Videos from the fatal shooting of teenager Paul O’Neal by Chicago police show officers firing into a car that was being driven away from them and, later, officers handcuffing O’Neal as he lay wounded behind a home.Acting with uncharacteristic swiftness, Chicago officials on Friday released nine videos showing events leading up to the shooting of O'Neal, 18, last week.
The release came around 11 a.m. Friday, less than two hours after the head of the Chicago police oversight agency said the video footage was "shocking and disturbing" and that her heart goes out to the family of O’Neal.
The dead teen’s family was so distraught after viewing videos at the Independent Police Review Authority headquarters Friday morning that they left without making any public comment, their lawyer told reporters.
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</aside>"It is one of the most horrific things I have seen," Michael Oppenheimer, the family’s lawyer, said of the videos.