Heard Audio of Chicago Shooting? You May Have Been Fooled

Frame from dash-cam video provided by the Chicago Police Department: Laquan McDonald (R) walks down the street moments before being shot by officer Jason Van Dyke in Chicago on Oct. 20, 2014. Amid an outcry after the city waited more than a year to release dash-cam footage of Officer Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced this week that he was setting up a special task force to examine, among other things, the city’s video-release policy. Chicago Police Department

Hours after the city of Chicago released audio-free dashcam video of a white officer shooting a black teen 16 times, a 35-second excerpt with sound appeared online.

Viewers could see and supposedly hear Officer Jason Van Dyke firing nine rapid shots at Laquan McDonald, pausing for nearly 10 seconds, then firing seven more as McDonald lay on the ground.

This video, which garnered nearly half a million views on social media, added further fuel to already simmering suspicions that police were covering something up, given Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder on Nov. 24 — more than a year after the shooting.

A Nov. 24, 2015, photo of Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who was charged with first degree murder after a squad car video caught him fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. Cook County Sheriff's Office via AP