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Protesters in the USA city of Chicago continue to call for justice for an African-American teenager shot 16 times by a white police officer a year ago, demanding the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Emanuel on Saturday released an opinion piece he wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune. He said the city was following a longstanding practice of releasing such material only after an investigation was complete. Both the former police superintendent and the Cook...
The sheriff’s department released the calls on Sunday in addition to the security video showing Robertson stretched on the ground with a gun in his hand.
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Last month, the same state attorney charged another Chicago officer, Jason Van Dyke, with first-degree murder for killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald by shooting him 16 times.
While investigators say the man, 28-year-old Nicholas Robertson, was armed, and did not respond to requests to drop his weapon, the video, captured across the street from the scene around 11 a.m. on Saturday, appears to show otherwise.