Chicago Police Really Didn’t Want To Release Video Of A Cop Shooting Laquan McDonald 16 Times
Dec. 8, 2014
Journalist Jamie Kalven and Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago Law School professor, recover a matter job on Chicago military to recover a dashcam video of a incident. Futterman and Kalven had been alerted to a video’s existence by a whistleblower, who told them the video was horrific.
February 2015
Kalven obtains a duplicate of McDonald’s final autopsy report, that says that McDonald was shot 16 times.
March 2015
The Chicago Tribune files 3 apart Freedom of Information Act requests to Chicago’s law department, a military dialect and a Independent Police Review Authority Board. All 3 requests are denied.
April 2015
The Chicago City Council approves a $5 million allotment with McDonald’s family before they even record a lawsuit. Aldermen are not shown a video of a occurrence before commendatory a settlement, even yet city Corporation Counsel Stephen Patton pronounced a footage shabby a city’s preference to settle before a lawsuit.
Officials also endorse that a FBI and a U.S. Attorney for a Northern District of Illinois are conducting a rapist examine into Van Dyke.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) says that a military and FBI are self-denial a video while they control an investigation, and city officials contend releasing it would jeopardise a satisfactory trial.