He also sustained major wounds to his esophagus, lawyer Andrew M. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Handout “CPD officers did not render immediate aide to A.G., but instead callously dragged him across the pavement and then turned their attention to an uninjured officer who crashed into a sign at the gas station while arriving on scene,” read the complaint. survived, “he has been permanently and catastrophically injured.” had complied with the officer’s instructions, and that while A.G. In a lawsuit filed by the family last month, the complaint charged that A.G.
The newly obtained video includes a clear view of A.G.’s hands when he was shot-as well as the moment that the boy was moved by officers-key details which were not clear in previous videos. The video obtained by The Daily Beast appears to be a complete and higher quality version of the surveillance footage published on Chicago Media Takeout. In May, videos released by Instagram page Chicago Media Takeout and WGN Chicago stoked rising calls for transparency around the shooting. No officers were fired on, and no weapon was recovered at the scene. But only moments after they had done so, a responding cop car careened into the gas station and crashed into the station’s sign, briefly drawing the attention of nearly all of the roughly 20 officers away from the teen.Ī.G.-who ran after police tried to stop a car in which he was a passenger-has not been charged with any crime.
