Alvarez to announce results of 2014 shooting investigation

Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez will announce the results of an investigation into a fatal Chicago police shooting.

An attorney for Johnson’s family says the dash-cam video shows Officer George Hernandez firing five times within two seconds of getting out of his squad vehicle. Alvarez’s office has not confirmed the video’s release date.

Johnson ran behind an unmarked police auto as it arrived at the scene.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the video will be released Monday afternoon.

McDonald’s killing occurred eight days after Johnson’s.

Chicago police have not responded to CNN’s request for comment.

Alvarez and one of her deputies gave an extremely detailed narrative of what happened leading up to the shooting of Johnson, including audio tapes of 911 calls, police communications, maps and dashcam video. Police reported that night they found a pistol in Johnson’s right hand – a gun that Oppenheimer described as “old and rusty” and completely absent from the video footage. She said it shows Johnson running away just before he was shot.

At a news conference Monday, Assistant State’s Attorney Lynn McCarthy slowed down the video to show what she says is a gun in the 25-year-old black man’s hand. Johnson was shot by Chicago police in October of a year ago. A freelance journalist sued for it, arguing that the footage was public record.

The Justice Department, which has initiated several such investigations, including in Baltimore and elsewhere, is reviewing the letter.

In a separate lawsuit, Holmes’ attorneys have asked a Cook County judge to order the video released under the state’s Freedom of Information Act.

Many people who took to the streets questioned why it took 13 months to release the video.

Emanuel, who initially said a federal civil rights investigation would be “misguided” but later reversed course, said in a news release after Lynch’s announcement that his goal is to create a stronger and better police force “that keeps the community safe while respecting the civil rights of every Chicagoan”.

Officer Jason Van Dyke has been charged with first-degree murder and Mayor Rahm Emanuel forced Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy to resign. He also announced on Sunday that he had replaced the head of the city’s Independent Police Review Authority, which reviews police misconduct allegations.

The investigation, announced by U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, comes almost two weeks after the release of a video showing a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times.