SOUTH SIDE 08.05.16 1:55 PM ET
Video: Chicago Cops Shoot Teen and Call Him a ‘Bitch Ass Motherfucker’
Just-released footage shows Chicago cops gunning down young Paul O’Neal. The video could cause an already-tense Chicago to snap.
CHICAGO — “Bitch ass motherfucker,” the Chicago police officer says as unarmed 18-year-old Paul O’Neal lays dead or dying on the ground.
“Get your hands behind your back. Fucking shoot at us…”
Except O’Neal never shot at police on July 28. The only shots fired came from multiple officers who shot at the teen as he first fled in a stolen Jaguar, then ran on foot through backyards in the area of 75th and Merrill in the city’s South Shore neighborhood.
“They shot at us too, right?” an officer asks after as O’Neal lays bleeding from a gunshot wound to the back in an unsuspecting citizen’s driveway.
“I shot at the car after it almost hit you,” another officer replies. “Dude, I heard shots and fucking shot at him.”
These were the scenes caught on videos released today by the Independent Police Review Authority. While they don’t make clear who is responsible for the fatal shot, the videos do show that police thought O’Neal was shooting at them during a chaotic car chase that ended with the teen dead on Chicago cement. O’Neal, who had rammed a Chicago police squad car just before he was shot in the back and killed, is black; several of the officers who opened fire that day are white. One appears to be Hispanic.
For more than a week now rumors have been flying within the Chicago Police Department about what actually happened the day O’Neal was killed. A police source told The Daily Beast that one story had O’Neal ramming a squad car and backing up for a second try when a passenger officer opened fire on the teen, but that doesn’t appear to be the case according to the videos released today.
In one body cam video, an officer riding shotgun opens the door of his squad while the car is still moving as O’Neal approaches in the stolen Jag. The passenger officer and his partner unload several rounds, first at the front of O’Neal’s car and then from behind as it passes by. O’Neal then slams head-on into another cruiser before bailing from the car and running toward a nearby house.
The officer and his partner—who was driving the squad car that O’Neal passed on his way to hitting the second police vehicle—then pursue. Both had opened fire on the teen and were steps behind another officer who scaled a gate to chase O’Neal into a backyard.
O’Neal kept running but the cops chased him down.
A few doors down the officers from the first squad car catch up to other cops who were taking O’Neal into custody. In one video, the driver of the first squad car briefly picks up O’Neal’s head before slapping the cuffs on. Blood soaks the teen’s white shirt.
more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/05/video-cops-shoot-teen-cal-and-scream-bitch-ass-motherfucker.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
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