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Chicago officials are bracing for possible protests after the release of videos related to the fatal shooting of an unarmed teenager.
Paul O’Neal was killed last week when he fled a police traffic stop in a stolen Jaguar. After ramming a police cruiser and then trying to flee on foot, O’Neal was shot in the back by a police officer shortly after hopping a fence into the backyard of a house.
The nine different videos taken from dashcam and body camera footage show police firing on O’Neal as he rams a police cruiser.
The most eventful of the videos shows the body cam of an officer who exits his cruiser, narrowly avoids being run over by O’Neal, and then fires several shots from his handgun at the fleeing car. The officer later makes it into the backyard and helps handcuff a now-wounded O’Neal.
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In another video, the Jaguar skirts past a police cruiser, and an officer can be seen chasing after it while firing multiple shots one-handed from his pistol (at about 9:30 in the video).
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Another video, taken from a police dashcam, shows O’Neal’s ramming the stolen Jaguar into a police cruiser head-on (about 4 minutes into the video).
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Notably missing is actual footage of O’Neal being shot. The officer who shot O’Neal had a body camera, but it wasn’t operating at the moment of the shooting.
The videos are peppered with lines from police who seem to have realized the situation may have escalated more than necessary.
“They shot at us too, right?” one officer asks in a video. (RELATED: Shaun King Wants College For Cops)
Chicago Police Department regulations order police not to fire upon a suspect if their only weapon is a vehicle itself. Already, Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson has removed three officers from police duties for firing at O’Neal.
Michael Oppenheimer, an attorney representing O’Neal’s family, claims the videos are proof of egregious police misconduct of not outright murder.
“We just came from watching Chicago police officers execute Paul O’Neal,” Oppenheimer said in a public statement after viewing the footage. “These police officers decided to play judge, jury and executioner.” Oppenheimer also accused Chicago police of deliberately concealing footage of O’Neal being shot.
“They decided they would control this, so the cover-up has begun,” he said.
Despite Oppenheimer’s allegations, though, Friday’s video release was a much faster turnaround than in the past. When teenager Laquan McDonald was killed by police in 2014, the city fought for over a year to prevent footage of his death from being released. When it finally was, in November 2015, the city saw large-scale protests. Afterwards, Mayor Rahm Emanuel vowed that the city would be more proactive in releasing shooting videos.
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