Another video released Wednesday from a cop vehicle that arrived at the scene after the shooting showed the dying teenager lying in the four-lane highway.
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In this frame from dash-cam video Laquan McDonald falls to the ground after being shot by officer Jason Van Dyke in Chicago, October 20, 2014.
A march protesting the videotaped slaying of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by a Chicago police officer is planned Friday in the city’s busiest shopping district on the busiest shopping day of the year.
Van Dyke fired 16 shots, emptying his gun at the young teen and was preparing to reload.
Van Dyke’s attorney has said the officer feared for his life when he fired at McDonald and that the case should be tried in the courtroom, not in social media or on city streets.
Record show that Officer Jason Van Dyke, 37, denied every allegation made against him over the years, which range from complaints about excessive force to using racial slurs during a search. Strauss said even Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel deserves some blame for delaying the release of the video.
The release of the video itself has been controversial. Emanuel was flanked by a dozen community leaders.
“Investigations of police shootings and misconduct are highly complex matters that carry with them very unique legal issues, that must be fully examined and taken into consideration”, Cook County prosecutor Anita Alvarez said on Tuesday.
Van Dyke was being held in protective custody at a hospital facility away from the general population of Cook County Jail, the county sheriff’s office said.
“This case shows the operation of the code of silence in the Chicago Police Department”, he said.
Jackson and other activists said Thursday that they would announce an emergency summit on police reform in Chicago in the coming days. “If the department did look at these patterns when investigating police abuse, there is a great chance right now that 17-year-old boy would still be alive”.
President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he was “deeply disturbed” by the video footage.
Last week, a court ordered the release of the video.
An autopsy report showed McDonald had the hallucinogenic drug PCP in his system. “I want them to look me in the eye and recognize just because they have a badge it doesn’t mean I’m someone they can treat like dirt”, one protester, Lamon Reccord, 16, told USA Today as he approached the police and dared them to “shoot me 16 times”.
Futterman says seven video files showing seven different angles of the scene were deleted by an officer.
Of those 47 cases, about 23 per cent resulted in a conviction of some kind, says Stinson.
INSIDERCivil-rights lawyers call the death of Chicago teen “police murder”. Don’t resort to violence in Laquan’s name.
Protesters marched north on Michigan Avenue in response to the release of the Laquan McDonald shooting dash cam video release.
In Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri, family appeals for peace were not always heeded.
Community leaders, angered at the latest incident of white policemen killing black men, have backed peaceful protests and are demanding change.
“We feel your pain, but we challenge you to turn your pain into power”.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Chicago Supt.
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Credit ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 with prodding the police to release the video a day earlier than expected.
