RAW: Footage of Chicago police shooting Paul O’Neal
A Jaguar rolls toward a police SUV on a leafy Chicago street, passing between the SUV and a parked car, striking one.
One officer his gun drawn while still in his vehicle jumps out of the passenger side of the SUV, and as the Jaguar moves past, opens fire.
The officer strafes the scene with bullets, striking his own vehicle at least once, his gunfire passing near another officer standing on grass across the street. As the Jaguar gets farther away from them, both officers fire.
The officers fire some 15 shots in about five seconds.
Video clips released Friday by the Independent Police Review Authority show the chaotic moments surrounding the fatal Chicago police shooting of Paul O"Neal, 18, in the South Shore neighborhood on July 28.
O"Neal, an African-American, was driving the Jaguar convertible that police said had been reported stolen from Bolingbrook. Nine video recordings from police officers" dashcams and body cameras show various aspects of the shooting incident, including officers firing at the fleeing vehicle while other officers appear to be in the field of gunfire and reactions of officers in the shooting"s aftermath.
The videos show officers chasing O"Neal on foot around fences and through a backyard, where police said he was shot. The videos do not show the fatal shot, however, and police have said the officer"s body camera did not capture it.
After striking that first vehicle, the Jaguar eventually barrels head-on into a police SUV. On one recording, an officer can be heard yelling, "Emergency, emergency, let me see your f------ hands, hands up!"
Someone can be seen running away from the crashed Jaguar as police pursue. The officers dart behind homes, shouting their locations to dispatchers along the way. The officers run up driveways and jump fences. One officer struggles to get over a fence and goes around a home instead.
About 20 seconds after the head-on crash, five shots can be heard.
O"Neal was shot in the yard of a home in the 7300 block of South Merrill Avenue.
As officers descend on the wounded O"Neal, they yell, "Get down, get down on the ground!" and "Get your hands behind your back!"
Four officers surround O"Neal, his back and T-shirt soaked in blood. As police handcuff O"Neal, an officer can be heard saying, "F------ shoot at us."
An officer looks through O"Neal"s backpack and finds a screwdriver.
After the shooting, unidentified officers can be heard voicing confusion over what happened.
An officer who repeatedly shot at the Jaguar as it sped away says to another officer, "I shot at the car after it almost hit you."
"The bullets were f------ whizzing by me over here. I don"t know if they were the police or who," said one unidentified officer.
The officer who fired at the Jaguar multiple times can be heard on his own body camera expressing concerns about the shooting"s repercussions.
"F--- man, I"m going to be on the desk for 30 g*****n days now. F------ desk duty for 30 days now," he said. "Motherf-----. I shot. He almost hit him."
Body camera footage from the officer who said he believed he shot O"Neal in the yard indicated that he thought the shots he heard during the vehicle pursuit were coming from the Jaguar as it sped toward him. He acknowledges to another officer that he fired without knowing if O"Neal had a weapon.
"The shots were coming at us as the car was coming at us," he tells the officer. "I didn"t know if he was armed or not."
At another point, the officer claims O"Neal shot at him.
"Dude, I heard shots. I don"t f------ know, man. When he came out the yard, he shot at me," the officer said.
O"Neal was not armed, police said later.
After showing other officers where O"Neal was fired upon, the officer worried aloud about his job, and O"Neal"s life.
"Man, this is so f----- up, man" he said. "I don"t want nothing to happen to that f------ guy, dude. The way s---"s going man, I"m gonna be f------ crucified, bro."
The officer asks if a weapon was found in the car as a supervisor tells him to relax.
"I pray to G*d nothing happens to him," the officer repeats.
At one point, an officer tells other police, "Make sure these are all off," in an apparent reference to their body cameras.
One officer smokes a cigarette, seeming tense and shaken.
"Don"t say anything until the administrative process starts, OK?" another officer tells him.
Chicago Tribune"s Jeff Coen, David Heinzmann, Dan Hinkel, Todd Lighty, Steve Schmadeke and Annie Sweeney contributed.
Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-what-the-paul-oneal-video-shows-met-20160805-story.html
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