It’s unclear what will happen next. The FBI and Justice Department are also pursuing their own investigations of McDonald’s death. “This task force the mayor appointed today; he appointed those folks, not the community”, Boykin said.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel made a bold yet belated move when he fired his embattled police superintendent in the wake of a national uproar surrounding the release of a chilling video that captured the police killing of a teen-a ward of the city of Chicago.
Megyn Kelly strongly implied that a politically motivated cover-up surrounds the fatal shooting of teenager Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer who now faces a first-degree murder charge. In footage that was captured after the gap, a police officer in a bulletproof vest is seen sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor in the back of the restaurant. That police video clearly shows the 17-year-old McDonald walking away from police, not lurching towards officers.
Johnson, 25, was shot and killed by an officer in October 2014. He was supposed to write a “general offense case report”, with a narrative of the event and basic information about the people involved, but instead used the narrative from the detectives’ report without attributing it to them, he said in his deposition.
In a phone interview Tuesday evening, Dean Angelo Sr., president of the Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7, agreed that McDonald did not appear to lunge. Van Dyke shot him 16 times.
Activists and protesters have stormed the streets in Chicago demanding that Emanuel resign.
The city said in a statement earlier this week that it was reconsidering its stance on the Johnson video in light of being forced to release the police dashcam video of the McDonald case.
“I’m responsible”, Mr. Emanuel said of the need for change at the Police Department.
Oppenheimer said the dashcam video will show that it took Hernandez “two seconds” to decide to shoot. After the release of the video, social tension has flared up in Chicago.
Davis, speaking with the group of retired African American police officers, many of whom worked in the department for decades, warned that there have been other shootings in the city “worse than the shooting of Laquan”. What, if anything, did McDonald say to them? “All they’ve done is try to keep this quiet”.
Hernandez pulled up on the pursuit of Johnson in an unmarked squad auto.
“It’s important to let the federal investigation play out”.
“It’s a red flag”, he said.
“I think he tried really hard to answer all the questions, but I think he was hiding behind this investigation”. He says it will prove Johnson wasn’t armed, and that’s something his mother adamantly wants the public to know.
Jay Darshane told reporters that several police officers entered his restaurant and viewed surveillance video. A district manager for the restaurant chain has said police visited shortly after the shooting and were given access to the surveillance equipment. He said the deleted portions included the time frame when McDonald would have been shot. Alvarez, they maintained, has a conflict of interest and can’t be trusted to prosecute a case she took more than a year to indict.
Mr. Van Dyke is now being charged with murder. Van Dyke begins firing.
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan are among those calling for an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to determine whether the police department’s practices violate federal and constitutional law.
