A judge set Van Dyke’s bond at $1.5 million, and ruled he must meet at least 10 percent of that amount to make bail, Reuters reported. He was met at Cook County Jail by his father. He is due back in court for a status hearing on December 18.
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In order to get out of jail, Van Dyke will have to post $150,000 to be released. There was no expression on his face when his no bond status was lifted.
Van Dyke is a Chicago native with a wife and two children.
The Police Department suspended Van Dyke without pay last week.
Judge Donald Panarese Jr. will decide on Van Dyke’s fate after watching the dash-cam footage for himself. “Laquan McDonald has now joined Michael Brown and a number of other names as our kind of shorthand for fundamental defining of structural issues in American life”. Police were responding to reports that McDonald had a knife and was suspected of burglarizing cars, police said.
“The officer’s actions were not justified and were not a proper use of deadly force”, Alvarez told reporters.
“I felt compelled in the interest of public safety to announce these state charges today”, she said last Tuesday at a news conference.
“It wasn’t going to be much longer, it really wasn’t”, Alvarez said. I offer no apologies for enlisting the FBI to investigate Laquan’s murder because obviously the Chicago Police Department could not investigate themselves in this case. Van Dyke shot McDonald on October 20, 2014. Van Dyke spent the last week behind bars, including Thanksgiving Day.
Authorities also released the dashcam video November 24. The group has a common court date sometime in December, he said. “But that is unprecedented”.
Faith leaders will hold a prayer vigil Monday night in the memory of McDonald. The video prompted protests in Chicago by activists who say the city tried to cover up the shooting.
Zimmer called Monday a “challenging day”. The protest began with singing and marching around with empty caskets. The demonstrators, led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush, declared that the mayor, police commissioner, and prosecutor must step down.
More participated in a Black Friday march on Michigan Avenue that drew more than 1,000 people downtown to protest the McDonald shooting.
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A 21-year-old black man has made an initial appearance in federal court on allegations that he threatened to kill 16 white male students or staff at the University of Chicago in response to the killing of a black teenager by a white city police officer.
