3 Chicago officers indicted in Laquan McDonald case

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/3-chicago-police-officers-indicted-in-laquan-mcdonald-case/2017/06/27/ee4c8bc6-5b97-11e7-aa69-3964a7d55207_story.html

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3 Chicago police officers indicted in Laquan McDonald case
By Michael Tarm and Don Babwin?|?AP June 27 at 9:00 PM
CHICAGO — Three Chicago police officers were indicted Tuesday on felony charges that they conspired to cover up the actions of a white police officer who shot and killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, and that the officers lied when they said the black teenager “aggressively” swung a knife at them and tried to get up from the ground still armed after he was shot.

The indictment alleges that one current and two former officers lied about the events of Oct. 20, 2014, when Officer Jason Van Dyke shot the teenager 16 times.

The officers’ narratives contradict what can be seen on police dashcam video, in which the teenager spins after he was shot and falls to the ground — seemingly incapacitated — as the officer continues to fire shot after shot into his body. The indictment further alleges that officers lied when they said McDonald ignored Van Dyke’s verbal commands and that one of the officers signed off on a report that claimed the other two officers were, in fact, victims of an attack by McDonald.

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1. Finally, the Code of Silence is cracked

This is a BFD, and I hope they are found guilty at trial. This is the first big step in reforming the CPD, because if these lies that protect rogue cops are found criminal, the whole whole ethos of the department falls apart, and things will change. I'm very grateful to the special prosecutor and the grand jury.