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Judge rules video of Chicago police shooting can be released
Source: Reuters
US | Thu Jan 14, 2016 12:33pm EST
Judge rules video of Chicago police shooting can be released
CHICAGO | BY MARY WISNIEWSKI
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that video footage of a fatal Chicago police shooting of a black teenager in 2013 can be released as protesters renewed criticism of Mayor Rahm Emanuel for the handling of police killings.
Images from neighborhood surveillance cameras showing the killing of Cedrick Chatman, 17, in January 2013 had been sealed under a protective order.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman comes with Emanuel and the police department already under pressure in the 2014 fatal police shooting of another teenager. The video of that killing was not released until last November.
Gettleman said at a hearing on Thursday that releasing the Chatman videos would not interfere with finding impartial jurors for a civil suit brought by the teenager's family.
Lawyers for the city said they would distribute the video later on Thursday.
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Judge rules video of Chicago police shooting can be released
CHICAGO | BY MARY WISNIEWSKI
A federal judge ruled on Thursday that video footage of a fatal Chicago police shooting of a black teenager in 2013 can be released as protesters renewed criticism of Mayor Rahm Emanuel for the handling of police killings.
Images from neighborhood surveillance cameras showing the killing of Cedrick Chatman, 17, in January 2013 had been sealed under a protective order.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman comes with Emanuel and the police department already under pressure in the 2014 fatal police shooting of another teenager. The video of that killing was not released until last November.
Gettleman said at a hearing on Thursday that releasing the Chatman videos would not interfere with finding impartial jurors for a civil suit brought by the teenager's family.
Lawyers for the city said they would distribute the video later on Thursday.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-chicago-police-idUSKCN0US23I20160114
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