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Laquan Mcdonald Murder Case

Chicago cop charged with murder for shooting black teen 16 times

Officer Jason Van Dyke, who is white, was charged with first-degree murder in the 2014 shooting death of a black youth, 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. The charge comes in advance of the release of a dashcam video that showed Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times. Ref. USAToday

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'Killer' cop in for 'brutal' weekend

LIFE is about to get ugly for the white officer charged with black teen Laquan McDonald's murder as he braces for his first weekend in jail. Ref. Source 2g

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A judge set bail at $1.5 million for the Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder for fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Officer Jason Van Dyke has been in jail since Tuesday after prosecutors charged him with the Oct. 20, 2014, shooting of McDonald. Ref. USAToday

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Chicago mayor fires police chief amid protests over police shooting

Facing growing anger over his administration's handling of the release of a video showing a white Chicago Police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has fired Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy. Ref. USAToday

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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he's sorry for circumstances surrounding Laquan McDonald's death, including the fact that it took 13 months before police dashboard camera video of the 17-year-old's shooting was released and the officer who killed him was charged.

During a special City Council meeting he convened, Emanuel said that officials, police and citizens of his city "Need a painful and honest reckoning in what went wrong" surrounding the death of McDonald and other instances in which police officers have allegedly used excessive force.

"I own it," the mayor said. "I take responsibility for what happened, because it happened on my watch." Ref. CNN

Laquan Mcdonald Murder Case

Witnesses to the police killing of Laquan McDonald were questioned for hours, threatened by officers and ordered to change their accounts to match the official Chicago police version of the shooting, attorneys for the teen's estate say.

The allegations are contained in more than 3,000 pages of recently released documents related to the case. The attorneys also allege that officers up the chain of command fabricated witness accounts to support officers at the scene who described the October 2014 shooting as justified. Ref. CNN

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Officials have recommended that seven Chicago police officers be fired for their actions in the 2014 shooting death of teenager Laquan McDonald.

The recommendations came from the city's Office of the Inspector General.

Dashcam video of the fatal shooting contradicted nearly everything police said happened the night McDonald died.

It showed McDonald veering away from police as he held a knife, not lunging toward officers as police had said.

The video also appears to show McDonald's body getting hit by bullets even after he was on the ground. Ref. CNN.

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3 current or former Chicago cops indicted on charges tied to investigation of Laquan McDonald. A Cook County Special Grand Jury filed the charges against Detective David March and patrol officers Joseph Walsh and Thomas Gaffney for actions they took in the aftermath the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, whose 2014 controversial shooting death led to first-degree murder charges against officer Jason Van Dyke. Ref. USAToday.