Chicago cop charged with murder of teen is released on bail

To Kalven, the most important issue here is not just the shooting but how governmental institutions – from the police to the mayor’s office – responded to it, he says. Prosecutors asked on Monday that the previous ruling stand, but Van Dyke’s lawyer, Daniel Herbert, said his client posed no flight risk. As a result, the state’s attorney is now being pressured to resign.

To read the full editorial, go here. I offer no apologies for enlisting the FBI to investigate Laquan’s murder because obviously the Chicago Police Department could not investigate themselves in this case.

Now comes the hard part for prosecutors – winning a conviction against Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke. At a press conference after Van Dyke was charged, State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez noted that none of the other officers at the scene fired a shot at McDonald, and that the teen was moving away from officers when Van Dyke opened fire from 10 feet away.

In the latest racially charged incident to trouble the USA city in recent weeks, Dean allegedly admitted to posting the threat when federal agents arrived at his Chicago home. “But that is unprecedented”.

Like the protesters filling Michigan Avenue on Black Friday, the Editorial Board believes the Chicago Police Department needs to be
investigated at the very least.

For days, many in the streets have hinted they’re ready to escalate these protests. Within moments, officers rushed in and preventing him from doing so. Brown eventually walked away and was not arrested.

Van Dyke kept his head down and said nothing as made his way through the crush of reporters and photographers who staked out the jail exit. The protest began with singing and marching around with empty caskets. He didn’t know the specifics of the University of Chicago case but said being too quick to shut down a university can play into the hands of those making threats.

Another set of figures published by the Chicago Tribune last month showed that between January 1 and December 2014, the city recorded 2,587 shooting victims, while as at November 28 this year, the number of such victims was 2,712.

It is not as if Chicago is a murder-free city that one death will compel people to take to the streets in protests. PHOTOS: PROTESTERS MARCH TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY AFTER VIDEO RELEASEProtestors call the delay in charges against Van Dyke a police cover-up. Garry McCarthy; others want Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step down.

The Chicago Police Department requires fundamental reform.

The University of Chicago may have felt it had no choice but to take the extreme step of closing for an entire day after an online threat against whites on campus that authorities say was motived by the police shooting of a black teenager, security experts said.