Chicago police officer charged with murder posts $1.5M bond

The Chicago police officer charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Laquan McDonald is out of jail after posting a $1.5 million bond, according to multiple reports.

November 24: Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez announces she is charging Van Dyke with first-degree murder. In case you were checked out over the long weekend, here are 10 things you should know about the case. The footage then showed the teenager being shot, falling to the ground, and then his body going to be riddled with bullets as he lay on the floor.

Herbert said Van Dyke is prepared to defend himself.

Cornell William Brooks, the president and chief executive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), was briefly arrested Monday while protesting the police killing of 17-year-old Laquan Mcdonald. Angelo said that he is concerned not only for Van Dyke’s safety but for the safety of all uniformed police officers in the city. The arrest came just one day before a court-ordered deadline for the city to release a dashcam footage of the incident.

Also Wednesday, a Cook County judge dismissed a charge against a protester accused of hitting a police officer in the hours after the video was made public. It gets worse, though.

An online threat against the University of Chicago that led the school to cancel all activities Monday appears to have been motivated by the shooting of a black teenager by a Chicago officer in 2014, federal authorities said.

WBEZ reported in April that Chicago’s city council approved a million settlement with McDonald’s family, which had not filed a lawsuit.

A University of IL at Chicago spokeswoman confirmed that Dean is a freshman majoring in electrical engineering.

Clergy members say this will not be the first and last demonstration they hold, but nothing is officially planned yet.

The mayor’s office said in a Tuesday news release that former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who is a Chicago native, will be a senior adviser for the panel.

“Fueling the firestorm is the fact that Emanuel fought for the better part of a year not to release the police dashboard camera video of the shooting”.

The Chicago Police Department is facing a historic crisis of mistrust, driven by stubbornly high rates of gun violence, recent revelations that officers are nearly never disciplined for alleged misconduct, and the department’s questionable handling of two inexcusable fatal shootings by officers.

The group held banners showing photos of other black people fatally shot by police in Chicago and elsewhere. “I will execute aproximately (sic) 16 white male students and or staff, which is the same number of time (sic) Mcdonald (sic) was killed”, the post read.