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Paul O’Neal, 18, was shot in the back by police on July 28 during a stolen vehicle investigation on Chicago’s South Shore, as he ran away from the responding officers. Videos from the scene show that O’Neal was placed in handcuffs after he was shot and ‘left to die’, his family said Friday after watching the footage, describing what happened as ‘an execution’ and ‘cold-blooded murder’. None of the officers are seen rendering any aid to O’Neal as hey lay bleeding. Additionally, crucial coverage of the actual shooting was not included in the multiple videos released, with officials saying the body camera that captured the killing was not turned on at the time.
‘We just watched a family watch the execution of their loving son. It is one of the most horrific things I have seen,’ Michael Oppenheimer, the family’s lawyer, said at a press conference after seeing the footage. Oppenheimer continued: ‘These police officers decided to play judge, jury and executioner.’ The release of the videos marks the first time the city have made public such material in a fatal police shooting under a new policy that calls for it to do so within 60 days. Three of the officers involved in the shooting were relieved of their police powers after O’Neal’s death was ruled a homicide. He officially died of a gunshot to the back.
Officers relieved of police powers must turn in their badges and cannot make arrests. The officers that appear in the video appear to be all white men, with one Hispanic. The videos do not show the moment O’Neal was shot. Oppenheimer described police not releasing footage of the actual shooting as ‘a cover up’. Police said on Monday that the body camera that should have captured the shooting was ‘not working’ at the time. Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said an investigation is underway to determine why the equipment did not capture the killing of O’Neal. The officers in question received their body cams ‘8-10 days’ prior, Guglielmi said.
‘We don’t believe there was any intentional misconduct with body cameras,’ he said. However, in one of the videos, an officer is heard saying to three other officers about their body cameras: ‘Make sure these are all off now.’ O’Neal, from Chicago, was shot last Thursday night during a stolen vehicle investigation in the city’s South Shore neighborhood. Authorities have said officers stopped a Jaguar convertible that had been reported stolen at the corner of 73rd Street and South Merrill Avenue. Police said officers opened fire after the driver, identified as O’Neal, put the car in drive and sideswiped a squad car and a parked vehicle.
At least two officers are seen shooting at the car as it flees down the suburban street. The Jaguar then crashes and the driver – believed to be O’Neal – is seen fleeing the vehicle, running into a nearby yard. The president of the Chicago police officer’s union lamented the release of video evidence, saying that it is unfair to the officers, could turn public opinion against them and even jeopardize their own safety. ‘These guys live in the neighborhoods, their kids go to school, and their photos will be all over the Internet,’ he said. ‘It doesn’t mean they did anything wrong but someone may see it and perceive the officers should not have taken the actions they did.’
The policy of releasing the footage is part of an effort to restore public confidence in the department after video released last year showing a black teenager Laquan McDonald. McDonald, who was shot 16 times by a white officer, sparked protests and led to the ouster of the former police superintendent. The shooting of Laquan McDonald, and the initial statements by a union spokesman about McDonald lunging at police that turned out to contradict what was on the video, raised serious questions about what the public was being told about police shootings. Investigators from Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates police misconduct cases and officer-involved shootings, arrived at the scene and obtained footage from cameras that the officers were wearing or were mounted on their squad cars.
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1:10 he threw his fellow officer right over the gate 😳 you can hear the thump
“Sup jimmyâ€
As a guy who trained with Swat team members. The first rule is you only use deadly force as a last resort. Second Chicago cops are among the worst. They didn't communicate with each other to see who was firing this death is on them. We are to easy to dismiss the death of a felon but I think that it's a little more then that with people commenting here. This was another human being. The cops rendered no first aid.
O’Neil was a big trump supporter. This was a service to society.
He didn't seem to be a very loving son
what happened to that cop who hopped the fence, it looked like he got messed up
Holy fucking crossfire though
"their loving son" 🤣😆😠thanks officers for saving our tax dollars for the next 60 years!
One less scumbag breathing our air! GOD BLESS AMERICA
Say goodnight to the dumb guy
That's not a suburban street its in the heart of the south shore neighborhood on the south side in the city
these lowlife scum are all just pos criminals… right up to the point they are shot by a white police officer… then they are somehow transformed into angels…. what a crock.
Excellent Job
Well it definitely took them long enough to get the boys some help after they fucking viciously shot him it kills me how they can shoot somebody dead or multiple times sit there and have a conversation and talk and exchange telephone numbers and everything else before they even called 911 that kills me I'm not saying they're always wrong for doing the shooting but they are always wrong when they don't get emergency responders there fast enough
Sad man fuck the police and who ever likes them pussies
Guud boi who tries to run over officer paradiz: +1
He was singing too loud in Church? No, wait, he attempted to kill police officers with a stolen vehicle.
One of the officers seems to be saying the guy shot at them first in the video? (at about 2:10)
Why is there no mention of that in the description?
CNN: Police car caused crash to black's person car and stopped him on the way to church
So he didn't have a gun? and he got shot in the back? hmm seems pretty scetchy, specially if he didn't have a gun…
It baffles me how people defend a pos like he's a hero… Dude was armed with a fucking 2 ton weapon…. What if he hit an officer, a kid when losing control or far worse… How can you defend someone like this? Because he's black? This type of shit should get you banished for life, not revered as a prodigy of your race… Good… Ffing… Riddance!
“None of the officers even attempted to render first aidâ€
And?
What do they shoot? Uninvolved citizens can be hit.
1:58 I hope the cops gonna pay for breaking that fence 🤔😬
Dont think they are required to render aid to some thug that takes a shot at them, let em bleed out one less thug
So loving with a criminals mindset….. to died… he cant respect lives of others and himself.
that poor boy was on his way to feed the homeless and was shot making deliveries, bad cops.