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Burger King manager: Police erased video of Chicago shooting

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Burger King manager: Police erased video of Chicago shooting - Yahoo News

A Burger King manager who accuses Chicago police of erasing surveillance video in the case of a black teenager shot last year by a white officer says he has testified before a federal grand jury investigating the shooting.

Jay Darshane told the Chicago Tribune that the FBI also took the video recorder containing all of the restaurant's surveillance images.

It's not clear what that video might have shown, but the accusation of tampering has fueled the anger of protesters who say the city, the police and local prosecutors have mishandled the case. After months of refusals, the city released police squad car video of the shooting on Tuesday in response to a judge's order. But both the police chief and the Cook County state's attorney deny the Burger King video was altered.

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"I was just trying to help the police with their investigation," Darshane said. "I didn't know they were going to delete it."

He said that when the officers left, almost two hours later, there was an 86-minute gap in the recording, including the time surrounding the shooting.
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IF this is true, it does not look good.
 
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Beaudreaux said:
Yeah, I read about this earlier tonight. Looks like someone may go to the big house over this - the feds will be to ones working this one.

If it turns out to be true, then I hope they find everyone that was involved, all the way up the line, and they all go to federal prison over it - if it's true.
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I think the $64K question will be: Have they done this before? and then....To how many people?
 
There's another thread on this from earlier and, like I said in that thread, stuff like this is why people don't trust the police. There needs to be a federal investigation into this case - into how the Chicago Police Department, the Mayor, the State's Attorney and several other individuals/groups handled this situation.
 
The level of cover up going on in this case is as upsetting as the shooting itself. 16 shots in 15 seconds, some after he was already down, is bad enough. Altering confiscated surveillance video shows us the clear intention to secure the officer's account of events supporting this whole "I was afraid for my life" defense. Now that we know so much more, and have other video of the event, it seems unlikely that this officer can beat the case in court. And we should be looking to other indictments for whoever tried to alter these other videos.
 
OrphanSlug said:
The level of cover up going on in this case is as upsetting as the shooting itself. 16 shots in 15 seconds, some after he was already down, is bad enough. Altering confiscated surveillance video shows us the clear intention to secure the officer's account of events supporting this whole "I was afraid for my life" defense. Now that we know so much more, and have other video of the event, it seems unlikely that this officer can beat the case in court. And we should be looking to other indictments for whoever tried to alter these other videos.
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We're always hearing about how people should report suspicious behavior from the police. Any bets that the cops kept silent about this and won't turn in anyone who was involved with tampering/destroying evidence?
 
reinoe said:
We're always hearing about how people should report suspicious behavior from the police. Any bets that the cops kept silent about this and won't turn in anyone who was involved with tampering/destroying evidence?
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We can already safely assume there was coordination between officers to ensure an outcome for this "investigation," only later did things start to come out telling us there is a problem here. For the original conclusions of the investigation last year to be supported we can also assume some officers kept silent about what really happened that night, which makes them culpable.
 
OrphanSlug said:
The level of cover up going on in this case is as upsetting as the shooting itself. 16 shots in 15 seconds, some after he was already down, is bad enough. Altering confiscated surveillance video shows us the clear intention to secure the officer's account of events supporting this whole "I was afraid for my life" defense. Now that we know so much more, and have other video of the event, it seems unlikely that this officer can beat the case in court. And we should be looking to other indictments for whoever tried to alter these other videos.
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I think this is the start of a very big lawsuit to the Chicago PD. It couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch.
 
Sadly, or so it sounds and reads, the police has become a state inside of a state with their own views on morality and justice. And that is not a good thing, if anything the police has to be held to a higher standard compared to ordinary citizens who come into contact with them. Criminals are a whole different matter but then too the police should be held to standards that can reasonably be expected from police officers.

Sadly police officers have the possibility (almost none do this though) to alter the evidence to suit them. It has been seen in prisoners being released after sometimes decades behind bars and it has been seen in situations where police have been caught in lies to justify them doing things they have no business doing.

And it has to end. All police shootings should be handled by the FBI, no local internal affairs and if that is not possible, then it might be the best choice to have every state start a statewide agency purely responsible for the investigation of police misconduct (if there is a complaint) and every single shooting incident the police is involved in.
 
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