CHICAGO — Amid concerns about possible unrest, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel invited ministers and community activists to City Hall on Monday to discuss the upcoming release of a video that shows a white police officer fatally shooting a black teenager last year.
Seventeen-year-old Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times. Police have said he refused to drop a knife.
There is growing concern in the community about what could happen when people see the incident for themselves. A judge last week ordered the Police Department to release the police car dashcam footage by Wednesday.
The mayor was seeking the help of the ministers in preventing the kind of unrest seen in Baltimore and Ferguson, Mo., after the killings of young black men by police in those cities.
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In Minnesota, Governor Mark Dayton said Monday that he has seen a video recorded on the night a black man was shot by a Minneapolis police officer, but he said the footage is inconclusive.
Dayton said he watched video recorded by an ambulance that was at the scene of Jamar Clark's shooting Nov. 15.
Authorities say the 24-year-old Clark was shot during a struggle with police, but some people who say they saw the shooting allege Clark was handcuffed.
Protesters and Clark's relatives are calling for investigators to release video of the incident.