After 3 years release of Video showing Chicago Cops killing unarmed Teen

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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/14/us/chicago-police-shooting-cedrick-chatman-video/

Chicago (CNN)Newly released videos of a 2013 fatal police shooting show a teen running away from two police officers when he is shot and killed in broad daylight in a South Side Chicago neighborhood.

Cedrick Chatman, 17, was shot on January 7, 2013, by Officer Kevin Fry. The city of Chicago opposed release of the videos for more than three years.

They show Chatman jumping out of a car that was reported stolen, running across the street and squeezing between two parked cars as Fry's partner, Officer Lou Toth, gives chase. Chatman then hits an all-out sprint along the sidewalk toward an intersection. Toth sprints behind him.

Fry draws his Sig Sauer .45-caliber handgun in the middle of the street, plants his feet near the intersection and opens fire as Chatman appears to still be running away. A wounded, unarmed Chatman lies in the street as Toth handcuffs him and places his right boot on top of him. The whole event takes about 10 seconds.

Fry told investigators he feared for his partner's life and fired four shots, saying Chatman made a slight turn toward him and had an object in his hand that he believed to be a gun.

It turned out the object was a black iPhone box.

In ordering the videos' release on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gettleman indicated Fry might have put his partner's life in danger, saying Toth was running so close to the teen when shots rang out "you might say he was in the line of fire."

The videos also show two bystanders on the sidewalk near the intersection, just steps away when gunshots ring out and Chatman crumples to the ground. The two then sprint away from the direction of the gunfire.

Brian Coffman, the lead attorney for Chatman's mother, told reporters after Thursday's hearing that his team was "very happy" about the judge's decision. He said the teen's mother has no plans to watch the video, but she "wants the public at large to see what happens to Cedrick Chatman that day."

Coffman said he was disgusted when he saw the video of the officer putting his foot on top of the slain teen, as if he were a "trophy kill."

Trophy kill? More like road kill. You give the cops too much credit on how they think of mundanes.

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I love the cop having his boot on top of the dead unarmed teen. That's the perfect video capture of what cops think of idiot mundanes. Sometimes a picture/video is worth a 1000 words afterall.



Remember when one cop said "we don't have time for this...." Seems an ongoing theme....This cop didn't even have time to order a command. I guess that's not required anymore. Before it was COMPLY OR DIE. Now they don't have time to ask for compliance...

When Chatman made the slight move to his right with his torso, Fry said, he immediately planted both his feet and took a firing position. He did not say anything or give any orders before opening fire.

"I felt his threat was as such that I didn't have time to say anything."

When shots rang out, Toth was still trying to close in on Chatman. "I slowed my pursuit 'cause I didn't know where (the shots) were coming from," Toth said, according to police reports.

Toth said he moved in to handcuff the suspect while he was on the ground. He noticed there wasn't an object in his hands.

The original independent police investigator wanted to rule the shooting unjustified, saying the teen fled from Fry and Toth without posing a threat. That investigator, Lorenzo Davis, said he was fired when he refused to change his findings to a justified shooting.

tha fuck!? You trying to go behind the blue wall!?! FUCK YOU! YOU"RE FIRED!

A new investigator was assigned and ruled the shooting justified.

That's more like it. The nerve of some investigators...



Of course they were unwarranted. Complaints about the king's men from the sheeple should always be discounted.

Fry has had 30 complaints lodged against him over the years, including 10 allegations of excessive use of force. The police department found every complaint against him to be unwarranted.

In one case in 2007, Fry and a partner shot a 16-year-old black male in a school alcove after seeing a shiny object around his waist and fearing for their lives. The object wasn't a weapon but a "shiny belt buckle," according to an independent investigation of the shooting. The shooting was deemed justifiable, but CNN learned the city settled with the teen and his family for $99,000. There was no admission of guilt as part of the settlement.

It was a goddamn scary belt buckle. Fry had no choice but to shoot. Something something about safety. Kid should know better than to have shiny belt buckles, he did it to himself.

Although neither officer was charged in the Chatman case, two men were charged with first-degree murder in the teen's killing: his 23-year-old friend Martel Odom and a 22-year-old neighbor, Akeem Clarke.

Both were about 10 blocks away at the time of the shooting. The law in Illinois allows for anyone who sets in motion a chain of events that results in the death of another individual to be charged with murder. Odom and Clarke were accused of participating in the carjacking with Chatman but were not with him when police came across the stolen Dodge Charger.

Caroline Glennon, the public defender for Odom, accused the state attorney's office of "overreaching and abusing its power by charging two men with Cedrick's murder who weren't even there at the time he was killed."

"They sat in jail for over 2½ years fighting their case before the state finally dismissed the felony murder charges against them in exchange for a plea to lesser charges," Glennon told CNN.

The two pleaded guilty to robbery and unlawful vehicular invasion and were sentenced to 10 years in prison. They had each been looking at a minimum of 20 years in prison for murder.

At least justice was finally served and those that caused Chatman's death were put in jail. The ones that pulled the trigger...Or I mean..the ones that were at the scene of the crime causing the teens death.....or aah...who cares, they were thugs they are behind bars that's what matters.