Chicago Police Release Footage of Laquan McDonald Being Shot 16 Times

While the CCTV footage was released in the Ferguson case, the dashboard camera footage of McDonald’s death – which contained damning evidence of police brutality – was kept from public view during the trial. On Tuesday, Van Dyke was arrested and charged with murder.

In the video, embedded below, teenager Laquan McDonald is seen walking away from police, getting hit with bullets, falling and hitting the ground hard, and shaking as a police officer empties the entire magazine of his gun into McDonald as smoke from the bullets flies. The last strike, which was shot around 13 seconds later, caused McDonald’s body to jerk and arms to move slightly while he stayed on the ground.

In the final moments, an officer can be seen kicking something out of the youth’s hands.

The six-minute, 53-second video has no audio – police said none was ever recorded. Protesters in Chicago began marching through the streets shortly after the video was made public.

Protesters demonstrated in Chicago on Tuesday after the release of a dashcam video showing the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who in October 2014 was shot 16 times by a Chicago policeman.

Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said his officers would be out in force to ensure people were allowed to protest peacefully but warned they would be “intolerant of criminal behaviour”.

Van Dyke is the first on-duty Chicago officer to be charged with first degree murder. “We cannot ease their pain, but we can demand accountability”, she said.

The city has already paid Laquan’s family a $5m civil settlement because of the shooting.

“It is graphic, it’s violent, it’s chilling”, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez advised reporters after charging Van Dyke with first diploma homicide. There was also another brief standoff with police at another location in the city.

Meanwhile in Minneapolis, tensions remained high following Monday night’s shooting during a demonstration over the killing of another black man, 24-year-old Jamar Clark. Seconds later, he fired 16 shots into McDonald. However, the video doesn’t show the original reason officers were called to the scene to detain McDonald initially.

Van Dyke, who was denied bond, was the only officer of the several who were on the scene to open fire. Emanuel said. “We ask for calm in Chicago”.

At one point, Mr. McDonald, whose autopsy showed the presence of the drug PCP in his system, pounded on the windshield of the squad vehicle and punctured its front tire with the knife, city officials say. The city had resisted releasing the video, citing federal and state probes into the incident. “Jason Van Dyke does not represent the police department”, Emanuel added.