3 Chicago pigs stripped of their badges after black teen Paul O'Neal was shot in the back & killed..
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-man-shot-by-police-identified-20160729-story.html
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Two officers relieved of police powers in fatal South Shore shooting
Two Chicago police officers have been relieved of their police powers after department brass made the preliminary determination that they violated policy when they fired their weapons in an incident that killed an 18-year-old man, a police spokesman said Friday night.
Three officers fired their weapons in an incident that left Paul O'Neal, 18, dead after police say he was in a stolen Jaguar that sideswiped a squad car and hit a parked car, injuring some officers about 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the 7400 block of South Merrill Avenue.
Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson "spent most of this afternoon with top advisors and command staff reviewing the preliminary information from the incident. (Police) investigators determined 3 officers discharged their weapons in the course of their duties and given what is known thus far, it appears that departmental policies may have been violated by at least 2 of the police officers," said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi in an email Friday night.
"As of now, the two officers have been relieved of their police powers and will be assigned to administrative positions within the agency pending the outcome of (the Independent Police Review Authority)'s investigation and our continuing internal administrative review."
The officers involved initially were placed on administrative duties for 30 days per department policy. They now will be on administrative duty, but not have their police powers and not return to regular duty unless they are cleared in the IPRA and internal investigations.
O'Neal, of the 1700 block of East 70th Street, was positively identified Friday evening, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. He was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m. Thursday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital following the shooting in the 7400 block of South Merrill Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood, according to the office. An autopsy was scheduled for Saturday.
Friday night, a group of friends of O'Neal's and other activists held a vigil at the scene of the shooting.
The peaceful candlelight vigil of about 200 people gathered near the scene of the shooting in South Shore briefly became a chaotic scramble Friday night after one man ran through the crowd and pushed O'Neal's sister, Briana Adams, 23, who was quietly asking everyone to respect her brother.
The crowd ran in all directions, and more than a dozen officers rushed to the scene. No one was hurt.
Eventually the crowd reconvened and cheered loudly as one of the organizers announced on a bullhorn--incorrectly--that the officers had been fired for violating police policy.
Up until the point of the brief disruption, the crowd, gathered around votive candles shaped like a heart, listened as speaker after speaker called for justice.
"I lost my little cousin to police officers," Zhivago Short, a 20-year-old college student, told the crowd. "What are y'all going to do about it?"
He implored them to stay in school. Three people in the crowd held up stop signs, one saying "Cops stop killing us."
The vigil was held about 24 hours after the shooting, which took place when officers stopped a Jaguar S-type convertible reported stolen from Bolingbrook, police said. Officers had stopped the car near 7400 S. Merrill Ave. after it had been spotted in several parts of Chicago earlier in the day, police said.
As the officers got out of their car, the driver of the Jaguar "put the vehicle in drive and literally forced his way out," First Deputy Superintendent John Escalante said at the scene. The car sideswiped a squad car and also hit a car parked on the street, he said.
Officers then fired their service weapons, according to police. One of the officers "continued to follow the fleeing offender" and he was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to a statement later released by the department.
A 17-year-old boy who was also in the car was taken into police custody.
Some officers suffered "injuries during the vehicle apprehension" and were taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, the statement said.
The statement did not say a gun was recovered.
The officers involved in the shooting, as well as assisting officers on scene, were wearing body cameras, Escalante said. In-car video is also available, he said.
“This is going to be a very active investigation,” Escalante said. “It’s going to take a while to be able to view after downloading all the body camera footage as well as the in-car camera footage and whatever other video may be found during the canvass.”
Extra detectives were called to canvass the neighborhood, he said. Members of the Independent Police Review Authority were also on the scene.
Escalante did not take reporters’ questions.
“I also still have quite a few questions as to what exactly happened here, but it is still going to be a little while before we have our answers internally to those questions, as well as IPRA being able to have all of their questions answered as well,” he said.
The shooting was the second involving a Chicago police officer in 40 minutes. Shortly before 7 p.m. in Englewood, police shot a man while responding to a possible robbery. The man was reported in fair to serious condition.
The statements from Escalante and the department are not specific on when the officers began firing and when they stopped firing. They also do not say whether officers continued firing as the driver ran away--or if it was the driver who was killed.
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Holla at me when they get charged and thrown in jail.
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Meanwhile Dylan roof eating burger King after killing 9 people.
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http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/autopsy-18-year-old-man-killed-by-cpd-officers-was-shot-in-back/Autopsy: 18-year-old man killed by CPD officers was shot in back
An 18-year-old man slain by Chicago Police officers Thursday night in the South Shore neighborhood died of a gunshot wound to the back, an autopsy has found.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office ruled Paul O’Neal’s death a homicide on Saturday, a day after two of the three officers who opened fire on him were “relieved of their police powers” because they might have violated department policy in the shooting, CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
CPD investigators determined [three] officers discharged their weapons … given what is known thus far, it appears that departmental policies may have been violated by at least [two] of the police officers,” Guglielmi said in an email Friday.
Those two “have been relieved of their police powers and will be assigned to administrative positions” pending the outcome of an investigation by the Independent Police Review Authority and an internal administrative review, he added.
The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. in the 7300 block of South Merrill, where officers tried to pull over a Jaguar convertible reported stolen earlier that day, according to police.
The Jaguar was blocked in, but the officers opened fire when the driver tried to take off. He crashed into a parked vehicle, police said.
O’Neal, of the 1700 block of East 70th Street, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died at 9:08 p.m.
The other person in the car, a 17-year-old boy, was arrested and charged with a felony count of possession of a stolen vehicle, police said Saturday. His court information was not immediately available. It wasn’t clear who was the driver.
On Friday, Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson “spent most of this afternoon with top advisors and command staff reviewing the preliminary information,” Guglielmi said. The officers involved were wearing body cameras, and the police vehicles at the scene had their cameras activated, he said. -
Administrative positions huh...
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http://wgntv.com/2016/07/30/third-cpd-officer-relieved-of-police-powers-after-fatal-shooting/Third CPD officer relieved of police powers after fatal shooting
CHICAGO — A third Chicago Police officer has now been relieved of his police powers in connection with the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal Thursday night, according to a statement.
The decision from CPD leadership comes after the Cook County Medical Examiner ruled O’Neal’s death a homicide from a gunshot wound to the back Saturday evening.
An official statement said Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson made the call to take the officer off active duty after speaking with investigators and reviewing video evidence.
The shooting happened at 7:30 p.m. Thursday after police spotted a stolen Jaguar near 73rd and Merrill. According to the arresting officers, as they got out to confront O’Neal he put the car in drive and side-swiped a squad car and a parked car. That’s when they officers fired.
O’Neal was eventually transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital and pronounced dead.
Johnson initially relieved only two of the officers of their police powers, saying department policies “may have been violated.”
All three have been assigned to administrative duty while the IPRA investigation continues. -
http://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/johnson-discusses-decision-to-strip-3-cops-of-powers/Johnson discusses decision to strip 3 cops of powers
Chicago Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said he was left “more questions than answers” after watching a video of a fatal police shooting last week.
“I can’t go into the specifics of it, but I just have some concerns over some of the things that I did view in the video,” Johnson said, referring to body camera and dashcam video of the shooting Thursday night in the South Shore neighborhood.
Three officers have been placed on desk duty.
Johnson, who said it appears the shooting violated departmental policy, made the comments at a news conference Sunday at police headquarters.
Johnson was asked if the officers’ level of experience played a role in the shooting. The officers all had less than three years on the job.
“Yeah, it goes to their in . . . ,” he said, stopping himself mid-word. “Listen, let me just be clear about something. I said from Day One, when officers engage in intentional misconduct or inappropriate behavior they have to be held accountable. But we also have to understand honest mistakes can be made at the same time.”
“These officers have to make these decisions in a split second. We have the luxury of going back and reviewing video, sitting at home or sitting in our offices and reviewing actions that police officers make. Having been in shootings and car chases myself, I know how quickly you have to make those decisions. So if it’s an honest mistake, then we’ll get them training, coaching, mentoring and get them back out there. If it’s intentional misconduct, then they have to be held accountable for it.”
The shooting happened about 7:30 p.m. in the 7300 block of South Merrill Avenue after the officers tried to pull over a Jaguar convertible that had been reported stolen earlier that day. The driver of the Jaguar, Paul O’Neal, rammed one police car head-on and sideswiped another, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Sunday.
Two officers shot into the Jaguar. Police believe the fatal bullet came from a third officer who, an autopsy concluded, shot O’Neal in the back after he’d exited the Jaguar and ran, Guglielmi said.
A 17-year-old boy who was in the car with O’Neal has been charged with possession of a stolen vehicle.
Johnson and his staff relieved two officers of their police powers Friday after spending most of the day reviewing reports and video. After the autopsy results were released Saturday, Johnson again called his staff into the office for further review and decided to relieve the third officer as well, Guglielmi said.
Johnson took the pro-active measure as the Independent Police Review Authority conducts the official investigation to determine if any policies or laws were violated in the shooting. IPRA will then recommend any disciplinary action and hand their findings to Cook County state’s attorney’s office to weigh charges.
Video of the shooting has not been made public, but a new policy requires the video to be released within 60 days.
A fourth officer on the scene did not fire a weapon and remains on active duty.
All four officers were wearing body cameras.
“They didn’t take off their body cameras. The officers thought they had been fired upon so they were checking themselves for possible injuries, but according to our general orders, you roll your body camera until the incident has concluded,” Guglielmi said.
Johnson would not say what policy he believes the officers violated and wouldn’t discuss details of what the video contains.
“While I can’t go into specifics or answer questions about the incident, given the ongoing investigation, what I can tell you is that CPD is committed to proceeding with transparency and accountability for whatever is found in this investigation,” he said.
“I’ve said it publicly many times that CPD is only as strong as the faith that the community has in it, and I’m committed to keeping my promise to all Chicagoans to restore that faith, while also never losing sight of the courage, commitment and sacrifice the men and women of the Chicago Police Department make every day.”
The move comes only days after IPRA recommended that three officers be fired for 2013 shootings it deemed unjustified. The two shooting incidents involved officers shooting into vehicles. IPRA ruled the officers were not in danger when they fired their weapons.
In the past two months, the police oversight group has decided more police shootings were unwarranted than it had in its previous previous nine years of existence.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-police-shooting-eddie-johnson-met-20160801-story.htmlChicago police: Body camera didn't record cop's fatal shooting of teen in back
The body camera of a Chicago police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager on the South Side last week was not recording when he opened fire, police officials said Monday.
Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the department is investigating why the equipment didn't capture the shooting of 18-year-old Paul O'Neal, who was struck in the back.
The officer, as well as two others involved in the shooting, had received the camera equipment just recently, according to Guglielmi.
The department moved swiftly in the days after the Thursday night shooting to relieve all three officers of their police powers after a preliminary determination concluded they had violated department policy.
Meanwhile, the family of the slain teen has scheduled a news conference for later Monday.
O'Neal was shot about 7:30 p.m. Thursday near 74th Street and Merrill Avenue after he crashed a reportedly stolen Jaguar into two Chicago police vehicles and took off running.
Two officers had opened fire at O'Neal while he was in the Jaguar, according to police sources. A third officer who had been in one of the police vehicles struck by the Jaguar gave chase after O'Neal fled on foot and fatally shot him. The Cook County medical examiner's office said O'Neal was struck in the back.
Police have recovered video from body cameras and dashboard cameras that captured parts of the shooting, including footage of an officer firing at the Jaguar after it struck the first vehicle, sources have told the Tribune.
But Superintendent Eddie Johnson, speaking at an unrelated news conference Monday morning, confirmed that the fatal encounter was not captured on the officer's body camera.
The city rolled out body cameras in 2015 with a pilot project in the Shakespeare District. Department officials recently expanded the program to six additional districts, including the South Shore community where O'Neal was shot.
Chicago's use of cameras, those on the body and dashboard, has been increased significantly in recent months as the department faced one of the biggest crises in its history. The release of a video last fall of a white officer shooting black teen Laquan McDonald 16 times led to protests around the city, the firing of former Superintendent Garry McCarthy and the launching of a U.S. Justice Department probe of policing practices in Chicago.
The city also has a new policy that calls for the release of videos of shootings within 60 days unless a law enforcement agency seeks an additional 30-day extension.
Johnson moved quickly over the weekend to strip all three officers of their police powers, assigning each to paid administrative duties.
Johnson has not commented specifically on which departmental policies were violated in the shooting, but in 2015, the department revised its use-of-force policy to prohibit firing on a moving vehicle if it was the only threat against the officers or others.
Wow how convenient the body camera didn't capture that murder.. I'm sure there's a perfect reasonable explanation to why to body camera just stop working like that.. I know those fine upstanding Chicago police officers will figure out what happened and hold someone accountable.. Smh... -
I've never heard of a gopro just up and not working and that's sold in retail stores across the world. So you telling me that these departments spend millions on pieces of ? ?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/body-camera-failed-to-record-chicago-police-shooting-of-black-teenager.html?_r=0Body Camera Failed to Record Chicago Police Shooting of Black Teenager
CHICAGO — A Chicago officer whose police powers were suspended after the officer shot an African-American teenager in the back last week was wearing a body camera, but the device was not operating and did not record the fatal encounter, officials said on Monday.
Advocates for the family of Paul O’Neal, the 18-year-old who was killed on Thursday, reacted skeptically to claims of the faulty body camera, wondering aloud why the department had invested in the technology if it did not work.
“If there is not a cover-up here, I don’t know where there is one,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a lawyer who on Monday filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family.
The shooting happened after officers chased a stolen Jaguar convertible through the South Side before it collided with a police cruiser on a residential street. Two officers opened fire. Cameras captured some early stages of the encounter, but not the fatal gunshot, apparently fired by another officer after Mr. O’Neal fled the crash scene on foot.
Anthony Guglielmi, a Chicago police spokesman, noted that police officers in that part of the city had been using body cameras only for a few days, and said the authorities were investigating why there was no footage of the fatal gunshot.
The Chicago Police Department has been criticized for a series of shootings of black men in recent years, and it is under federal investigation and still in turmoil after protests over the shooting death of a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, in 2014. The use of body cameras had been promoted as a step toward transparency.
The three officers were stripped of their police powers for their actions during Thursday’s shooting. The police superintendent, Eddie Johnson, who promised to rebuild trust with the community when he was promoted this year, said footage from other body cameras and a dashboard camera was “very helpful” in leading him to believe department policies may have been violated.
The officers were not identified, and video footage was not made public.
Mr. O’Neal’s death is being investigated by Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, an agency that until recently almost never faulted officers in shootings. Officials at the county and federal prosecutors’ offices in Chicago declined to comment on Monday on whether they were involved in the case.
While police officers in Chicago have seized 5,000 guns this year, murders are up sharply, and the police union has cited low officer morale as the Justice Department investigation continues. Amid all of this, Mr. Johnson said it was important to recognize that a misjudgment by an officer was not necessarily intentional brutality.
“Policing isn’t easy,” Mr. Johnson said in an interview on Monday. “We’re asking these cops to make split-second decisions, and sometimes they’re life-or-death decisions.”
But grief filled the street where Mr. O’Neal was shot. Near a makeshift memorial of teddy bears and signs, Ja’Mal Green, an activist serving as a spokesman for the family, said Mr. O’Neal’s death and others like it made it difficult to repair relations between Chicago’s police officers and its black residents.
“Once we can have some type of cameras that work and actually show our side of the story,” Mr. Green said, “and actually get these officers prosecuted and hold these officers accountable, that’s when we can start seeing a relationship between police and the community.” -
http://abc7chicago.com/news/family-of-man-shot-by-cpd-file-federal-civil-rights-lawsuit/1452548/FAMILY OF MAN SHOT BY CPD FILE FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT
The family of an unarmed 18-year-old man who was fatally shot in the back by Chicago police filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on Monday, their attorney said.
The lawsuit names the Chicago Police Department and the officers involved in the shooting. The officers have not been publicly identified. However, three officers have been relieved of their duties in connection with the shooting.
The lawsuit alleges wrongful death and that Paul O'Neal's constitutional rights were violated, said family attorney Michael Oppenheimer.
"If he was in a stolen vehicle and he committed a crime, that is for the court system to decide what his sentence should be, not the police officers executing this boy.
Shooting him in the back," said family spokesman Ja'Mal Green.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Family-of-Man-Killed-in-Police-Involved-Shooting-File-Wrongful-Death-Suit-388878132.htmlFamily of Man Killed by Police File Wrongful Death Suit; Police Say Body Cam Didn't Record Fatal Shots
The family of an 18-year-old man shot to death by Chicago Police last week has filed a wrongful death suit in federal court amid questions as to why a body camera worn by one of the officers did not record the shooting, according to an attorney representing his family.
Paul O'Neal, of the 1700 block of East 70th Street, was killed around 9 p.m. Thursday night in the city's South Shore neighborhood, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office. He was unnarmed, a police spokesman confirmed.
"All we have asked for is that the truth come out," said Michael Oppenheimer, attorney for the O'Neal family. "And all of the sudden a lot of these body cams don't work."
A police spokesperson said that the body cameras "were working" and had been issued to police in that district in the past eight to ten days, but it was unclear how many times they had been used prior to the shooting.
"The officers played judge, jury and executioner. Their own sense of justice. We want justice now," Oppenheimer said.
Ja'mal Green, a spokesman for the O’Neal family, said Monday that functional body cameras and holding police accountable are crucial to establishing a relationship between authorities and the communities they police.
"The biggest thing I want you guys to understand is that Paul was unarmed," Green said. "So, did he pose a threat to an officer with a gun and a Taser?" -
should be charged
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-ipra-to-release-paul-o-neal-videos-friday-20160803-story.htmlOversight agency to release video of fatal police shooting on South Side
The Independent Police Review Authority plans to make public this Friday videos related to the fatal police involved shooting of Paul O’Neal last week on the South Side, authorities said.
Though the fatal shooting itself was not captured on video because the officer’s body camera failed to record it, the video materials are related to the shooting that occurred in the 7400 block of South Merrill Avenue on July 28.
IPRA made the decision to make it available on their online case portal, www.portal.iprachicago.org, at 11 a.m. Friday, according to Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Chicago Police Department.
The release of the videos in this case has come earlier than expected. The Laquan McDonald scandal, which included allegations that city officials tried to hide the troubling video of the shooting from the public, led to a new city policy that calls for the release of videos of police shootings within 60 days.
“Supt. Johnson and IPRA administrator Sharon Fairley have spoken extensively on the need to be transparent, open and honest during this investigation and the agencies collectively agreed the video in this case is in the public’s interest,’’ Guglielmi said via text message Wednesday night when asked why it was done early.
O'Neal, who was unarmed, was shot about 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the South Shore neighborhood after he crashed a reportedly stolen Jaguar into two Chicago police vehicles and took off running near 74th Street and Merrill Avenue.
Two officers had opened fire at O'Neal while he was still in the Jaguar, according to police sources. A police dashboard camera captured one of the officers firing his weapon, a source said.
A third officer who had been in one of the police vehicles struck by the Jaguar gave chase after O'Neal fled on foot and fatally shot him.
O'Neal was shot in the back, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Guglielmi said the department is investigating why the body camera worn by the officer who fatally shot the 18-year-old O'Neal failed to show those critical moments.
Based on a preliminary review, police don't believe that officer intentionally disabled the body camera, a source said. Rather, investigators suspect the crash or the officer's lack of experience operating the camera played a role in the failure.
The Independent Police Review Authority is investigating the shooting, but police Superintendent Eddie Johnson moved quickly over the weekend to strip the three officers of their police powers, putting them on paid administrative duties. He didn't disclose the specific reasons for his actions other than that they had violated department policies. -
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http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/185498543-storyChicago police warn violence against law enforcement possible after shooting video released
Chicago police have warned their law enforcement counterparts across the nation that the release of body camera video showing the fatal shooting of a black man by officers may cause violence against law enforcement.
According to a memo seen by FoxNews.com, authorities said making the video of Paul O'Neal's death public, coupled with the Aug. 9 anniversary of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Mo., "may cause an uptick in violence against police nationwide."
O'Neal, 18, was shot in the back on July 28 during a stolen vehicle investigation on Chicago's South Side. Three Chicago police officers have been relieved of police powers after a preliminary determination that they had violated department policy.
Chicago's Independent Police Review Authority says that video from body cameras worn by two of the three officers who shot at O'Neal will be released at 11 a.m. CT Friday. The third officer's body camera was not recording at the time.
The video release conforms to a new city policy requiring the release of relevant video within 60 days of a police shooting. A former Chicago police officer is already awaiting trial for first-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald.
Police across the country have been on high alert since a sniper killed five officers during a Black Lives Matter protest on July 7. Three officers in Baton Rouge, La. were killed ten days later in apparent revenge for the shooting of Alton Sterling by police.
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