Prosecutors Move To Revoke Or Increase Van Dyke’s Bail After WBEZ, Trib Interview
Officer Jason Van Dyke is set to go on trial Sept. 5. Prosecutors say he violated an order by talking about the shooting of Laquan McDonald.
Officer Jason Van Dyke is set to go on trial Sept. 5. Prosecutors say he violated an order by talking about the shooting of Laquan McDonald.
The fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald aggravated longstanding tensions between Chicago police and the city’s Black residents. We look at how a troubled police department spun a narrative of the shooting, how that narrative fell apart, and how the city reacted when it did.
The police shooting of Laquan McDonald forces Chicago to prepare for potential riots. We piece together details from McDonald’s too-short life and hear from Officer Jason Van Dyke in his first interview since the shooting.
Lawmakers responded after a WBEZ/BGA investigation found many suburban departments didn’t review police shootings.
The proposal calls for more transparency around police shootings and community input on the department’s use-of-force policy.
A jury awarded the young man’s family $1 million, but they invalidated it. That’s just one of many strange details from this trial.
He came to Chicago when African-Americans couldn’t rent a downtown office. He went on to become a pioneering judge who fought injustice.
Leading black lawmakers in Illinois are vowing a push to mandate procedural reviews of police shootings in Cook County suburbs.
The full county board will vote next month on whether to hold a hearing into how suburbs investigate police shootings
In other states, attorneys general have taken active roles in increasing police accountability. Could Illinois be next?