friend when officers drove up, shined a light on him and ordered him to freeze because he had been fidgeting with his waistband. the man ran. the officers fired 45 rounds, including 28 rifle rounds, several rounds struck the man, killing him. officers found no gun on the man, however officers reported recovering a handgun nearly one block away. the gun recovered in the vicinity was determined to be fully loaded an inoperable and forensic testing determined there was no gunshot residue on the man s hands. chicago s independent police review authority, or ipra, which we have talked about on the show before, found the actions of the officers justified. this was not uncommon according to the report. in many of these cases, ipra generally accepted the officers versions of events which were later undercut by video evidence. another one, in one case officers justified using force by claiming a woman attacked them but in the video officers can be seen aggressively grabbing the woman, throwing
speaking at a press conference this morning the district attorney reinforcing what police are maintained. scott was holding a give up when he was shot and killed. based on the dash cam video phage and mrs. scott s video officers can be heard at least ten times commanding mr. scott to drop the gun. the video also shows that mr. scott did not comply with those commands. the decision not to charge brantly vincent was a difficult moment for scott s wife. holding bacterik tears as the mention of her husband s name. and at the end of the day whether he had a firearm in his hand or not, that is not the key question in terms of determining whether keith scott should have lost his life. it is whether or not that officer should have pulled the
see most everything. and there s nothing that we saw that even remotely suggested some kind of threat to the officer, some kind of prospect of bodily injury to anybody. so, we see a lot of videos and sometimes even with video officers are acquitted. but this one seemed to have the entire picture and it s a picture that could add up to conviction. we ll know a lot more about the officer, the arraignment is tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. his attorney had earlier said that he had thought that this video would show how his client was legitimately in fear for his life when he fired his weapon. i think people can see for themselves and decide for them obviously, the grand jury did and came back with a murder indictment. we will have the press conference in two minutes, taking a quick break and coming back with much more.