Authorities in the US city of Chicago have released graphic video of police officers chasing a fleeing car in a violent encounter that led to the shooting death of an African-American teenager.
The footage, captured on July 28 from police body and dashboard cameras and released on Friday, shows several officers chasing 18-year-old Paul O’Neal in a residential neighborhood with shots being fired.
It does not show the gunfire that killed O’Neal, who was wanted on suspicion of car theft, but shows the events leading up to and after the fatal shooting and the teen bleeding on the ground.
O’Neal family attorney Michael Oppenheimer described the shooting as a cold-blooded execution.
“It’s disturbing and it’s violent and it’s scary,” he said. “What I saw was pretty cold-blooded. There’s a lot of emotion there. There’s a lot of stuff. There’s no question in my mind they ran this kid down and murdered him.”
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