POLICE BRUTALITY CASES: WALTER SCOTT MURDER & MORE

[HairOfTheDog]

There is some protesting going on in Chicago right now. A LEO has been arrested for murder shortly before a video was released of the shooting. People there have been trying to get the video released for a year. The cop fired once and bought down the kid and then continued to shoot him 15 more times. He has been charged with 1^st degree murder. Crazy weird they choose now to charge the cop given the video has been in their possession for a year.

I'm so disgusted. This police shooting is as fucked up as the shooting of Walter Scott (OP story). Cop shoots man in the back or side as the man is running away and then claims self defense.


First degree murder is an appropriate charge for this completely unjustified fatal shooting by Chicago PD officer Jason Van Dyke (pictured left). Van Dkyke is no rookie; he's been an officer for over a decade.

The fatal victim, Laquan McDonald, 17 (pictured right), was jaywalking and moving AWAY from Van Dyke. Van Dyke shot the teen within 6 seconds of arriving on the scene. After McDonald was slumped motionless on the ground, Van Dyke pumped 15 more bullets into him from his very safe distance.

Van Dyke claims, of fucking course, that he was in fear for his life. What a farce, as the video confirms. Unfortunately, the dash cam that took the video only captures the first shot; it doesn't show Van Dyke shooting McDonald 15 more times as the teen lay still in the street. There's no audio.

McDonald was reportedly on drugs. He had a knife and was trying to break into a car when someone called in a complaint. He was leaving that area when police caught up with him in the street; Van Dyke being one of them.

Hoping Chicago stays peaceful in their protests as we head into Thanksgiving.