Bring Police Shootings into the Light of Justice
By now I guess that just about everyone has seen the video of a police officer shooting to death a black teenager on the streets of Chicago. The video is very difficult to watch. According to reports, 17 year old Laquan McDonald, was shot 16 times in 15 seconds. You can see on the video that the first two shots knocked him to the pavement and then remaining 14 rounds were apparently pumped into his prone body.
If you have not yet seen the video, you can find it here on the Time website: Video of Chicago Police Shooting Released (Warning, it is very graphic.)
After watching the video several times I concluded that the police officer had no logical reason to shoot the kid though he was high on drugs and had a three inch knife in his hand. At the time the first shots were fired by Officer Jason Van Dyke, the police had Laquan surrounded and as he was waking past the police cruiser he veered away, obviously trying to avoid the police officers who had just exited the car and drawn their weapons.
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