Body camera video shows Chicago area police shooting unarmed teen
CHICAGO -- South suburban Sauk Village police body camera videos, from March 2022, show officers stopping two teens and questioning them about a broken window. A woman told officers she believed the 14-year-old male was responsible for breaking it a day earlier. Police video and cellphone video, recorded by a witness, show this stop quickly escalating -- with one officer using a Taser on the teen.
The body camera video shows Langan catching up to the teen and, this time, he pulls out his Taser and deploys it as the teen jumps a fence. 'He was afraid they were coming after him,' said Hofeld, Jr. 'He was afraid they were going to shoot him again.'Two weeks after this incident, Langan was questioned by the Illinois State Police with Cook County prosecutors. A report obtained from this meeting says Langan claimed the shooting was an accident.
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