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chicago, thanks very much. as promised, we want to go to the other angle on this, the legal angle. want to talk to chief legal correspondent ari melber about this. we hear about the two officers, the names being kevin frye and lou toth, these are the responding officers in this, but the kid just 17 years old. so explain what the primary dispute is for the family s case. 17 years old, and according to everyone, unarmed. this is a question about whether this video which we now expect to get today, we will be showing it to viewers after we review it and get it, shows him basically holding a case his lawyers say was an iphone case which officers wrongly thought they say was a weapon. that leads to his family filing this wrongful termination suit. they allege deadly force used against chapman, against circumstances when he quote, posed no threat of death or serious bodily harm. s want to tell you that they say there s a coverup which goes to what you and mr. yang were talking about. how d
and a $200 savings card. welcome back. in just over an hour, 2:30 eastern time, the city of chicago will release video of the shooting death of cedric chapman, who was shot and killed in 2013 by a chicago police officer. now a judge ordered the release at a hearing this morning and it comes just one day after the city dropped its opposition to making that video public. police have said they thought chapman had a gun and the officer was in fear of his life. chapman s family said he was not armed and the video is going to prove that. the family s attorney echoed that sentiment this morning. from the time cedric chapman gets out of the car, opens the door and blocks officer toth he runs across the street, he turns west on the south sidewalk, it s less than ten seconds and he s lying on the street mortally wounded. the independent police review
him. that officer, you can see there, in the street, in the intersection i believe based on the description of the lawyers, the family lawyers to me is lou toth, the officer who did not fire. that in the sort of lower corner let s see if we can see it again. i ve got a little delay on my return monitor here. but you really can t see the key moment that is in question. the officers say that chapman turned or started to turn toward the officers and pointed an object in his hands toward the officer, and that s why he fired. that takes place out of frame of this shot that you re looking at now. and then when the camera shifts to look down that street, you see the policeman over chapman, what i believe to be or what based on the description that the family lawyers made at the news conference, the police officer over chapman s body
the public to know if it wasn t for the protesters and if it wasn t for the calling of the cedric chapman video to be released, rahm would not have took that order off. reporter: at the same time, the federal judge had harsh words for the city law department. he said he was disturbed by some of the filings in this case from the law department in which they argued that the tape was not crucial to their defense. he said after looking at the tape, he thinks it is. he can t imagine how it could not be. and he also said that the city law department may have a problem in this case, because there are two defendants, two officers, the officer who shot cedric chapman, the officer kevin frye and lou toth, the other officer, he said that this tape actually helps lou toth, officer toth, because the chase is so fast, it doesn t appear there s anything he could have done to stop the shooting. thomas? nbc s john yang reporting in