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The day after black teenager Cedrick Chatman was fatally shot by a white Chicago Police Department officer in January 2013, lawyer Brian Coffman got a telephone call. It was the 17-year-old’s godmother, asking the Chicago attorney to represent the family. At the time, Coffman says, he thought the case would go nowhere.
“The reports were the kid was running down the street, had a black object in his hand, stopped in the middle of the street and turned around and pointed it at an officer,” he tells TIME. “But that was the furthest thing from the truth.” A video recording of what happened to Chatman almost three years ago, which Coffman says shows the unarmed teen running from police without threatening them, could be made public next month and is poised to be the latest incident of police force to potentially roil Chicago.
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