City Hall Decides Not to Fight Police Shooting Video Release
via Crain’s Chicago Business
“A federal judge is expected to decide Thursday whether to allow the release of a video that shows a white Chicago police officer fatally shooting a black suspect in a car theft in 2013, a hearing that comes a day after the city made a surprise about-face and dropped its opposition to making the footage public.
The city could release the video of Cedrick Chatman’s death within hours if the judge lifts a protective order, as expected.
Questions about the Chatman video follow the Nov. 24 release of another video that made headlines. That video shows white officer Jason Van Dyke fatally shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times in 2014. The city fought its release for more than a year, making it public only after a state court ordered it to do so. The video and the delay in releasing it led to protests, calls for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign and a federal civil-rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department.”
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