Chicago Police Supt. David Brown declined to offer any clear defense of the officer, telling reporters, “I’m not going to testify for the officer. No, the officer needs to write his own statement.”
Members of CPD's Vehicle Hijacking Task Force Team were trying to stop the vehicle around 10:14 p.m. when the boy got out of the car and ran in the 800 block of North Cicero Avenue, police said.
Brown said he did not know where on his body the child was hit. The superintendent also wouldn’t say how many rounds were fired or whether the boy had his hands up.Brown declined to offer any clear defense of the officer, telling reporters, "I’m not going to testify for the officer. No, the officer needs to write his own statement."
The Honda Accord was initially stolen Monday night after it was left running in the 100 block of West Randolph Street, Brown said. It was later used in a carjacking the following night in Oak Park, when someone in a black face mask stole a Honda CR-V left running with a 3-year-old inside near Lake Street and Oak Park Avenue, according to Brown.
Unarmed 13-year-old boy shot and seriously wounded by Chicago police after officers stop car wanted for carjacking A dispatcher at first says "shots fired at the police," but then says "shots fired by the police" as officers chased a suspect from the car. But as Brown and others later confirmed, there was no gunfire at officers.
The agency said it has no plans to publicly release any of the video it has received about the case, despite the lingering questions, saying it is prohibited by state law. COPA had also cited state law when it initially refused to release video of a Chicago police officer fatally shootingBut days later, the agency’s general counsel concluded that the law did not bar publication of body-worn and third-party video footage the agency has obtained to date.
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