A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 fatal shooting of a black teenager pleaded not guilty Tuesday.
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Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke pleaded not guilty in the police shooting death of Laquan McDonald.
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That pressure intensified during Emanuel’s holiday vacation to Cuba, which he cut short this week “so that he can continue the ongoing work of restoring accountability and trust in the Chicago Police Department”, a spokeswoman said.
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Meanwhile, Cleveland police and prosecutors faced continued criticism on Tuesday, a day after a grand jury decided not to charge two white police officers in the shooting death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy in 2014 who was playing with a toy gun in a park. Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said she had chose to charge Van Dyke weeks earlier, but had been delaying the announcement while federal authorities completed their investigation.
Police on Saturday fatally shot 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier and a downstairs neighbor, 55-year-old Bettie Jones, as they responded to a domestic disturbance.
Emanuel previously told reporters, “Van Dyke violated both the standards of professionalism that come with being a police officer but also basic moral standards that bind our community together”.
Van Dyke, who has been free since paying the $150,000 required of his $1.5 million bail, was suspended from the police force without pay after he was charged. He was charged hours before video of McDonald’s shooting death went public, sparking weeks of demonstrations and unrest in Chicago. The officer, wearing a dark suit and blue striped tie, appeared in court Tuesday as his lawyer entered the plea on his behalf.
Van Dyke is no longer on the city’s payroll.
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Van Dyke’s attorney, Dan Herbert, said his client had feared for his life and that the video did not provide a complete account of the shooting. Hunter said he thought the trial should be televised in the interest of transparency.
Van Dyke told an investigator that McDonald was “swinging the knife in an aggressive, exaggerated manner” and that McDonald “raised the knife across chest” and pointed it at Van Dyke, according to one police report.
McDonald, 17, was shot 16 times on October 20, 2014. Martin instructed a clerk to run Van Dyke’s name through a program to randomly assign his case to a trial judge. The teenager, armed with a knife, was veering away from officers when Van Dyke opened fire.
In the wake of another police shooting, Mayor Rahm Emanuel called for an immediate review of how the Chicago Police Department trains officers to respond to calls involving people in crisis or with mental health…
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The video sparked nation-wide outrage; protests; the forced resignation of Chicago’s police superintendent; and calls for Chicago’s Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, to resign.
