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8 août 2016, 08:15

Ahead of the public release Friday of body and dashboard camera footage of the police shooting of 18-year-old African-American Paul O’Neal, the Chicago Police Department (CPD) issued a national bulletin warning of possible “civil unrest.” The teenager was shot in the back on July 28 and his death has been ruled a homicide.

The fatal shots do not appear on any of the nine videos released. Instead, cops are seen firing at least 15 shots at O’Neal’s car. The police then chase him through a residential neighborhood and several more shots are heard off-camera. Three unidentified cops have been relieved of their duties after police officials suggested they might have violated protocol when they murdered the youth.

The CPD claims there have been problems with the body cameras, which were supposed to assure “transparency” and improve relations between the public and the city’s notoriously violent police force.

O’Neal was shot by one or more officers and died of his injuries shortly after being arrested. Police say O’Neal fled in his car after they stopped him for suspected car theft. The cops fired into the front and back windshields of the car, but media outlets say none of those shots hit O’Neal.

The videos contain damning footage showing reckless violence by the police and confusion and fear among residents as police pursue the youth through a quiet south side neighborhood before they fire the fatal shots. The footage shows dismayed neighbors trickling out of their homes to see what has happened as the cops discuss the possibility of being suspended for their actions.

One officer suggests that the unarmed suspect had fired at them first. Another tells a group of cops in the street to turn off their body cameras. Additional footage shows the police handcuffing the youth as he bleeds to death.

The family saw the footage before it was released to the public on Friday, according to CNN. Ja’Mal Green, a family spokesman, told CNN that the relatives of O’Neal’s mother and sister walked out. “They can only take so much,” he said. “Once the gunshots started, they immediately left the room … crying, breaking down.”

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