Article: The video that will rip Chicago apart — and why you need to see it..
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That prosecutor know what she doing she on some ? ? . gonna be hard to pin 1st degree on him
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It should take about a year to gather all the evidence to charge him I'm thinking -
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/30/jason-van-? -laquan-mcdonald-killing-released-on-bond-chicago-police-officerChicago police officer accused of Laquan McDonald killing released on bond
The Chicago police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a black teenager was released on Monday evening after posting bond.
Officer Jason Van ? , who was shown on local media outlets leaving Cook County jail, had his bond set at $1.5m, and needed to post $150,000 to get out.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/opinion/cover-up-in-chicago.html?_r=0Cover-Up in Chicago
By BERNARD E. HARCOURT
THERE’S been a cover-up in Chicago. The city’s leaders have now brought charges against a police officer, Jason Van ? , for the first-degree murder of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. But for more than a year, Chicago officials delayed the criminal process, and might well have postponed prosecution indefinitely, had it not been for a state court forcing their hand.
They prevented the public from viewing crucial incriminating evidence — first one police car’s dashboard camera video; now, we learn, five such videos in total. And these senior officials turned a blind eye to the fact that 86 minutes of other video surveillance footage of the crime scene was unaccountably missing.
The Cook County prosecutor, Anita Alvarez, must have had probable cause to indict Officer Van ? for the Oct. 20, 2014, shooting death of Mr. McDonald the moment she viewed the police dash-cam video, after her office received it two weeks later. That video, in her own words, was “everything that it has been described to be by the news accounts. It is graphic. It is violent. It is chilling.”
Ms. Alvarez, and other city leaders, surely knew they would have to indict Mr. Van ? for murder as soon as the public saw that footage. “I have absolutely no doubt,” Ms. Alvarez finally said last week, “that this video will tear at the hearts of all Chicagoans.”
But the timing, in late 2014, was not good.
Then up for re-election, the mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, was looking ahead to a contested election on Feb. 24, 2015, which would ultimately result in a runoff election on April 7. In Ferguson, Mo., a grand jury was hearing testimony on the police shooting of Michael Brown. The video of Eric Garner being choked to death during an arrest in New York had gone viral. The Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum across the country.
The video of a police shooting like this in Chicago could have buried Mr. Emanuel’s chances for re-election. And it would likely have ended the career of the police superintendent, Garry F. McCarthy.
And so the wheels of justice virtually ground to a halt. Mayor Emanuel refused to make the dash-cam video public, going to court to prevent its release. The city argued that releasing the video would taint the investigation of the case, but even the attorney general of Illinois urged the city to make it available.
Then the city waited until April 15 — one week after Mr. Emanuel was re-elected — to get final approval of a pre-emptive $5 million settlement with Mr. McDonald’s family, a settlement that had been substantially agreed upon weeks earlier. Still, the city’s lawyers made sure to include a clause that kept the dash-cam video confidential.
Around the time the freelance journalist Brandon Smith filed suit for release of the dash-cam video, on Aug. 5, 2015, the Chicago Police Department told him that it had already received, and rejected, 14 other Freedom of Information Act requests for the evidence. The city spent thousands of dollars in legal expenses to keep the video under wraps. And it would probably have continued to do so, had Judge Franklin Valderrama of the Cook County Circuit Court not ordered its release.
Meanwhile, the state’s prosecutor, Ms. Alvarez, concluded that there had been no evidence of tampering when police officers allegedly erased 86 minutes of video footage from Burger King surveillance cameras close to the location of Mr. McDonald’s shooting by Officer Van ? . The missing footage was from 9:13 to 10:39 p.m. — bracketing the time when Mr. McDonald was shot (around 9:50 p.m.).
City leaders did everything in their power to keep the homicide from the public as long as possible. Indeed, Mr. Van ? was indicted only after the forced release of the videos.
We can surmise that each had particular reasons. Mayor Emanuel was fighting for re-election in a tight race. Superintendent McCarthy wanted to keep his job. Ms. Alvarez needed the good will of the police union for her coming re-election campaign and probably wished to shield the police officers who bring her cases and testify in court.
None of that alters the fact that these actions have impeded the criminal justice system and, in the process, Chicago’s leaders allowed a first-degree murder suspect, now incarcerated pending bail, to remain free for over a year on the city’s payroll.
There is good reason to appoint an independent commission to investigate the conduct of these public servants. But frankly, at this point, who would trust Chicago’s political institutions or criminal justice system?
An investigation would create further delay in justice and distract our attention from the real issues at hand: the senseless death of a 17-year-old, and the systemic problems of excessive police violence and lack of accountability.
Rather than hold hearings, investigate and perhaps prosecute its leaders, the city of Chicago needs to restore trust. These officials no longer have the public’s confidence. They should resign. -
http://chicago.suntimes.com/mary-mitchell/7/71/1141104/mitchell-ronald-johnson-dashcam-videoMitchell: City blocking release of another police dashcam video
Is the city trying to hide another damning video of a Chicago police officer shooting an unarmed black man?
The mother of Ronald Johnson thinks so. The 25-year-old black man was fatally shot by a Chicago cop a week before Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by another officer.
“They are covering up. They have dashcam footage showing how my son was killed,” Dorothy Holmes told me.
The mother said she saw the graphic video and her son was not holding a weapon.
“You see him running with his back turned toward an officer. Then you see another officer get out of his car and just start shooting him. They saw he had nothing in his hand. He was just running. How could you be fearing for your life if the person is running away?” she asked.
A spokesman for the city of Chicago did not respond to questions about the dashcam video.
Holmes filed a federal lawsuit last year and says the Independent Police Review Authority, the agency that is supposed to investigate police-involved shootings, has failed to act.
Her attorney, Michael Oppenheimer, has scheduled a news conference for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in his downtown office to brief media on this case.
According to the attorney, the police officer fired five or six times, striking Johnson twice.
“Police said they found a gun in his right hand after he fell. We believe the police planted the gun. When you are running that fast and get shot, nothing is staying in your hand,” the lawyer said.
The Cook County medical examiner determined Johnson died of multiple gunshot wounds.
After the shooting, Pat Camden, a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police, gave media an account of what happened just as he did after McDonald was killed.
According to Camden, Johnson pointed a gun in the direction of the officers responding to a call of shots fired.
According to Holmes, the video will prove that account to be false.
The city has gotten a “protective order” from a federal judge precluding Holmes’ attorney from releasing the video.
“We filed a Freedom of Information Act request and it was denied. We then filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit,” Oppenheimer said.
A federal judge is expected to rule on the release of this dashcam video on Dec. 10.
Meanwhile, Holmes’ has set up a Facebook page — “Justice 4 RonnieMan” — to rally supporters to this cause.
“I’ve met with people from IPRA, and they said they were going to look into the case. I haven’t heard nothing from nobody,” Holmes said.
“I keep hearing my son’s case is still an ongoing investigation, but how could that be true if you haven’t even talked to the officer and won’t release a dashcam video?”
“The city has sat on this thing for a year,” the lawyer said, “and they are fighting to keep it quiet. I don’t know how many videos are out there, but the city has gone out of its way to hide this again.”
It was a waste of effort for the city to thwart the release of the McDonald dashcam video. It would be plain foolish to use the same tactic in this case.
All Chicagoans should see what is happening with policing in predominantly black and brown neighborhoods. It is the surest way to real reform.
SMDH.. Chicago is a corrupt ass city man.. ? need get together and rise up against this type of ? ... -
I have a bad feeling he wont be found guilty in a jury of white peers. They over charged him like they did George Zimmerman.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/garry-mccarthy-fired-chicago-rahm-emanuelChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Fires City Police Supt. Amid Protests
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has fired city police supt. Garry McCarthy, the Sun-Times reported Tuesday, amid protests over the police killing of a black teenager.
Chicago police released video late last month of a police officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times.
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stringer bell wrote: »http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/garry-mccarthy-fired-chicago-rahm-emanuelChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Fires City Police Supt. Amid Protests
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has fired city police supt. Garry McCarthy, the Sun-Times reported Tuesday, amid protests over the police killing of a black teenager.
Chicago police released video late last month of a police officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times.
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stringer bell wrote: »http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/garry-mccarthy-fired-chicago-rahm-emanuelChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Fires City Police Supt. Amid Protests
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has fired city police supt. Garry McCarthy, the Sun-Times reported Tuesday, amid protests over the police killing of a black teenager.
Chicago police released video late last month of a police officer fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times.
1 down & 2 to go...
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Maybe we'll get another black Top Cop
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Police Chief forced to resign
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stringer bell wrote: »http://chicago.suntimes.com/mary-mitchell/7/71/1141104/mitchell-ronald-johnson-dashcam-videoMitchell: City blocking release of another police dashcam video
Is the city trying to hide another damning video of a Chicago police officer shooting an unarmed black man?
The mother of Ronald Johnson thinks so. The 25-year-old black man was fatally shot by a Chicago cop a week before Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by another officer.
“They are covering up. They have dashcam footage showing how my son was killed,” Dorothy Holmes told me.
The mother said she saw the graphic video and her son was not holding a weapon.
“You see him running with his back turned toward an officer. Then you see another officer get out of his car and just start shooting him. They saw he had nothing in his hand. He was just running. How could you be fearing for your life if the person is running away?” she asked.
A spokesman for the city of Chicago did not respond to questions about the dashcam video.
Holmes filed a federal lawsuit last year and says the Independent Police Review Authority, the agency that is supposed to investigate police-involved shootings, has failed to act.
Her attorney, Michael Oppenheimer, has scheduled a news conference for 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in his downtown office to brief media on this case.
According to the attorney, the police officer fired five or six times, striking Johnson twice.
“Police said they found a gun in his right hand after he fell. We believe the police planted the gun. When you are running that fast and get shot, nothing is staying in your hand,” the lawyer said.
The Cook County medical examiner determined Johnson died of multiple gunshot wounds.
After the shooting, Pat Camden, a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police, gave media an account of what happened just as he did after McDonald was killed.
According to Camden, Johnson pointed a gun in the direction of the officers responding to a call of shots fired.
According to Holmes, the video will prove that account to be false.
The city has gotten a “protective order” from a federal judge precluding Holmes’ attorney from releasing the video.
“We filed a Freedom of Information Act request and it was denied. We then filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit,” Oppenheimer said.
A federal judge is expected to rule on the release of this dashcam video on Dec. 10.
Meanwhile, Holmes’ has set up a Facebook page — “Justice 4 RonnieMan” — to rally supporters to this cause.
“I’ve met with people from IPRA, and they said they were going to look into the case. I haven’t heard nothing from nobody,” Holmes said.
“I keep hearing my son’s case is still an ongoing investigation, but how could that be true if you haven’t even talked to the officer and won’t release a dashcam video?”
“The city has sat on this thing for a year,” the lawyer said, “and they are fighting to keep it quiet. I don’t know how many videos are out there, but the city has gone out of its way to hide this again.”
It was a waste of effort for the city to thwart the release of the McDonald dashcam video. It would be plain foolish to use the same tactic in this case.
All Chicagoans should see what is happening with policing in predominantly black and brown neighborhoods. It is the surest way to real reform.
SMDH.. Chicago is a corrupt ass city man.. ? need get together and rise up against this type of ? ...
I wonder if the police supt Garry McCarthy getting fired has something to do with this also. Video could be just as ? up or worse. -
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-ronald-johnson-chicago-police-shooting-met-20151201-story.htmlDash-cam video of another fatal shooting by Chicago police is sought
The week before Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer in October 2014, the killing of another African-American man by police was also caught on a police dash-cam video.
Like the McDonald case, a police union spokesman showed up to the scene where Ronald Johnson III had been shot through the back on Oct. 12, 2014, and told reporters that the officer had fired in fear for his life.
An official police statement later claimed that Johnson, 25, had turned and pointed a gun at the officers during a foot chase on the South Side and that the weapon was recovered in his hand.
But the dash-cam video — which the city has fought to keep from releasing — shows otherwise, lawyers for Johnson's family allege.
"The city is attempting to cover up another fatal shooting of an unarmed African-American man," attorney Michael Oppenheimer said at a news conference Tuesday, calling for the video's release. "The video clearly shows Robert Johnson was not carrying a weapon. ... The Police Department planted that gun."
The details about Johnson's case have emerged amid continued fallout over the handling of McDonald's shooting. After the shocking dash-cam video was made public last week, daily protests have captured national attention, and increasing political pressure has fallen on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to make wholesale changes to his Police Department.
As Oppenheimer was discussing his case Tuesday, news broke that police Superintendent Garry McCarthy had been fired by Emanuel.
Johnson's mother, Dorothy Holmes, told reporters Tuesday that she wants the video of her son's shooting released because she believes it will clear his name and show that the police "lied on TV" when they said he had a gun. Her son, affectionately called "Ronnieman" by everyone in the neighborhood, had no serious criminal record and left behind five children, she said.
"Even on your saddest days, he'd put a smile on your face," Holmes said with tears in her eyes. "He didn't deserve to be murdered."
Holmes has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit that is pending in federal court. Meanwhile, her attorneys have asked a Cook County judge to order the dash-cam video released under the state's Freedom of Information Act.
Last month, another county judge ordered the video of McDonald's shooting made public over the city's objection. Attorneys for the Law Department argued that the video should be kept under wraps because of pending investigations by the Cook County state's attorney's office and the FBI.
In addition to the video's release, Oppenheimer called for the appointment of a special prosecutor in the Johnson case. He said there have been no indications that either State's Attorney Anita Alvarez or federal investigators are looking into it.
A Law Department spokesman had no immediate comment, and a spokeswoman for Alvarez could not immediately be reached.
On the night he was killed, Johnson was riding in a car with friends when it was pulled over by police at 53rd Street and South King Drive. Johnson tried to run and was pursued by officers on foot, none of whom opened fire, Oppenheimer said.
During the chase, Officer George Hernandez, a tactical officer in the Grand Crossing District, pulled up in an unmarked squad car and jumped out with his gun drawn. Within two seconds, he fired at Johnson as he was still running away, striking him in the back of the knee and again in the back shoulder, where the bullet severed Johnson's jugular vein and exited his eye socket, Oppenheimer said.
At the scene that night, Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Pat Camden said Hernandez opened fire in fear for his life. A statement released by the police later that day said Johnson had "pointed his weapon in the direction of the pursuing officers."
But Oppenheimer said the dash-cam footage from another squad car clearly shows Johnson running with nothing in his hands. The video also proves he never turned around before the shots knocked him down, he said.
Oppenheimer said he didn't know why Johnson, who had a minor criminal record but nothing violent in his past, would have run from the police.
"What I do know is that young black men sometimes run from the police because they are afraid," he said. "And in this case, it turned out to be a prophecy because the police killed him." -
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Camera Caught Police Deleting Video of the Murder of Laquan McDonald
Unable to clearly explain why the 86 minutes disappeared, Police Supt. Garry McCarthy blamed the missing files on technical difficulties.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCBb8TU5GIM
Chicago, IL — Accused of deleting the surveillance video of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald’s death, several officers appeared in recently released screenshots tampering with Burger King’s computers before the footage mysteriously disappeared. Although 86 minutes of the surveillance video have gone missing, including the moment that McDonald was gunned down, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez claims no one tampered with the footage.
Surrounded by officers and suspected of breaking into cars on October 20, 2014, Laquan McDonald, 17, was attempting to walk away from a group of Chicago cops when Officer Jason Van ? exited his patrol car. According to initial reports, McDonald was armed with a knife and lunged at Officer Van ? . Fearing for his life and the lives of his fellow officers, Van ? shot the teen in the chest out of self-defense.
But according to witness statements and police dashcam video, McDonald was walking away when Van ? opened fire. After McDonald had collapsed to the ground in a near-fetal position, Van ? continued firing his weapon until emptying his clip. As Van ? began reloading his gun, a fellow officer had to order him to cease firing at the dying teen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpJvvCKHIZ8
McDonald’s autopsy revealed that Van ? shot him 16 times, including two bullets in the back, seven in his arms, two in his right leg, once on each side of his chest, and single bullets wounds to his right hand, scalp, and neck. Nine of the 16 entrance wounds had a downward trajectory. None of the five other officers at the scene fired their weapons.
Before McDonald’s family could even file a lawsuit, the city gave them a $5 million settlement on the condition that the family agreed not to publicly release the dashcam footage of the teen’s death. After suppressing the video for 13 months, the city received a court order to release the footage. The city released the dashcam video last week, which clearly shows McDonald did not lunge at the officers before the fatal shooting.
In May, Burger King district manager Jay Darshane accused officers of deleting the security footage after spending over three hours in the fast food restaurant on the night of the shooting. According to Darshane, the video equipment was working properly, but 86 minutes of footage, from 9:13 p.m. to 10:39 p.m., disappeared after the officers left.
Charged with first-degree murder, Van ? fired his first shot at 9:57 p.m. When asked if he was certain that the officers deleted the footage of the killing, Darshane answered, “Yes.”
“We had no idea they were going to sit there and delete files,” Darshane said. “I mean we were just trying to help the police officers.”
Unable to clearly explain why the 86 minutes disappeared, Police Supt. Garry McCarthy blamed the missing files on technical difficulties. At a press conference last week, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez asserted that no one had tampered with the Burger King surveillance video. When asked who conducted the forensic testing, Alvarez did not appear to know the answer.
Alvarez responded, “That’s all I’m going to say on this.”
On Monday, NBC5 obtained screenshots taken from a surveillance video inside Burger King on the night of McDonald’s death. The photos appear to show officers using the computer console that recorded the fatal shooting. Although the police department and state’s attorney claim the officers did not delete those 86 missing minutes, remember that this information is coming from the same cops who initially lied about the shooting and the same officials who suppressed the police dashcam video for 13 months. -
i am still wondering how he go shot in the back....
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I aint c u
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I have no idea what u look like my ? lol
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Lol I was honestly ducking the cameras luke I always do..but yea that s when they when they were turning up to Hot ?
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Elzo69Renaissance wrote: »Lol I was honestly ducking the cameras luke I always do..but yea that s when they when they were turning up to Hot ?
Why though? I want to have an informed opinion of why they were dancing at that time. -
@obnoxiouslyfresh why you laughing?
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