Video Footage Release Of Police Shooting An Unarmed Black Teenager

Several cameras, including a police one, captured footage of the Cedrick Chatman shooting.

The footage shows Cedrick Chatman, a carjacking suspect, being shot dead during a foot chase on the city's south side in January 2013.

As the wounded 17-year-old lies in the street, one of the officers places his boot on top of him as he is handcuffed.

The federal judge has ordered the release of surveillance video showing the Chicago police officer killing an unarmed black teenager.

Officer Kevin Fry, who is white, said he opened fire after seeing the teenager turn toward officers with a dark object in his hand.

Investigators later determined the object was an iPhone box.            

A lawyer for the Chatman family, who are pursuing a wrongful-death lawsuit, says the teenager neither turned nor posed a threat.

On Thursday, Judge Robert Gettleman lifted a protective order that barred the clip's release after the city dropped its objections.

He said he was "very disturbed" by the city's attempts to hold on to the footage.

In the police account, the teenager was stopped by two plain-clothes officers who ordered him at gunpoint out of a stolen Dodge Charger.

The teenager ran.

Officer Fry said he feared for his life and that of his partner, Officer Lou Toth, as he shot four times, hitting the fleeing suspect twice.

But the judge said on Thursday Officer Fry had endangered Officer Toth's life when he opened fire because he was so close to the teenager.

But a former IPRA supervisor said he believed the shooting was unnecessary.

Lorenzo Davis says he was fired after refusing to change the findings of his investigatory report.

Embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a former chief of staff, and the city administration have been facing intense scrutiny recently over police shootings.