9 new videos show events around deadly police shooting of black teenager

Video footage of the chain of events before Chicago police fatally shot a black teenager were released Friday, eight days after the incident occurred.

The nine videos, released by The Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA) in Chicago, are generating new attention around the deadly encounter involving a car chase on July 28. Following the car chase, police opened fire and killed an 18-year-old black teenager named Paul O'Neal. Another teenager was reportedly arrested but has not been identified.

The teens were fleeing from police in a stolen car in Chicago when police opened fire. Officers got out of their car and fired at O'Neal as he swung the car around them.

Police then chased O'Neal on foot after the teenager bolted from the vehicle. Officer body camera video shows plenty of footage of officers chasing O'Neal and from the aftermath of the fatal shooting. Video from the body camera of the officer who pulled the fatal trigger, however, reportedly does not exist.

Several videos show an initial car chase that ends in gunshots fired by police. In one of the videos, an officer who fired his weapon complains he'll now be on desk duty for a month, which is department policy.

Warning: The videos below show graphic violence.

In another video, police appear confused after the shooting, asking whether any of the officers were shot as O'Neal lies bleeding on the ground beside them, handcuffed. O'Neal was unarmed.

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson relieved three officers of their police powers last month over the shooting. The officers have not been identified.

The incident will go down as yet another black mark against the Chicago police department, whose officers have a history of disabling the audio of dashcam videos and torturing inmates, and whose officers have been under near-constant scrutiny for going on a year now, after video of a now-fired Chicago police officer shooting another teenager, Laquan McDonald, was released in November.

Political turmoil quickly followed the release of that video.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired then-police Superintendent Garry McCarthy almost immediately. Anita Alvarez, the state's attorney who often handled cases of police violence and had been accused of taking far too long to press any charges against officers, lost her March reelection bid in a landslide.

The relatively quick release of these most recent videos is interesting in context. The IPRA, the organization tasked with reviewing police misconduct, has up to 60 days to release videos of such incidents, but this time did so in hardly more than a week.

The IPRA has been attacked as being a simple cover-up agency whose implicit task is to proclaim officers innocent of any wrongdoing. This time around, the IPRA called the videos "shocking and disturbing," though said the videos are not the "only evidence."

Family lawyer Michael Oppenheimer has called for a special prosecutor to look into the shooting, which he called "beyond horrific."

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