Little Village, Chicago shooting: CPD officers fatally shoot Timothy Glaze, apparently armed with knife, bodycam video shows
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CHICAGO (WLS) — Community members spoke Tuesday evening outside of the Little Village building where police shot and killed Timothy Glaze last month.

For weeks, they have been calling for answers and accountability from the Chicago Police Department, claiming officers could have used non-lethal action, since Glaze was having a mental health crisis.

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“We want a thorough investigation,” said Charles Odum Jr. with The Union to End Slums.

As calls for justice grew louder on Tuesday night, conflict ensued between community organizations.

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“I’m asking for more dollars to be paid out in treatment, and not trauma,” said Mark Clements with the Chicago Torture Justice Center.

Some demanded better mental health responders while others with the group Dare to Struggle, instead, called for charges to be filed against the officers who shot and killed Glaze.

All of this happened while CPD had a meeting with residents inside.

“We know that no mental health reforms aren’t going to fix the system!” one protester said.

Those opposing demands came on the very day police body-worn footage was released of the Jan. 3 encounter.

The police body-worn footage begins with officers going through the lobby entrance at Albany Terrace Apartments, speaking with a security guard once inside.

“What happened?” a worker can be heard saying in the footage.

“Uh, she’s fighting someone with a knife and screwdriver,” an officer responded.

“She’s fighting someone?” the worker said.

“- that her boyfriend’s attacking her,” the officer responded.

This all happened after police received at least two frantic calls from Glaze’s girlfriend just after 2 a.m. on Jan. 3.

“Move back! Ma’am, I’ve got a screwdriver in my hand. This man got me in the corner,” his girlfriend can be heard saying in a 911 call.

Video shows police taking the elevator and going straight to the apartment.

Officers then quickly back up from who they say was Glaze.

ABC7 froze the video right before officers shot the 58-year-old multiple times.

Video shows what appears to be the knife, police say, Glaze was wielding as he advanced at them.

In a statement from Glaze’s family on Tuesday, they said, in part, “Timothy was a son, a brother, a friend, and a human being who deserved compassion and care, especially in his moment of mental distress. Instead, he was met with violence and brutality that took his life in the most horrific way imaginable.”

Glaze’s girlfriend was also at the community gathering on Tuesday night, but refused to talk on camera, saying she was too distraught after seeing the police footage.

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability is still investigating the officers’ use of force

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