Laquan McDonald, 17, was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer in October 2014.
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Van Dyke is now facing first-degree murder charges for the shooting.
As part of process, Johnson will submit his recommendations to the Chicago Police Board, which will ultimately decide whether to fire the officers.
Two of the 10 have since retired and “there is insufficient evidence to prove those respective allegations” for the tenth officer, Giancamilli said.
Officers attempted to surround Laquan, but he slashed one of the tires of a squad vehicle and began jogging away, according to police.
The police officer’s statements related to the incident violate a rule that prohibits “making a false report, written or oral”, Guglielmi said in a statement.
The inspector general’s report centered on the actions of 10 officers, including the seven whom Johnson says should be dismissed. It showed McDonald walking away from police as he held a knife, not lunging toward officers as police had said.
Questions have remained since McDonald’s death almost two years ago about what discipline could follow, after suggestions that the teenager lunged at police was shown to be untrue by the video footage.
Johnson’s call to fire the officers broadens the political and departmental fallout, which includes pressure on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to provide more transparency and overhaul the police disciplinary system to break down an entrenched “code of silence” among officers and build public trust.
He has pleaded not guilty to six counts of first-degree murder.
It’s reported that Johnson will now turn his focus to the manner in which then-Supt Garry McCarthy and his executive staff dealt with the case and discrepancies between dash cam footage of the incident and the accounts given by the police officers involved.
Police released the explosive police video that documented the shooting previous year.
“First of all, the police superintendent will make that decision, because it’s straightforward”, Emanuel said.
The controversy stirred by the video of Van Dyke shooting McDonald was compounded by the fact that numerous officers at the scene wrote reports that conflicted with the video, suggesting a collaborative effort to justify the shooting.
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I applaud Superintendent Johnson for taking swift and decisive action, pursuant to the Inspector General’s report and the recommendations of IPRA Director Sharon Fairley, to remove from the CPD the officers involved in covering up the horrific murder of Laquan McDonald.
