Second Day Protest Peaceful In Chicago After Release Of Laquan McDonald Killing

There are no scenes of the shooting in this video.

No audio or conversations among officers is heard in the videos, but sirens hiss in the background of some of them. A Cook County Circuit Court judge, however, set the deadline last week after independent journalist Brandon Smith sued the city, arguing that it had violated state’s open record law by failing to release the video. Authorities took more than a year to charge him, and to make the video public. President Barack Obama, who hails from Chicago and began his political career there, said on Facebook he was “deeply disturbed” by the video but added, he was “personally grateful to the people of my hometown for keeping protests peaceful”.

Scott Olson/Getty Images Demonstrators sit in the middle of Michigan Ave. along the Magnificent Mile shopping district during a Wednesday night protest. In the video, the victim was walking away from Van Dyke so there was no immediate threat to his safety and there did not appear to be a safety issue to any nearby bystanders but even if there were, 16 shots from one officer suggests that he did not care about the safety of other people nearby. As he jogs down an empty lane, he appears to pull up his trousers and then slows to a brisk walk, veering away from two officers who are emerging from a vehicle and drawing their guns. Within second is he struck by bullets, spins and crumples to the ground, his body jerking as he is hit by additional rounds of gunfire. There were 16 shots fired over 15 seconds, all by Van Dyke.

“There’s a pain that the family is feeling”, she said.

“And that was a lie”, Mike Robbins said.

This short dashcam video below is from after the shooting. But talking to CNN’s “New Day” on Wednesday, he insisted that it doesn’t tell the full story – including that his client “truly was in fear for his life, as well as the lives of his fellow officers”.

Others say the teen was never a danger to the officers.

Police have reported that McDonald had a 3-inch knife and according to toxicology tests, had PCP in his system. “I want them to look me in the eye and recognize just because they have a badge it doesn’t mean I’m someone they can treat like dirt”, one protester, Lamon Reccord, 16, told USA Today as he approached the police and dared them to “shoot me 16 times”.

“It looks pretty simple: The man was down on the ground (and) shots were fired into him. That’s simply science at play”, Herbert said.

Newly released police dashboard camera videos from the scene of the shooting of a black teenager by a white Chicago patrolman could raise fresh questions over documentation of the killing, as the city braced for an organized protest march on Friday.

Mayor Betsy Hodges praised police for swiftly arresting suspects in the “abhorrent shooting” and said the city is “sparing no efforts to bring any and all those responsible to justice”.

Energizing the ongoing protests are a growing number of black community leaders and groups, including the black caucus of the City Council that says it will seek a vote of no confidence against Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy.

He accused Mayor Rahm Emanuel of delaying release of the videos while he was running for re-election, which he won in April.