened businesses and vandalized police cruisers.

People took to the streets of Chicago city in the United States Wednesday night and clashed with police as they protested for the second night the killing of 17-year old black teenager Laquan McDonald last year on the hands of a white Chicago policeman.

All the videos released to date include some sound, but most of it is just the faint noise of the vehicles’ sirens.

“There was absolutely no reason not to here”.

The relevant portion of the video runs for less than 40 seconds.

In other instances, however, videos – ones that might shock the public conscience or be inflammatory – have been released.

“He said if they had done something about this cop in our case, this young boy would still be alive”.

“But that could come back to haunt the prosecutors later on if it impacts on the defendant’s ability to get a fair trial”.

A Burger King near where McDonald was shot had a security camera trained on the area where the incident occurred.

“It appears to everybody who has seen that tape that it did not and should not have taken a full year to determine what happened when all the facts were known and there was a clear video to show it”, said Alderman Harold Brookin, a member of Chicago’s Black Caucus.

But the additional videos do not show the shooting.

In a video posted on twitter, protesters were also seen tearing the lights off of the city Christmas tree. One, however, shows McDonald bleeding on the ground after being shot.

The protest started at the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Halsted Street less than two hours after Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Gary McCarthy announced the release of a police dash-cam video of officer Jason Van Dyke unloading 16 shots into 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

Van Dyke, 37, denied every allegation.

A small band of demonstrators hit the chilly Chicago streets for a second night in a row yesterday, reportedly confronting police officers.

Graphic footage released shortly after officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder on Tuesday has reignited impassioned debate about the use of force by law enforcement in the USA, with Chicago left dangerously on edge.

A number of police killings of black men over the past year have given rise to the nationwide “Black Lives Matter” movement, pushing the issue to prominence in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign.

And it doesn’t happen that often elsewhere in the US either.

The Urban League of Chicago joined in the call for a federal investigation, alleging a pattern of “discriminatory harassment” against black people.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a prominent civil rights activist, said other officers involved in McDonald’s death should be fired or at least suspended.

Of those 47 cases, about 23 per cent resulted in a conviction of some kind, says Stinson.

Chicago police officers maintained a constant presence with protesters throughout the march.

So far this year, 15 officers have been charged in the USA, with video playing a key role in nine of those cases, he says.

Only one of the five police dashboard camera videos that the Emanuel administration released shows the shooting of McDonald, the same video the mayor was forced to release under an order by a Cook County judge.