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Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, second from right, is blocked by three protestors as he tries to deliver a written statement about the recent release
of police shooting video to television reporters outside the police department headquarters Friday, Aug. 5, 2016, in Chicago.

                                                                                                                                                                                                         (AP Photo/Tae-Gyun Kim)

Video Shows Chicago Police Firing at Car as it Drives Away 

DON BABWIN                     neighborhood.                accusing the suspect of        O’Neal’s family, said the         to be made public within
Associated Press               None of the footage from     firing at police. Another      video showed officers tak-        60 days. That and other
CHICAGO (AP) — Video re-       last month shows the mo-     officer asks, “They shot       ing “street justice into their    policy changes represent
leased Friday shows Chica-     ment the suspected car       at  us  too, right?” suggest-  own hands.”                       an effort to restore public
go police firing repeatedly    thief was shot in the back.  ing police believed they       In all, nine videos were re-      confidence in the depart-
at a stolen car as it careens  Shortly after the shots are  had been fired upon and        leased from both body             ment after video released
down the street away from      fired, Paul O’Neal can be    that they did not know how     cameras and at least one          last year showed a black
them, then handcuffing the     seen lying face-down on      many suspects were pres-       dashboard camera. It was          teenager named Laquan
mortally wounded black         the ground in a backyard,    ent. No gun was recovered      the city’s first release of vid-  McDonald getting shot 16
18-year-old who was at the     blood soaking through the    from the scene.                eo of a fatal police shoot-       times by a white officer.
wheel after a chaotic foot     back of his T-shirt.         Attorney Michael Oppen-        ing under a new policy
chase through a residential    An officer is heard angrily  heimer, who represents         that calls for such material             Continued on Page 4