City attorneys had refused to release the video, claiming they were exempt in part because of the ongoing IPRA investigation, according to filings in the family's lawsuit. That led Godinez's lawyers to point out that the city's reasoning ran counter to last November's ruling by a Cook County judge who ordered the release of the now-infamous police dash cam video of the police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. In that ruling, Judge Franklin Valderrama, citing state FOIA law, said that the Police Department could not withhold footage in its possession that was subject to an investigation by another agency.