Chicago police officer charged with killing black teen to appear in court

A judge Monday set a $1.5 million bond for the officer, who has been charged with first-degree murder. The video shows McDonald walking away from the officer as Van Dyke moved closer before shooting.

Van Dyke, wearing jeans and a blue hoodie with the hood pulled up, passed through a scrum of photographers and reporters without comment.

McDonald had been running from police after a report the teen had been breaking into trucks on a lot near where he was shot.

According to a criminal complaint, Dean, who is black, posted the threat online Saturday, days after prosecutors charged Van Dyke with first-degree murder and after the city released video of the shooting. Van Dyke’s lawyer Dan Herbert, urged the public not to rush to judgment about what the video showed.

The fact that the Black Friday protests were peaceful added another positive aspect to the event we believe has led the media and others to portray this protest positively. Alvarez said last week that the 3-inch blade recovered from the scene had been folded into the handle.

The city lost its court fight to keep the video under wraps when the judge ruled in favor of freelance journalist Brandon Smith, who sued under the state’s open records law. You then see officer Van Dyke pull up along side the parked police SUV jump out of the SUV and shoot Laquan actually sweeping his body around and knocking him to his feet. MORE DASH-CAM VIDEOThe ABC7 I-Team uncovered other dash-cam video of the moments leading up to the shooting, including the camera from Van Dyke’s squad vehicle. Preckwinkle said McCarthy either knew or should have known months ago that the initial story presented in the case was not true and that McDonald did not lunge at police before Van Dyke shot him.

“For the first time I was thinking about people who live in Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan… where they live under constant threats of death and violence”, said the student from China, who planned to spend the day at home and in a campus building that was a five-minute walk away.

But Emanuel’s narrative comes against a backdrop of decades’ worth of Chicago police torture and wrongful conviction cases, corruption, and slapdash, ineffectual oversight practices in shootings and other excessive force actions by officers.

A major Chicago newspaper is calling for the resignation of Chicago Police Supt. McDonald spins around and collapses on the pavement. “Someone walks out of felony bond court that punches a police officer because of a phone call that is made, or because someone felt it was the right thing to do for community peace”, Angelo said.

Earlier in the day, demonstrators showed up at City Hall with coffins.

And why, many wonder, did the mayor persuade the City Council to authorize a $5 million settlement for McDonald’s family, which had not filed a lawsuit.

Protesters have marched on Chicago’s streets since the video’s release.