Chicago Officer Who Shot Teen 16 Times Pleads Not Guilty To Murder

On Sunday morning, Antonio LeGrier called police to respond to his son, who suffered from mental illness and was banging on a door with a baseball bat.

29, 2015, in Chicago.

Both Adam and LeGrier family attorney, Basileios Foutris, say police have already seized video from some of the nearby homes.

The footage triggered protests and calls for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other city officials to stand down.

Family members and others at the news conference wore black T-shirts critical of Mayor Emanuel.

Protests have occurred across Chicago since the city – under a court order – released squad-car video last month showing a white officer shooting a black teenager 16 times.

Critics have accused Emanuel of keeping the video under wraps until after he won a second term in April. Emanuel has described Van Dyke as “a person taking the law into their own hands” and “not using the judgment that is expected”, and called the shooting “profoundly ugly”.

Chicago saw tensions over its police department’s use of force and alleged discrimination against communities of colour renewed Monday, two days after police shot dead Quintonio LeGrier, 19, and Bettie Jones, 55. The man cursed the mayor before punching Henry with a closed fist, tackling him and then kicking him repeatedly, WBBM-TV reported.

According to reports, Emanuel’s staffer was walking toward the vigil with Alderman Jason Ervin when a man stalked up to them and began to confront the pair saying, “What are you doing here, you should be downtown doing something about this”.

A white police officer has pleaded not guilty to killing an African American teen in 2014.

Police shot to death LeGrier, claiming he had become combative, but it’s not clear what they meant.

“I need the nation to know, Antonio LeGrier, father of Quintonio LeGrier, raised a good son that went to school and provided good grades and had a handsome future in front of him that was snuffed out by inexperienced officers”, he said.

“He wants his story to get out so that people don’t see him as this cold-blooded killer, but that’s what the trial is for”, Dan Herbert told reporters. They also say they are going to step up the pressure on Democrats so that they call on Rahm Emanuel to resign. Herbert said Tuesday that he was continuing to consider such a request, but for now was satisfied with the selection of Gaughan, of the Circuit Court of Cook County, to hear the case. The teenager was holding a knife and moving away from officers when Van Dyke fired.

The father of a 19-year-old who was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer this past weekend broke down crying multiple times during an interview on CNN this afternoon.

Van Dyke, 37, was the only officer to fire his weapon.