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Chicago officials on Friday released videos from about 100 open investigations of officer-involved shootings and use of force after months of backlash over the police department"s begrudging transparency on such cases.
The unprecedented release unearths footage and previously unseen investigative reports for cases from the past five years, including more than a dozen fatal shootings of civilians.
The Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates allegations of police abuse, oversaw the release and created a web portal for exploring the cases.
The document dump comes nearly seven months after the city released dash cam footage showing the fatal 2014 police shooting of teenager Laquan McDonald a video that officials kept secret for more than a year.
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Its long-awaited release led to a murder charge against Officer Jason Van d**e, and a gradual trickle of other videos showing fatal police confrontations from the past few years. The video also led to an upheaval in the police departments leadership and a U.S. Justice Department investigation into the forces violent conduct.
In February, Mayor Rahm Emanuel approved a new transparency policy mandating the release of all documents from use-of-force incidents.
Fridays release unearthed videos from cases including:
Ismael Jamison, who reportedly attacked the passengers and driver of a city bus, then lunged at a responding officer in 2012. The video appears to show an officer shooting Jamison after his police confrontation, followed by other officers struggling to subdue him as he bleeds on the ground. He survived the shooting.
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Terence Clark, a Canadian tourist who got into a fight with an off-duty officer while watching the Blackhawks win the 2015 Stanley Cup on TV in a hot dog restaurant. Clark was treated for head injuries.
Surveillance footage from an electronics store robbery in 2012, which ended with one suspect David Strong being fatally shot, and the others, Leland Dudley and John Givens, being wounded. The surviving suspects were later convicted of Strongs murder, since he died as they committed a crime, but they also sued the city for excessive force.
Most of the videos do not have audio a common occurrence for Chicago police footage, which drew further scrutiny to the departments sporadic releases in the past six months. The videos are also not edited for length or clarity of what is shown.
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