The footage of Van Dyke, who is white, shooting the black, teenage McDonald, led to protests, the ousting of Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and a civil rights investigation being launched into the police department. John Escalante and the head of Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, Sharon Fairley, to review the department’s crisis intervention and de-escalation policies.
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Jason Van Dyke is “hanging in there” and wants to tell his side of what happened so he’s not seen “as this cold-blooded killer”, defense attorney Dan Herbert said after the court hearing.
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Pressure intensified on the embattled mayor over his lack of urgency after the latest shootings when he initially said he would not cut short his vacation in Cuba.
Reports say that the man soon returned with several others and they began to criticize the Emanuel aide once again.
The Mayor on his return would face renewed protests over police shootings after Bettie Jones, 55, and college student Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were killed early on Saturday.
McDonald was not running towards police as reports initially claimed, in fact, he was walking away from officers when Officer Jason Van Dyke fired his gun 16 times. Police said Jones was killed by accident.
The Chicago Police Department suspended Jason Van Dyke before he was arraigned on the misconduct and first-degree murder charges.
Elsewhere in Chicago, about 20 protesters gathered outside the mayor’s house on Tuesday, according to CBS Chicago.
Antonio LeGrier spoke to Brooke Baldwin about the death of his son Quintonio LeGrier after officers responded to a domestic disturbance.
He was silent as they yelled and called him names.
McDonald was black. Van Dyke is white.
Family members said police were called after LeGrier threatened his father with a metal baseball bat.
Mr. Hunter cited those deaths Tuesday as evidence of a broader problem in the Police Department, and Mr. Herbert said increased news media attention to police shootings “probably will never help my client”. McDonald’s and other high-profile police killings drove hundreds of protesters to block Chicago’s retail district on Black Friday, the U.S.’s post-Thanksgiving sales event. The announcement came weeks after the release of the video of Mr McDonald’s shooting.
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The lawsuit, filed in the Circuit Court of Cook County, disputes the police description of LeGrier as a “combative subject” and insists that LeGrier was unarmed when he was shot down.
