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THE EMBATTLED CITY of Chicago has released a video in yet another controversial case of a black teenager shot dead by a white police officer.
Filmed from a significant distance, the footage does not clearly show the moment in which Cedrick Chatman, 17, is shot.
But it does show him running from police in broad daylight before falling dead in the street.
The officer who fatally shot him said he opened fire out of fear for his life after Chatman turned and appeared to pull out a gun.
An iPhone case was later found near his body.
‘No reason’
A former investigator with the city’s Independent Police Review Authority disputed the officer’s assertion and said he had no reason to shoot someone who was running away.
He also says he is suing the city for wrongful dismissal and that he was ordered to soften his findings in six cases, including Chatman’s 2013 shooting.
“He waited until he had clear shot, and then he took one,” Lorenzo Davis told the New York Times.
That’s what it looked like to me.
Police tactics and racism have been the subject of an intense national debate since violent protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014 over the shooting death of another black teen, 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Warning: The video contains graphic footage. The incident takes place from 5.30 in the video.
The Chatman video comes two weeks after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a major overhaul of the city’s police force in the wake of a series of fatal shootings which sparked mass protests.
The US Department of Justice launched an investigation last month into how Chicago police use force citing the death of black teenager Laquan McDonald who was shot 16 times as he was walking away from officers in October 2014.
Prosecutors said officer Jason Van Dyke – who pleaded not guilty to murder charges last month – shot McDonald just 30 seconds after his cruiser pulled up to the scene and six seconds after stepping out of it.
The department came under scrutiny again late last month after police killed two more of the city’s African American residents when a father called for help with his “mentally disturbed” son.
The responding officer shot at the young man as he walked down the stairs while holding a baseball bat. The bullets also struck and killed a downstairs neighbor – a mother of five – who had answered the door.
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No better bunch of lads to do it!
Fair Fcuks To The Immigrant Paddies!!!
They Built (and still build) the World!!!
The hands that built the world.
get it right, the paddies are doing the grunt work. Meanwhile the paddies at home cant get it together to build a tiny 7km tunnel under Dublin
Jim Jameson. The men who built the Dublin tunnel are the same team that build tunnels all over the world. What they all tell you is that they do not have to deal with FF members of Govt. forcing contracts to go to friends companies, sub par workers getting jobs on site because they are related to Ministers or are cumann members.
That is the big difference here. If people are let do they get on with it, as seen all over the world, the barriers that people put have to deal with here are all political and all about pocketing money.
Well said Dylan.
I have personally worked on large international civil projects.
They finished many months under time, under budget and started bringing in income for the state 6-9 months ahead of schedule.
Take the same workers
and the same companies and use them on a project here in Ireland
And what you get is
extra months if not years in overruns, disputes, objections
project prices doubling
shoddy workmanship.
And basically an overexpensive, behind time over budget mess that is substandard and not fit for purpose.
The rot comes from the top in Ireland.
I think Jim’s referring to Dart Underground
So up to 370 sterling per day, over 2 grand in euro a week. Where’s my shovel…
for serious where do I sign up
Boring article Darragh…
It was a pun!!!!!!
One of which I got straight away :) lol
Just you and me giving me green thumbs so Shane!!
Digging a hole for yourself there!
Was a bit of a “grave” mistake ;)
I bet you wish the ground would just open up and swallow you.
That’s it lads…kick me in the hole…
Sorry, John, red thumb changed to green. Good one.
Lets make no bones about it, it was a fantastic pun.
That’s the pits Peter…your really dredging the depths now!
Fair play John, I wrote ‘boeing article’ on a plane story and got ALL the red thumbs! Oopsie
In fairness your pun was a good one…mine slightly obvious…except to 136 red thumbers!!
“Under Picaddilly’s Neon” And another generation thrown away because of greed gets to build the rest of the world. I wish you all the best lads, I genuinely do, and be glad that your tax money is not being thrown away to bond holders.
That’s great.
Was almost sold a move to the London construction scene there! Or would the journal offer me a proofreading gig??
Great article, good to see irish people doing a great job and getting a decent wage, well done!
Hares run free on the Wicklow mountains,
wild geese fly and the foxes play;
sporting Wicklow boys are working,
driving a tunnel through the London clay.
Up with the shields and jack it! Ram it!
Drive a tunnel through the London clay.
Lough Derg trout grow fat and lazy,
salmon sport in Cushla bay;
and fishermen from Connemara
drive a tunnel through the London clay.
Below Armagh the wild ducks breeding,
wild fowl gather on Loch Rea,
the sporting boys of Longford County
are digging a tunnel through the London clay.
The curragh rots on the Achill Island,
tourists walk on the Newport quay;
the Mayo boys have all gone roving,
digging a tunnel through the London clay.
The Carlow girls are fine and handsome,
all decked out so neat and gay;
the Carlow boys don’t come to court ‘em
they’re driving a tunnel through the London clay.
Down in the dark are the tunnel tigers
far from the sun and the light of day;
down in the land that the sea once buried,
driving a tunnel through the London clay.
Sean Keane does a version of that song that is tingling.
Heard it on “the south wind blows” a few weeks ago. Spine-tingling alright.
Hon the Lucky 7!!
It is good to see that our neighbours on the mainland will still take care of us when times are hard.
Getting highly skilled workers for free, never having had to pay a cent in child care and education etc.
The cost of emigration makes the housing bubble look cheap. 250k to get a child to 21 for shipping off to America or Australia and they are going at a 1000 a week.
Emigration has always cost this country its growth and potential just so the status quo could remain the same.
In mid eighties used to work on the road building in London , Luton bypass , pipe laying in Barton le clay with British gas with Murphy construction . Whatever u say about uk they will always be work there for people who want to work . Some guys worked there way upwards and now run many of the uk construction companies and they still respect the work ethos of the paddy . We built the channel tunnel and major railway line systems and hopefully we will continue to do so for many decades to come . If your willing and able get yourself down to cricklewood areas and put your cvs behind the bars and cafes there . U will pick up work just ensure you get the right tickets and documents
One of my accounts in the UK was. Huge construction company. I used to have to deal with all the site managers who were all Irish and I thinkpart of the reason I got that account because I was Irish too. ( Mind you i was brilliant at my job too ) lol They weren’t nice friendly Irish men though . They were very grumpy feckers altogether. They were under huge pressure so I think all the guys over there earn every penny . It’s not an easy ride by any means .
Sadly there is an old Irish mindset that unless your a grumpy angry bollox on the site that your not a good manager. Counter-productive as fup but that is what it is.
Great money!
Am looking to get on this project as an Engineer-anyone know how to contact John Small?
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