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there. a part of this we don t quite see because the framing of that shot changes. but you do see the shooting police officer and he is with his gun drawn following chapman. then you see that officer at the intersection and then once the angle of that camera changing, you do see chapman on the ground and the other police officer with his foot on top of his body. now we got to tell the officer s side of the story. the officers have said they feared for their lives. they felt that chapman turned around and that they were in fear for their life and had a black object. the object was an iphone box and there was no weapon ever recovered on the scene other than that iphone box that chapman was holding and that was recovered later on the scene. i m going to talk about this with the civil rights attorney
emanuel s administration changed position and now sides with the idea of releasing this video. so we expect this hearing to be relatively short for the judge to issue the ruling that this video will now be made public. this is the case of 17-year-old cedric chatman. he was killed almost three years ago this week in january 2013 as he was fleeing from a car that had been stolen. now, police say he turned toward the officers and pointed an object at them. the family says chatman s family says that the video shows no turn, no gesture toward the officers, and the object that was in his hand, police acknowledge, was an iphone box, an iphone box that was taken from the car. this is the latest in a series of controversies over police shootings that all started hala
as a former prosecutor, i have seen a lot of different things. when i look at this video and hear the account of what is being said, it s difficult r for me to to believe that these officers can articulate they were in fear of their lives. as this 17-year-old unarmed young black man is running away from them, he s shot in the back by police who had an opportunity to take aim at him and fire. i have a really hard time believing that. i think when you re looking at it in terms of the law, they have trouble articulating what they saw as a perceived threat to their life that would cause them to unholster their firearm and then discharge their firearm to an unarmed young man. we talked about the fact that he thought he had a black object in his hand. they didn t know what it was. it was an iphone box. i don t necessarily believe these officers have much to stand on in terms of the shooting. i agree with the officer in chicago who suggested that they
former police officer himself, he describes what s on the video. they pulled up alongside of that car. chatman was running away from the stolen car he was driving when a police officer opened fire. chatman was running along here, and when he got to roughly this location, i would say, there was a gunshot. reporter: chatman was carrying a black iphone box in his hand. the shooting officer would later say he thought it was gun. he did not shout a warning. he did not use his radio to give direction of flight. he simply pointed his gun until he had a clear shot. reporter: lorenzo davis says when he deemed the shooting unjustified, his boss said ipra asked him to change it to justified. when he refused, he says he was fired. ipra assigned another investigator and called part of davis report glaringly biased, saying there was a significant