On Friday, the police released footage of the July 28 shooting of Paul O’Neal in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, IL. Black Lives Matter activists have quickly mobilized because O’Neal, 18, was black and unarmed. Here are seven things you need to know about it.
1. The videos released don’t actually show O’Neal being shot. The police officer that fired the fatal shot did not have any footage from his body cam because it was not recording anything when the shooting occurred. Superintendent Eddie Johnson said that this was due to the fact that “they had had those cameras maybe about a week…there’s going to be a learning curve.” However, many protesters are accusing the police department of a cover-up. But the nine body camera and car camera videos released do reveal a great portion of what occurred, and can be seen below, via Bearing Arms‘s Bob Owens.
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