Police union head says don’t rush to judgment

Chicago police officers tried to stop O’Neal about 7.30pm July 28 in the South Shore neighbourhood as he drove a Jaguar convertible reported stolen in suburban Bolingbrook police said.

They handcuff O’Neal, who is seen face down on the ground with blood on the back of his t-shirt.

In one of the released videos, body camera footage shows a Chicago police officer jump out of his police cruiser, holding his gun.

An attorney representing the O’Neal family, Michael Oppenheimer, filed a lawsuit on Monday, stating that the video proves that the young man’s death was “cold-blooded murder”.

The video of the deadly encounter between yet another unarmed black man and the Chicago police is already sparking a huge backlash against the department.

A body camera video from a police-involved shooting in Chicago has added yet another layer to the ongoing national conversation about policing. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said on Sunday that the officers may have broken department rules, but didn’t specifically point out which rules are in question.

O’Neal’s sister, Briana Adams, later spoke briefly about the video, saying it was “disturbing, very disturbing”. Three officers have since been “relieved of police powers”.

The family was set to speak to the media Friday morning, but were too distraught after viewing the video, Green said.

The footage released by the Independent Police Review Authority does not show the moment that O’Neal was fatally shot but includes footage of the moments before and after. Police said they “attempted to curb” the auto near 74th Street and Merrill Avenue when the Jaguar sideswiped the police vehicle and another nearby parked auto.

The truth may never be known as the body camera on the officer who fired the fatal shots was not recording.

In the footage, officers can be seen firing on O’Neal as he whizzes by.

Police have warned of violence against law enforcement after they released video of the fatal shooting of “unarmed” black teenager Paul O’Neal following a police chase in Chicago last Thursday.

Activists Jedidiah Brown was one of the first to see the video.

Though he cautioned he had not come to any firm conclusions, Johnson said the shooting had left him with “more questions than answers”.

The Independent Police Review Authority released nine videos of the incident, which the head of the agency, Sharon Fairley, described as “shocking and disturbing”. He also pointed out that the body camera suddenly starts working after the shooting – an indication that the officer, believing the incident was over, thought he was turning the camera off when he was actually turning it on.

Perhaps less heartening is O’Neal’s family and the public still don’t have footage of the teen’s actual death-instead, the footage catches up to him after he was shot and is being cuffed by officers.

O’Neal died of a gunshot wound to the back, according to authorities.

Late last year, Chicago officials made public a video showing Officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, after the teenager ignored instructions to drop a knife he was allegedly using to slash vehicle tires.

Black teen girls in Chicago are organizing a march that will begin at 5 p.m. Sunday at Wrigley Square in Millennium Park.

This compilation of released footage shows four different angles of the incident that led to O’Neal’s death.