Video of black teen's fatal shooting by Chicago Police to be released [details here]

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A graphic video allegedly shows an African-American teenager being shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer.

The video shows a 17-year-old African-American teenager Laquan McDonald being shot by Officer Jason Van Dyke on Oct. 2014. According to the update by New York Times, the city of Chicago will release the dash cam video next week as ordered by Cook County Judge Franklin Valderrama on Thursday.

A $5 million settlement has been agreed between the city of Chicago and the McDonald family. Officer Van Dyke may possibly be indicted next week.

But the teen's mother is worried that the violent video may ignite racially-spurred protests similar to what happened in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore.

While Ferguson's Michael Brown and Baltimore's Freddie Gray were not carrying weapons, McDonald was reportedly carrying a 4-inch knife. According to Huffington Post, the teen apparently did not drop his weapon when he was caught by the police. McDonald was shot after the police union claimed that the teen lunged at a police officer. This was opposed by the city's attorney who said that the teen was shot while he was walking away from the officers.

ABC News reports that the teen's lawyers got ahold of the video and stated that Officer Van Dyke open fired on the teen and continued shooting McDonald after he fell to the ground. McDonald's autopsy revealed that he had PCP hallucigenic drug in his system and was shot 16 times.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Thursday the he hoped the investigation would be concluded by the time the video will be released to the public next week, Nov. 25.

"Police officers are entrusted to uphold the law, and to provide safety to our residents," the mayor said in an email to reporters, as reported by Chicago Tribune. "In this case unfortunately, it appears an officer violated that trust at every level."

Van Dyke's lawyer, Daniel Herbert released a statement on Thursday that the video may be one-sided and preferred to not have it released while the investigation is ongoing as it may affect the outcome.

"The video is graphic, disturbing and difficult to watch, as any video of a man being shot to death would be," Herbert said. "It's impossible from viewing the video to determine exactly what my client was experiencing at the time in which he fired the shots. ... It's not showing from his eyes, which is an important distinction."