Chicago Releases Video of Fatal Police Shooting as Mayor Calls for Peace
The New York Times
Anthony Alvarez, 22, died after a police officer shot him following a chase. A video showed he was running away, holding a gun.
CHICAGO — City officials in Chicago released body camera footage on Wednesday showing a police officer fatally shooting Anthony Alvarez, 22, after an early-morning foot chase on the city’s Northwest Side in March. The killing of Mr. Alvarez was the second police shooting in a month to prompt an outcry from the public and renew calls for an overhaul to the Chicago Police Department. In the videos, two officers can be seen driving into the parking lot of a gas station, lights flashing. Mr. Alvarez, in the parking lot, begins running away, and the officers eventually chase him on foot down an alley and around a corner into a front yard in a residential neighborhood.
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