It's against Chicago's use of force policy for cops to fire into cars when vehicle represents only threat.
CHICAGO — “Bitch ass motherfucker,” the Chicago police officer says as unarmed 18-year-old Paul O’Neal lays dead or dying on the ground.
“Get your hands behind your back. Fucking shoot at us…”
Except O’Neal never shot at police on July 28. The only shots fired came from multiple officers who shot at the teen as he first fled in a stolen Jaguar, then ran on foot through backyards in the area of 75th and Merrill in the city’s South Shore neighborhood.
"Make sure this (body-camera) is off" one officer says to another after PaulONeal shooting.
“They shot at us too, right?” an officer asks after as O’Neal lays bleeding from a gunshot wound to the back in an unsuspecting citizen’s driveway.
This latest video may put the Chicago police back under the microscope. The O’Neal shooting also comes at a time when officers are being met with aggressive behavior on Chicago’s streets, a veteran officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The Daily Beast. Police are being cut off in traffic and are met with curses at calls for service throughout the city, the officer said.
As a result many cops are reluctant to perform traffic and street stops for fear that they’ll be recorded, becoming the next subject of a viral video that paints police in Chicago as overly aggressive.
Recently, the officer said, a woman had stopped traffic so she could cuss out another woman on the sidewalk. When the officer approached the car and told her to move, she looked at the cop and said, “I don’t give a fuck about the police.”
“So what the fuck am I supposed to do? If I try to take her out of the car you know she’s gonna fight. And then everyone’s going to start recording and then I’m the cop who roughed up a female driver over a traffic stop,” the officer said. “And if I drive away I’m gonna look like a bitch.”
Luckily for the officer, the woman did eventually move her car.
He continued, referencing a story by a left-leaning Chicago media outlet that called for the abolition of traffic stops, and protesters who have said they want to defund the police.
“At some point, we have to ask ourselves as a society whether we want police, or not,” the officer said.
I vote we abolish the police, call a crackhead instead they are more intelligent and respond faster than police.
The officers involved in the O’Neal shooting were immediately stripped of police powers by Supt. Eddie Johnson for the vaguely-defined reason of violating department policy. It could be that some involved in the chase ignored or side-stepped department pursuit directives by trying to box O’Neal in that day. Now they’re being investigated by IPRA, itself a troubled agency that often sides with officers in use of force cases.
Last year, a former IPRA investigator told The Daily Beast he was fired because he refused to change his findings on three fatal police shootings to exonerate the officers involved. In another case, an IPRA investigator alleges he was beaten by several police officers during a DUI stop when they discovered he worked for the agency.
There is no video, so far, of the actual shooting. PaulONeal family lawyer wants a special prosecutor. “I believe it was an execution."
