IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS
COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CRIMINAL DIVISION

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, 

Plaintiff, Gen. No. 17 CR 4286
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JASON VAN DYKE, 

Defendant. I:

NOTICE OF FILING I .I.I-. 

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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the undersigned has on September 10, 2018, cadSedto be f1 in

the Of?ce of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, a copy of the foregoing Defendant Jason
Van Dyke?s Supplement to Previously Filed Motions for a Change of Place of Trial and to Strike
Jury Panel, in the above-captioned case and hereby serve you with copy of the same.

  

 

PROOF OF SERVICE

The undersigned hereby certi?es that he served a true and correct copy of the above and
foregoing Defendant Jason Van Dyke?s Supplement to Previously Filed Motions for a Change of

Place of Trial and to Strike Jury Panel, on September 10, 2018:

Joseph McMahon
Route 38, Suite 100
St. Charles, IL 60175
jm@co.kane.il.us

 

 

Daniel Q. Herbert

The Herbert Law Firm 

206 S. Jefferson, Suite 100 
Chicago, IL 60661

. .-- IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, TIJLINOIS
COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CRIMINAL DIVISION

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS,

Plaintiff,

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JASON VAN DYKE,

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Defendant.



DEFENDANT JASON VAN 

SUPPLEMENT TO PREVIOUSLY FILED MOTIONS OR A CHANGE OF PLACE OF
TRIAL AND TO JURY PANEL

NOW COMES the Defendant, Jason Van Dyilce, by and through his attorneys, The
Herbert Law Firm, respectfully moves to supplement his previous ?lings for a change of place of
trial and to strike the current juror panel because of prejudice. In support thereof, Mr. Van Dyke
states as follows:

On September 5, 2018, approximately 200 jurors entered the Leighton Criminal
Courthouse Via the parking garage east of the courthouse. The path to the courthouse was
surrounded by barricades on either side of the walkway in an effort to control hundreds of

protesters who had gathered to protest the killing of Laquan McDonald. The protestors held

signs with Jason Van Dyke?s picture with the words, ?guilty of racist murder? and ?convict Jason

Van Dylre? 

racist murderer and he must be convicted of murder. It 

have not recognized the protests

received si

0 name a couple. The common theme of the protest was that Jason Van Dyke was a

as not possible for any single juror to -

and seen and heard the calls for Van Dyke?s guilt. The protests

gni?cant media coverage which paints a picture of the violent and prejudicial tone

expressed therein.

6

I Exhibit is a news story publishe

Exhibit A represents an article published in the Chicago Tribune by the reporter who has
been hardly critical during his coverage of this case. Even this reporter, who is obviously

biased against Van Dyke, recognized the highly in?ammatory prejudicial effect of the

gauntlet of protesters in which the jurors were exposed to on the ?rst day of jury

selection.

Exhibit represents the latest
pool was forced to walk through the gauntlet of pro
violence towards Mr. Van Dyke and the neighborho

?nding.
Exhibit documents the violent nature of the protests and contains video of the

protesters.
Exhibit is a Chicago Tribune story
pool was forced to walk past. It contai
prove the demonstrations called for a ?nding of nothing 3
murderer Jason Van Dyke.? 
Exhibit is another article published in
nature of the protests.

Workers on the day of the protests. The

Exhibit is an article published by Socialist
article highlights not only the violent protests that took place the day the jurors arrived

for jury duty, but also documents many of the violent protests that have taken place

throughout this case.

Exhibit represents a news story
documents the violent protests.
Exhibit is another article published on the day of the protests.

Exhibit I is a news story published by Fox 32 Chicago which documents the gauntlet the
jurors were forced to walk through which clearly prejudiced the panel. -

Exhibit is an article published by PBS documenting the protests.
by WBBM news radio which documents the violent

in a series of social media posts discovered after the jury
testers. It cites numerous threats of

ad should there be a not guilty

which documents the protests in which the jury
ns telling pictures and video of the protests which
bout of guilty for the ?racist

the Tribune noting the violent and prejudicial

that was aired on ABC 7 Chicago which also

protest.
Exhibit is another news story sent

on the ?rst day of jury selection. .
Exhibit is a news story published in the national neWSpap er USA Today which

demonstrates the violent protests on the ?rst day of jury selection.
Exhibit is a another news story published in the national publication which also
documents the violence and protests the jurors were exposed to on the ?rst day of jury

through social media depicting the violent protests

selection. The article also, recaps much of the false and in?ammatory news coverage of

Jason Van Dyke throughout the course of these proceedings.
9 Exhibit 0 is another news story published nationally on FOX newscom
the violent nature of the protests. . 
8 Exhibit is an article published in the Chicago Tribune the day after the violent
rotesters. The headline of the article identi?es a protester who was quoted as saying that
the city will shut down if the racist murderer Jason Van Dyke does not go to jail. This
message was the primary theme of the protesters on the day in which the potential jurors

arrived.
6 Exhibit is the social media post of the in?uential Chicago rapper Chance the rapper.
that it must convict Jason Van Dyke. The responses to

His tweet encourages everyon
this tweet include comments calling for Van Dylte to rot in prison.

which documents

In the instant case, the defendant has shown a clear, pervasive. in?ammatory and prejudicial

coverage of his case by local media. Despite the valiant efforts of this Court to control the

atmosphere and protect the rights of Mr. Van Dyke; the process has failed and there is no way to

ensure a fair trial in Cook County. The examples listed in this motion, and the other?motions, are

but a very, very, small sampling of stories and bylines incessantly reported since the case's

inception. It is dif?cult to even keep track of the amount of prejudicial and inadmissible evidence

which has been aired out in the public arena. The effects of the in?ammatory and nega 've aspect

of the media coverage in this case is best witnessed in the violent and harassing protests which

have dogged the defendant and his family for years now. The amount of distracting and

irrelevant information which is also reported ?nther distorts the public's perception of this case.

Making matters worse, the advent of the internet and its potential for interactive commanication

with the public has catapulted already negative and pervasive coverage to an entirely new level.

In fact, few would disagree that Mr. Van Dyke?s case may be the most publicized coverage of a

criminal casein the history of our State. The~protests which occurred on September 5, 2018, to

which the jurors were fOrced to endure, should be enough to convince any reasonable mind that

Mr. Van Dyke cannot get a fair trial here. The Un'tes States Supreme Court has held that it is

impossible to receive a fair trial when the atmosphere surrounding the trial has become ?circus

like.? Here, the atmosphere is worse. It is more ?carnival? than ?circus.?

The prejudice on September 5, 2018 cannot be ignored, nor can it be cured by remedies such

as voir dire as the prosecution has argued in this case. Throughout these proceedings, Mr. Van

Dylce has demonstrated how the inflammatory atmosphere surrounding his trial will prevent his

ability ?om receiving a fair trial. A central concern which has been expressed throughout the

pretrial proceedings is that a juror from Cook County will be paralyzed by fear to deliver a

here It 15 abundantly clear that the will riot if Van Dyke is

verdict other than guilty

nit knowing that they must return to 

not found guilty. It is impossible that a juror will vote to acqui

their neighborhoods which have promised violence in the event of a not guilty verdict. The

barricades present during the protests only reinforced the fear that jurors will experience in this

case. The barricades were undoubtedly seen as a way to protect the jurors from the violence and

threats by the protesters. These jurors understand that when they return borne a?er a verdict there

will not be barricades in front of their homes. There will not be dozens of armed law

enforcement officers present. They will be alone, vulnerable and no doubt terrified.

W. Van Dyke is entitled to a jury that can deliberate in a community and render a verdict

freely without undue pressure from outside in?uences. These simple rights are the bedrock of the

American criminal justice system; the presumption of innocence and the right to a trial by an

impartial jury are sanctified in our criminal justice system. ?No principle is more firmly

established in our system of criminal justice than the presumption of innocence.? Kentacig/

v. Wharton, 444 US. 786, 790 (1979) (Stewart, J. dissenting). ?The principle that there is a

presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and

ion of the administration of our criminal law?

elementary, and its enforcement lies at the foundat

Co?in v. United States, 156 U.S. 432, 453 (1895) abrogated on other grounds. The United States

Supreme Court in Bell v. Wob?ish, 441 U.S. 520 (1979) stated:

ce is a doctrine that allocates the burden of proof in
serve as an admonishment to the jury to judge an
accuser?s guilt or innocence solely on the evidence adduced at trial and not on the
basis of suspicions that may arise from the fact of his arrest, indictment, or
custody, or from other matters not introduced as proof at trial.

The presumption of innocen
criminal trials; it also may

Id. at 533.

The sixth amendment to the United States Constitution provides: all criminal

prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury.?

U.S. Cost. Amend. VI. In the case of Duncan v. Louisiana, 391 U.S. 145 (1968), the United

States Supreme Court found that the jury trial guarantees of the sixth amendment are

fundamental rights made applicable to defendants in criminal cases in state courts via the due

process clause of the fourteenth amendment. Id. at 149. The Court noted that the framers of the

Constitution sought to prevent governmental oppression by placing a lay jury as a buffer between

the defendant and the state. This buffer acts as an "inestimable safeguard against the corrupt or

overzealous prosecutor and against the compliant, biased or eccentric judge.? Id. at 156.
However, these elementary rights for determining guilt are inexorably lacking if the jury

which is tasked with rendering judgment against a criminal defendant comes with its mind

indelibly tainted against him. Fallible men and women cannot reach a disinterested verdict based

solely on What is presented at trial, when, such as here, their minds have been inundated for years

with prejudicial publicity, devised to establish the guilt of the accused and resulting in a

presumption of guilt.

 A Presumption of Prejudice/Measures is insuf?cient.

Although in ordinary circumstances voir dire may be adequate to ensure that an impartial

jury is selected despite pretrial publicity, there are circumstances in which ?inflammatory,

prejudicial pretrial publicity so pervades or saturates the community as to render Virtually

impossible a fair trial by an impartial jury drawn from that community.? Rideau. v.

Louisiana, 373 US. 723, 727 (1963)). In such circumstances, the Supreme Court has ?held that

adverse pretrial publicity can create such a presumption of prejudice in a community that the

jurors' claims that they can be impartial should not be believed.? Patton v. 07.11771: 467 U.S. 1025,

. 1031 (1984). Once damaging pretrial publicity irnbeds itself in the minds of the public, the trial

becomes nothing more than a'hollow formality. See McDonoagh v. Power Equip, Inc, 464 US.

548, 558 (Blaclunun, J., concurring) bias of a juror will rarely be admitted by the juror

himself, ?partly because the juror may have an interest in concealing his own bias and partly

because the juror may be unaware of it? (quoting Smith 1). Phillips, 455 US. 209, 221-22

(O?Connor, J. concurring?. When the community from which jurors are drawn is suf?ciently

poisoned either by adverse publicity or by the effects of the very events at issue, or both, a

presumption of prejudice among potential jurors arises that requires a change of venue. In those

circumstances, voir dire cannot perform its usual of securing a fair and impartial jury.

See Mu?Min v. Virginia, 500 US. 415, 429?30 (1991); Patton 12. Forum, 467 US. 1025, 1031?33,

1040 (1934); Murphy v. Florida,_42l Us. 794, 799 (1975); Sheppard v. .Matweil, 3'34 us. 333,

362-63 (1966); Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532, 55061 (1965); Rideau v. Louisiana, 373 US 723,

726-27 (1963); Irvin v. Dewar, 366 us. 717, 725?28 (1961).

In Irvin, defendant was charged with six murders in a small Indiana town, and police

press releases announcing Irvin's confession were ?intensively publicized.? 366 US. at 71920.

Although each juror gave assurances of fairness to the trial court in voir dire, the Court examined

the ?popular news media? surrounding the trial and the four-week, 2,73 8?page voir dire record to

test whether these assurances were legally adequate. Id. at 720, 724?28. The Court concluded

they were not. The ?build-up of prejudice? in the media was ?clear and convincing?; the jury

pool was overrun with scores of jurors with? disqualifying biases; and eight seated jurors came to

voir dire believing Irvin was guilty. Id. at 725 ?27. Even though these jurors later promised they

could be fair, the Court held their statements could not be believed under the circumstances. Id.

at 727.

While Irvin may be understood as a case addressing the actual prejudices of a particular

jury, the Court generalized the presumed prejudice rule in a trilogy of cases starting udth?z?deau.

In that case, the Court held that ?only a change of venue was constitutionally suf?cient? to

ensure ?an impartial jury,? because the jurors? community ?had been exposed repeatedly and in

depth to the prejudicial pretrial publicity there involved.? Groppz' v. Wisconsin, 400 US. 505,

510~11 (1971) (describing Rideau). The defendant in Rideau gave a filmed confession to

murder, which was broadcast on local television stations. 373 US. at 723 "25. The Supreme

Court presumed potential jurors were prejudiced by the publicity, and therefore reversed the

convictions ?without pausing to examine a particularized transcript of the voir dire to see

whether it actually produced impartial jurors. Id. at 727 . The Court did so even though voir dire
showed that only three of the 12 jurors had seen the broadcast; none of the three ?testi?ed to

holding opinions of [defendant's] guil and all three testi?ed they could ?give the defendant the

presumption of innocence? and ?base their decision solely on the evidence.? Id. at 73162

(Clark, J., dissenting). The Court explained: ?Any subsequent court proceedings in a community

so pervasively exposed to such a spectacle could be but a hollow formality.? Id. at 726. Here,

 there has been'extensive media coverage concerning false, misleading and inadmissible

evidence, including the Garrity protected statements of Mr. Van Dykep 

Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532 (1965), involving a defendant charged with ?nancial frauds,

attracted intense mediascrutiny: press coverage spanned eleven volumes of the court record; a

and press coverage

disruptive televised pretrial hearing was seen by much of the venire;

continued during trial. Id. at 53 4~38, The Court reversed the convictions. Although ?there was

nothing so dramatic as the home~viewed confession? in Rideaa, the Court explained, the jury

pool had with publicity about the case and Estes had been subjected to

?minute electronic scrutiny.? Id. at 538. The State argued Estes could point to no ?isolatable

prejudice? among jurors or at trial, and that any prejudice was ?hypothetical.? Id. at 541?42. The

Court disagreed, holding that the case was one ?in which a showing of actual prejudice is not a .

prerequisite to reversal.? Id. at 542.

In Sheppard v. Maxwell, 384 U.S. 333 (1966), the Cleveland media launched ?editorial

artillery? against a doctor accused of murdering his wife. Id. at 335?42. At trial, reporters were

nterfere with Sheppard?s defense; the media wrote articles

were published. Id.

allowed to sit inside the bar and i

critical of his defense to which jurors were exposed; and the jurors? identities

at 34249. The Supreme Court held that such circumstances required reversal, again without

regard to proof of actual juror prejudice: ?Since the state trial judge did not fulfill his duty to

protect Sheppard from the inherently prejudicial publicity which saturated the community and to

control disruptive in?uences in the courtroom,? id. at 363 (emphasis added), the Court granted

Sheppard?s habeas petition udthout inquiring into any individual jurcr's bias, and despite juror

increased in Mr. Van

assurances of impartiality. Id. at 35162. The media intensity has only

Dyke?s case; There is no doubt that hundreds of sources will report on every detail of the trial

each and every day.



Subsequent decisions have consistently read the foregoing precedents as establishing a

per se rule of transfer or reversal Where the community passion or trial taint is severe enough to

warrant a presumption of juror prejudice. In Vasquez 12. Hillary, 474 US. 254 (1986) the United

States Supreme Court con?rmed that exposure to prejudicial publicity ?require[s] reversal of the

conviction because the effect of the violation cannot be ascertained.? Id. at 263;. see also Mu ?Mtn

v. Virginia, 500 US. 414, 429 (1991) (when a ?presumption of prejudice in a community? arises

from the ?wave of public passion? smrounding events of trial, ?the jurors? claims that they can be

impartial should not be believed?); Patron v. Yoam?, 467 US. 1025, 1031, 103 8 n.13 (1984)

(While voir dire ?usually identi?es bias,? in certain situations it is ?inadequate,? because

prejudice can be such that ?jurors' claims that they can be impartial should not be believed?).

Cases holding that the presumption of prejudice cannot be rebutted through voir dire rests

on the premise that ?the community and media reaction? is ?so hostile and so pervasive as to

make it apparent that even the most careful votr dire process would be unable to assure an

impartial jury.? Flamer v. Delaware, 68 F.3d 736, 754 (3d Cir. 1995) (Alito, J.) (en banc)
(quotation omitted). That is, when ?adverse pretrial publicity? combines with the ?added

pressure? of a ?huge wave of .L public passion? to create an ?atmosphere corruptive of the trial

process,? this Court ?will presume a fair trial could not be held, nor an impartial jury

assembled.? MaMin, 500 US. at 443?50 (Kennedy, J., dissenting).

The Court?s precedents recognize several reasons why even a careful voir dire cannot

ensure an impartial jury when the community is so thoroughly soaked with hostility and

prejudicial publicity. First, potential jurors in such circumstances can become infused with biases

they cannot recognize or will not disclose. See Estes, 381 US. at 545; Irvin, 366 US. at 727~28.

A ?juror may have an interest in concealing his own bias,? or ?may be unaware of it. Smith v.

Phiilips, 455 US. 209, 221-22 (1982) (0*Connor, J., concurring); see Miller~EZ v. Drcz?ke, 545
US. 231, 267-68 (2005) (Breyer, J., concurring); Pennekamp v. Florida, 328 US. 331, 359
(1946) (Franh?nter, 1., concurring). And the impac of requiring each potential
juror to declare his fairness ?before [his] fellows? can engender bias, provoke false assurances,
It in sincere expressions of impartiality that are ?eeting at best. Irvin, 366 U.S. at 728; see

01' IESU

US. v. Dchz?nger, 472 F.2d 340, 3?75 (7th Cir. 1972) (?natural human pride? may compel juror to
assert his fairness).

Second, even if a juror honestly believes he can objectively hear the evidence before trial,
he may come to fear ?return[ing] to his neighbors? with anything other than a guilty verdict.
Estes, 381 U.S. at 545; see Tamer v. Louisiana, 379 U.S. 466, 472 (1963). Empirical data
con?rms the premises that animate the presumption of prejudice. Scholars have demonstrated the

danger of prejudice,? the fear of community disapproval for rendering an

unpopular verdict. See 3. g. Vidmar, Case Studies of Pro?and Midtrial Prejudice in Criminal and

Civil Litigation, 26 L. Hum. Behav. 73, 81?82 (2002).

WHEREFORE, for all of the foregoing reasons, as well as the reasons previously stated
in- Mr. Van Dyke?s previous filings in Support of a Change of Place of Trial and all exhibits, he

respect?illy requests that this Court grant his motion for a change of a' place of trial and strike the

current juror panel.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

Daniel Q. Herbert

The Herbert Law Firm

206 S. Jefferson, Suite 100
Phone: 

Fax: 3512?6553661
Dan.Herbert@danherbert1aw.com

Aboul loo protesters cell for Jason Van Dyke
conviction as jury selection begins

 

 

Protesters gather outside the Leighton Criminal Court Building to protes-tth? police-insolved'shooting death o-fLeqfuan McDonald on
Sept 5, 201.8) Chicago police Of?cer Jason Van Dyke is charged with the October 2014 killing of McDonald. Jury-selection for his trial

began Sept; 5. (Jose M. OsoriolChicegoTribune)

By Tony Briscoe

Chicago Tribune

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018? 5:10 PM

3 possible jurors for the murder trial of Chicago police Of?oer Jason Van Dyke Walkedinto the

- oomthouse Wednesday morning, roughly 100 protesters gathered. nearby calling for the officer's

 

conviction.

011 the ?rst day of the jury selection precess' for the high~pro?le case, protesters assembled on thelawn bemoan
California Avenue and California BouleVard, positioni?g ?lemselves bemoan the parlong garage, Where jurors
park, and The Leighton Criminal Court Building. The crowd, diverse. in age and raise, loudly chanted ?16 shots
and a cover?up!? as drivers passing the demonstration slowed to gawk; Some protesters brought hand?drawn

signs-1 inoluding one woman Whose sign read, ?Who do I call when a criminal has a badge 

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Another protester, standing on the walkway leading to the courthouse, held a sign with Van Dyke's mug shot
accompanied by theword ?guilty? in bold capital lettering. A netw girl: of metal barricades wrapped around
much of the designated protest area and the courthouse entrance. A small "contingent of Chicago police of?cers

and Cool; County. sheriff?s deputies kept watch on the perimeter of-the protest.

For community activist William Galloway, 2-9, the demonstration was the-firSt step'tow ardmalcing good on his

pledge to: leadpeople. in. protest outside the. courthouse every day of the trial.

"We're cut here. defending justice and, for people who don?t know, we want to raise people?s Consciousness

about Laquan McDonald,? said Galloway, of South Shore.

?It?s been closeto four years since the shooting happened. It's been three years since (van Dyke) has been

arged. And we want. justice. It's time- for him to face the music about what he di 

As the doors of the courthouse opened at 8530 am, a small group of protesters peeled merry and lined up to
grab a seat to observe Wednesday's proceedings. Protesters representing the Revolutionary Communist Party-
al'SO broke a'Way from the main group and marched in a loop in front of the courthouse steps, causing some
people-to have to wait to enter. However, law entereementhung heel: and there didn?t appear to be any

confrontations.

?We don?t feel like we're'in?uencing anybody,? Galloway said. ?We're doing. what we've been doing for the past

Several years, and that's demonstrating and demanding justice fer L'aquan McDonald. Nothing has changed.
we never tried to intentionally say that we're going to in?uence jurors. AndVan Dyke. still has the right to opt

out, waive a jury to do a? bench trial. You can?t influence-a judge.?

READ MORE: Van Dyke trial gets underway as potential jurors learn whose fate they could decide

The gathering was a reunion of sorts for many notablenames and faces-who have been involved in protesting

sin es the city releaSed the video three years ago of Van Dyke fatally shooting the black teen. Among them were
activist turned mayoral ?candidate a IMal Green, Jedidiah Brown and several relatives of people who had been

killed in police-invoked encOunter's.
Also taking the stage to address protesters was Aid. Carlos Ramirez?Rosa, 35th.

-?I'f'yesterday proves anything, it's that Laquan MCDonald rests in power,? Ranrirez~Rosa said, referring to

Mayor Rahrn Emanuel-?s announcement Tu'esday. not to run for a third term.

?Laqu-an McDonald. should get justice and will get justice became of people like you, continued.
?But let?s be clear, this fight goes so far beyond one court: case. It gees so far beyond one police. officer. This??ght'

is?about changing the system. We know you "can change the skin of the judge, you can change the look of the

police officer, you can get a new mayor, but you can still have a racist system,?

Protesters are. expecting to return to the courthouse Monday, when 21 pool of potential jurors are scheduled to

reconvene.



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This article is related to: Jason Van Dyke, Laquan McDonaid

 

THOMASJ, DART
SHERIFF

RICHARD J. DALEY CENTER
COOK CCU NTY
CHICAGO, 



    
 

Daniel Q. Herbert, Esq.
Herbert Law Firm
208 8. Jefferson

Suite 
Chicago, 1L, 60661

September 7, 2018

Dear Mr. Herbert,

On September 7, 2018 we identified a comment on Martin G. Johnson?s Facebook accountthat was
posted on September at 11:50 AM. The comments indicative of a threat to your client, Jason Van
Dyke. Please see a clip of the postings below. Aiso, please review the additional PDF clip of the

conversation.

Denote Sit-Butte White He walking around smiling With a toot on
thinking he can?t he touched it's away to get around that vest

 

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titan! Jeiittes His head is not protected@ 1
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The Cook County Sheriff?s Office ((3080) communicated the threat to the Chicago Police

Department, it)th District. They took a report and are following up. The Chicago Police Department,
and the Cook County Sheriff's Office, are .cooperatiyeiy working on identifying the subjects.

formation to the proper authorities. We would
staff in this case be communicated to

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The 0080 will continue to communicate any relevant in
also ask that any relevant information received by you or your

us as well.

  
 

The safety and security of all individuals entering the Criminal Court Building is our responsibility,

and one we take very seriously.

We thank you for your continued cooperation and support.

Sincerely,

4f 

Brad Curry, Chief Operating Officer
Geek County Sheriff?s Office
(773?) 674-7964

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Denise Atkins

Martin Johnson sad really really sad! 1 -

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Bobby Que
Martin Johnson they always do. 1

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Dee Franklin
Wassup with black people protesting lol they don't respect that stuff the only thing they respect is

money blood

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Jennifer Davis?5impson

Most likely. They all do.
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Steven Smith
You're right and when he gave that interview, he hr
bail raised is nothing but white 

oke the law period and was only reprimanded and

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Reggie Lindsey

He bond his self out and paid 10 percent. His bond was 1.5 million dollars. 

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Denise Atkins
But it was obly increased by $2000 so he only needed $200 to get out. They reported it was

paid and he will be released later today.
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Reggie Lindsey

Denise Atkins yea i heard 

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Tracy Burgett Trobaugh
i?m confused. If the original bond was 1.5 mil and the judge increased it another $2000. Then he

would need Way more that $200 to get out. Please help me understand

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Tracy Burg ett Trobaugh
Did he get out the the 1st bond and get rearrested and had to pay another $200?

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Denise Atkins
Tracy Burgett Trobaugh from what they are saying. This additional $2000 charge was for
violating the court order (gage) for talking with Fox news about the case. That?s how the 10% of

the $2000 came into play. I have no idea what this 1.5 million came from if he have not been
charged yet.
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Denise Atkins thank you 

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Bobby Que

Judgejust ?ned hirn 200$ for disobeying a court trial is already ajoke. 8

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Jennifer Davis~5impson
Bobby Que yes it is. He had that in his pocket. The judge iy did it to appease the black

community as if we don't know any better.
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His head is not protected 1

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Shon?te Hughes

said he's walking &the city gon they gon set Michigan ave on fire $53 4

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Meme Collins

it that happens protesting wili go no where, there has been protesting about this sick the next
thing is to take it to a higheriudioial system. i stiil did not get the memo, when did it become illegal to

shoot someone in the back it! Damn

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Gentry Edwin

He isn?t going to walk. Why not Wait to see if its true, before we declare it. ft

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Martin Johnson

it's the wrong charge ist degree murder its hard to more for police on duty. 9

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Gentry Edwin -
But they also charged him with 2nd degree murder.

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Quann Ware
Martin Johnson your right remember Rahkia Boyd they charged the cop wrong and that MF

walked.
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Bobby Que

Former States Attorney what's her name set it up like that to bene?t Van Dyke.

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Bobby Que
Martin Johnson you're a reaiist that?s all.

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Darnell R. Newton
THEY SHOULD HAVE CHARGED WITH MURDER

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TJ Blackman

You CAN NOT prove that a cop walked out the house and premeditated murdering a person.

2nd degree murder you can't prove the cops intentionaliy anyone.

ANYTIME you see a cop charged like they going to get off.

We have been getting tricked by LANGUAGE for way too we should be more aware these

days.
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People of color or neither term is speci?c to Black Americans ijs

Damn that?s sad

Terrell Cunningham
You sound dumbass Mr Martin

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Kareen Reno

ln the rykeia boycl case the officer with ?rst degree 

alked because they didn?t charge hi

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Wonne Jackson

rebuke that in the name oijesus. i think he going to prison but not longer then 5 yrs.

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Al Person
Not happening bro EU, 51} 

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Bobby Que

Laquan McDonald family asking for calm no matter what the decision is says a lot.

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Jesse Caver
you?re so right

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Darnell R. Newton
KILLER COP GETTING READY TO WALK
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Latrice Torry

Martin Johnson please
justi?ed?keephopealive

dont say that. I need to at least try to believe someting will be

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Monica Poole

So sad just look what's going on easy kill
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Shonte Hughes

'ust brace yourselves 8: think before you rea
Think before you 

ot because I honestly don't believe he?s going to

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Kenyatta Rosamond?Brand
Martin, l?rn praying he don't. That piece of shit needs to burn

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Tamara Brown
i said the same thing Ejust felt ?that way after they increased his bond only 2000 which oniy he needed to

pay 200 what was the point they knew clearly that 200 wasn't going keep him in So again what Was
the point? 
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the Leighton Criminal count Building Wednesday morning that'th'ey hat} been sailed for no ordinary" case.

when Cook County Judge Vincent Ga?ugha?n told them they had been called for the trial of?Jeson Van Dyk'e, several of ?iem exchanged
knowingiooks; One gasped. At least'on'e prospective" juror, who may not have reoogl?zed- le showed a glimmer of
reoogniti011 as Ganglion read off the first charge against Van Dyke: the first?.d.egrEe murder of Laquan?MeDonaid.

Jurors heard the names of Van Dyhe and McDonald nearly tote dozen more times in quick Succession, as Gaughan read through the fail
indictment: six counts of murder? in the 2014 sheeting of the 17vyear~old McDonald, 3 well as .16 counts ef'aggravated battery

and One count of official misconduct.
And so, the much-anticipated trial began - with common, ?rst-day formalities inside Gaugh'an?s Courtroom: Jurors Wednesday filled out

questionnaires and won?t return to the courthouse. at 26th and California until Monday. Van Dyke wilt return to the courthouse Thursday,
for a hearing, on whe?aer to revoke his bond after he gave interviews to the media last Week, a possible violation of- Gaughan?s order

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While Gadghan has tried to keep the publicity from talnti'ng the
trial for-which Chicago has been bracing. Van Dylte arrived early about an
bt?letpro?of vest and surrounded by. supporters, including Fraternal Order of Police-P-l?eSident Kevin G1

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half-dozen officers 'statidned on'the roof of the parking ramp across the street. Helicopters circledoverhead. Protesters: chanted, banged
drums, gave speeches and w'a?Ved signs. Many pt?ople entering the least one-sign with the words ?Guilty of Racist

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protesters. outside the chartlmuse.

who occupied a fenced area on the? boulevard at the center of South

walked through a [gantiet],? Herbert-said of the protesters,
. and the overwhelming theme was ?this guy'- is guilty!?

California Avenue. ?It was almost lilte'spectatingable to screen out biased jm'ors'with an elaborate selection process-that is likely to stretch most of

Gaughan said he was confident be
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the start of each session..Jhry selection in earnest next week,

attorneys in the case.

Outside, in the grass between Cal iforhia Avenue and California Boulevard?, Frank Chapman of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and
Political Opp ression monitored said the crowd appeared at the courthouse to make sure there?s jostice' for McDonald.
degree murder Chapman said.

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crowd had dispersed Wednesday by early afternoon.

?we did not forget.? He added, ?it needs to be

Community-organizer William Galloway said the protesters?presence-Sent the message that,
g" the city has over- soon.

noted, it Jason Van Dylte is acquitted, we will organize the most massive. demonstration anduprisin

Galloway said. ?Not just the.South and West. sides, notjimt'the black community, but the city as a whole; We

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need evelybody to come out. This needs to be intergenerstiOnal and multicthnic,

for-Laquan MCDonald.?

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Rev. Marvin Hunter claims no room in Van Dyke trial courtroom
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throng- of'protestct's gathered outside Cook County? 5 criminal courthouse Wednesday-to mark the start
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slogan: ?16 shots and a cover?up!?
As about 100 demonstrators occupied a str'ctch offgrass near California Avenue, nearly twice that number of
Eutecti-al jurors had to walk past them one'by one to. reach the courthouse.

Later, their faces looked somber as half of the 200 potential jurors crowded into Judge Vincent Gaughan?s

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When they learned they could be deCidi'ng Van Dyke?s fate, a few ofthein gave each other knowing looks and

nods. One woman covered her mouth with her hand.

In two different sessions over the course of about two-hours, Ganglion kicked off'th'ejuiy s'eleCtion process for

the'most closely watched trial in Cook County in years.

Van Dyke stood and quietly greeted the potential juror-s after. the judge introduced him as the defendant. As

usual, his tamer-accent}: anied him to court.

R?l?lm Emanuel?s announcement comes on. eve of trial over police shooting that plagued his
Second term 

A row in theibaek of the eou'rtrOOm Was reserved for family and Supperters of Laquan McDonald, the 17?year-
old killed by Van Dyke in- an. oil?duty shooting in 20.14. Mel) Onald?s mother Was in the courtroom for much of
the day.

Police dashboard camera-video released in 2015 by court order shows- Van Dykeopening ?ts within Seconds of
exiting his. squad car as McDonald, holding a knife, appeared to Walk away from police, contradicting reports
from officers at the scene that the black teen had threatened of?cers with the weapon. The release of the video

more than a year after the shooting Sparked months of protests and political upheaval.

An extraelar-ge pool of potential jurors was brought- in Wednesday to try to ensure encugh people who could

remain impartial in the face of the massive publicity can be found.

Wednesday?s sessions were largely uneventful, with Ganghan reading aloud the: indictment and
instruCting the potentialjurors on the basics of courtroom procedure. Each swore an oath to. answer questidns
truthfully and Were. ascerted out ofthe Courtroom. to ?ll out a presumably extensive questionnaire on their

backgrounds and opinions.

A study in contrasts: Competing lawyers in Van Dyke trial sh?ikingly different in style 

The judge, who has kept the questionnaire under seal for fear- of tainting the jury pool, declined to release a

blank copy. to reporters Wednesday.

The jury selection process will begin in earnest on Monday when. Ganglion questions potential jurors

individually in pi'iirate with the attorneys and a'rotation of rep ortersflo oking'on.

After the po?teiit?ial jurors had left theroom for the day, Van Dyke?s lead lawyer, Daniel Herbert, requested that

the entire group be removed fi'OIn censide'ratio'n because all of them presumably had to walk past the protesters

to make it into the courthouse.

Walked through a gauntlet,? he said. ?It almost made it likejyou were spectating at a zoo. You couldnit help

but look.?

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The demonstrators assembled on the lawn between California Avenue and California Boulevard early
Wednesday, positioning themselves on the Wide parkway betWeen the parking garage and the Leighton

Criminal Court Building.

The crowd, diVerse 111' age and 1ace, loudly chanted ?16 shots and a covernup!? as driVers passing the
demenstr ati'on slowed to gawk. Some protesters b1 ought hand?d1 awn signs, including one woman whoSe sign

read, ?Who do I call when a criminal has-a badge??

Another protester, standing on the walkway leading to the courthouse, held a sign with Van'Dyke?s niug?shot
accompanied by the word ?guilty? in bold capital lettering.

About 100 protesters call fer Jason Van Dyke conviction as jury selection begins 

Kane County State?s Attorney Joseph McMahon, acting as SpeCial prosecutor-in McDonald?s killing, told the
judge there Was. no evidence that the protesters had any effect 011. the jury-panel.

The, judge said any potential prejudice would he pleaded out when jurors arequestioned beginning next-week.
that a woman spectator had come to court in a shirt reading ?Jason Van Dyke? Murder,?

After Gaughan learned
he told attorneys to keep those watehing from the courtroom gallery in line.

who was sitting in the met res awed for McDonald?s family. and f11ends, was escorted cut of the

Thewoman,
deputies once the shirt Was noticed. She was allowed back inside afte1 turning it inside

courtroom by sheriff
out and covering it with a sweater.

?Both sides have got to control what?s going (inhere because I?m not going to tolerate it,? said Gaughan, who

has held spectators in contempt in other high?pro?le trials. going to start putting people-in jail.?

Meanwhile, McDonald?s relatives believe they were mistreated after a mixuup meant only eight of the 23 family

member's' 1n attendance could get seats inside the courtroom The Rev. Marvin Hunter, who Is McDonald?s

great?uncle, said he. had given the. names to p1 osecuto1s in advance and expl essed anger. that room wash 1:

reserved for everybody.

Listen to "'16 Shots," a podcast ab out the Laquan? McDonald shooting from WBEZ and the
Tribune >1

Van Dyke and his supporters received two rows in the front of the courtr'o 0111-, while McDonald?s relatives 

including his mother and sister were assigned onetoward the back

?We feelbetrayed,? said Hunter, who is the familypatriarch. ?It?s vent diSappointing because we trusted these
people.?

Hunter said he wants to speak with prosecutors before deciding whethel the family returns for the trial. It?s

possible the seating con?ision was part of first?day kinks, he said, but he doesn? 1? want his family to be

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disrespect-ed.
?We are not going to accept it,? he said. ?I?m not. going to subject my family to this again.?

A spokesman for the prosecution referred all questions to the Cook County sheriff?s office, which did not
immediately reap ood to a request for comment.

Also ?itVedm-gsday5 Ganglia-11 held a closed-door. hearing"- with an unspecified number of potential witnesSes who

have objected to having their trial-testimony captured onph'oto- or video.

While the process-to pick a jury has begun, Van Dylteis defense team could still decide that it would prefer
Gaughan alone determ?ie-the veteran. officer?s fate. Thede?fenseihas not form-ally declared its decision one it

can malts without Gaughan?s permissi'0n until the 12th juror is sworn is.

Mother- unanswered question hangs Over the selection process: Gaughan has said he willvnot rule on the
defense?s request to move the trial outside Chicago until after the. jury questioning has begun.

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sweeteners, 2013, 5:40 PM
.5 ustice for Laquan,? says the top of many of the signs being carried by the scores of protesters who?ve gathered outside the Leighton
Criminal Court Building in recent days. And, near the bottom, ?Convict Van Dyke.?

 

endorse the first demand. Justice must be done in this case. Laquan McDonald was walking away from Chicago police officers in October 2014
when Officer Jason Van Dyke opened fire, killing him. The circumstances, revealed by police dashcarn video, were so troubling that the question of
vhether Van Dyke murdered McDonald or used justifiable deadly force against him clearly belongs in court.

?Justice for Laquan? requires a full airing of the evidence and a fair presentation of arguments from?prosecutors and defense attorneys, followed by

i ruling from an impartial judge or jury.
That process is underway. Much of the legal ground?pawing is over, and we?ll soon be hearing opening statements.

And I?m hoping for the second demand. A conviction seems appropriate. I?ve watched the video of the shooting at least 100 times since it was
released to the public in November 2015, and I?ve soaked up every story about the killing I can get my hands onthough Van
Dyke acted rashly and without sufficient provocation when emptying 16 bullets into McDonald. 

But I don?t confuse ?justice? with the informed conjecture of even the most fair~minded newspaper columnist.
Justice is a premise. Conviction is a conclusion.

Declaring Van Dyke guilty before the testimony and presentation of evidence begins, as many of the protest signs explicitly do, is the opposite of
justice. 

And so is parading around outside a courthouse calling Van Dyke a ?racist murderer? over a bullhorn as his trial unfolds.

Activist William Galloway told the crowd of protesters, ?If he?s acquitted, it?s not just going to be the South Side, not just going to be the West Side,
but it?s going to be every side of this city that?s going to rise up and shut this city down.? 

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in doubt But exposing prospective jurors to this and other hang?him?high messages as they enter the courthouse threatens rather than supports
he ideals of justice.

iure, it may feel right in this cas e. I acknowledge it feels right to me. But our justice system is explicitly designed to sort out what feels right from
what is right, to guard against, not reinforce, popular sentiment.

?We want to raise people?s consciousness about Laquan McDonald,? Galloway told a Tribune reporter. ?We don?t feel like we're in?uencing anybody.
We never tried to intentionally say that we?re going to in?uence jurors.?

Then why choose a spot for protesting that jurors are bound to pass every day?

Van Dy ke sic ad eef ense attorney, Daniel Herbert argued Wednesday that the entire group of prospective jurors questioned on the ?rst day of the
selection pro csess should be excused from service because all of them had likely been exposed to the messages of the protesters.

The request was ironic given how many times over the years police officers have attempted to in?uence juries and otherwise distort justice by
dressing in uniform and packing courtroom galleries.

In 1997, nearly 200 Chicago police officers, many in uniform, showed up at a court hearing and stared down a man who had accused two of?cers of-
beating him.

In 2001, see ores of uniformed officers showed up for closing arguments and other parts of the trials of Jonathan Tolliver, who was ultimately
convicted of the 1998 murder of Chicago police Officer Michael Ceriale. During abrealc 1n deliberations at the ?rst trial, which ended a hung jury,
one ju uro 13' felt som much pressure at the sight that she began crying hysterically.

Appellat ec courts have occasionally recognized the intimidating effect on jurors of such demonstrations and overturned guilty verdicts. And judges

have occas1 ioynall prevented police from attending trials 111 uniform, just as they almost always ban Spectators from wearing buttons and other
symbols su gtiges ng support for a particular verdict.

Sheriff deputies on Wednesday escorted from the courtroom a spectator wearing a ?Jason Van Dyke? Murder? T-shirt. They allowed her to return
only after she?d turned the shirt inside out and covered it with a sweater.

My belief infree dom of expression is strong, but it outweighed here by my belief no criminal trials free from theatrics designed to in?uence the
result.

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ion?t want jurors or witnesses feeling pressure from activists any more ?men I want them feeling pressure from police officers, gang members or
.pportiye families in the viewing gallery. I don?t want them worrying about the imp act of their verdict on various constituencies that have already

.ade up their minds. Not in ?dris case. Not in any case.

lob rule seems a wonderful thing when you?re on the side of the mob. But when you?re not, the idea that protests would alter charging decisions
1d verdicts is ?ightening._

leally, jurors and witnesses would be given?routes in and out of courthouses away from the signs and sounds of demonstrators (they must walk
ight by the designated protest zone at the Van Dyke trial). And spectators would be screened from the view of participants and thus prevented from

articipating in the proceedings.

liter the evidence is in and a verdict is rendered, sure, we?re all free to second guess. Juries get it wrong remember attorneys stumble,
udges err, witnesses lie, new evidence surfaces. Protest can certainly be the apprOpriate response along wi?d1 other calls for productive action.

But during a trial, protests and demonstrations only threaten to distort justice, not see it done.

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are essential in the short term to
Win justice for Laquan, but also in
the longer term to build
organizations and the lcind of power
that can challenge the racism of city
institutions and advance toward
abolish prisons, ICE and the police

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In the intervening years, the
Chicago Police Department and the
city?s political establishment. did
everything they could to keep this
trial from ever" taking place. It is
going forward for one reason and
one reason Only: beCause the
people of Chicago refused to be
silent.

Mas-s public pressure, protest and
activism brought Laquan?s murder
to light, compelled the city to
release dash?cam video of the
incident and stopped the
authorities from sweeping another
police murder under the rug.

It?s difficult to overstate the
significance of Laquan?s murder and
the popular backlash against the
failed Cover?up by Chicago police
and. politicians.

The system. is designed to shield
police. from accountability. Now, for
the first time in 3.5 years, a Chicago
police officer will face a first?degree
murder charge for oneduty

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Protesters demand justice for Laquan McDonald
in Chicago

 

behavior.-

On Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel announced that he
wouldn?t run for reelection in the
election to be held next Februaly.
Emanuel?s handling of the Laqoan
McDonald case and the subsequent
federal civil rights investigation of
the Chicago police were cited by the
Chicago Tribune as central to his

deCiSiO?.

Finally, the trial comes at an
inopportune time for the city?s
political class, which is straining to
contain the fallout from the horrific
levels. of gun Violence that have
again catapulted Chicago to the
center of a national conversation.

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The movement that brought Laq?uah's? kilier 10' trial i SociaiistWorkemrg

This is the story of. how a popular
movement forced the city of
Chicago to step stone-walling justice
and put a cop on. trial. But it is also
an appeal for activists to seize
this opportunity to win jUStice for
Laquan, While shining a spotlight
on the entire police department and
the politicians who cover for. their
violence and brutality.

THE DATE. was NoVernber 24-, 2015
me two days "before. Thanksgiving.

The city of Chicago had spent the
last year and more than $5 million
fighting calls to release the dash?-
earn Video of Laquan?s last
moments. Chicago Police
Superintendent Garry McCarthy
and Mayor Emanuel worried that
the Video?s depiction of a cold
blooded murder would spark an.
outpouring of protest.

When a judge finally ordered the
release of theyide?o, they were
proven right.

The protests began immediately.



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The movement that brought Laquan's killerjlo trial 2 9(61?18, 11:03 AM

The city hoped that releasing the
footage before Thanksgiving would
mute protest-s, but they were wrong
on that point.

On Black Friday the day after
Thanksgiving thousands of
Chicagoan-s choked the sidewalks
up and down the Magnificent Mile,
Chicago?s high-~ end retail and
tourist destination.-

The demonstrations that took place
after the Video was release and. Went
Viral punctured the blue Wall of
silence in ways that years of
preVious organizing hadn?t. People
took to the streets to demand
justice with such frequency that
radio traffic reports regularly
included protest updates. Emanuel
was heckled with cries- of ?16 shots?
at: public appearance.

The Black Friday protest tamed
into the largest Black Lives Matte}:
demonSttat?io? in ChiCa-go to date,
because organizers made a.
concerted effort to reach out to the
broadest possible numb-er of'people.
The members ballooned when
?otable figures like Jesse Jackson Sr.

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The movemantihat brought Laquan's killer to trial Sacialisiworketorg 9!6}18. 11:03 AM

and Father Michael P'fleger, and
onions like the Chicago Teachers
Union, echoed the call to mobilize.

Theosands of people occupied the
sidewalks along Michigan Avenue,
essentially shutting down large
sectiorls of the shopping district 
likely "amounting. to millions of
dollars "in lost sales on the biggest
shopping clay of the year.

The event demonstrated that the.
racist corruption within the

Chicago Police Department (CPD) 9--
as well as the hatred of Rehm 
could unite labor onions, chur'Ch
congregations and Black radicals. It
made the fight against racism a
citywide is sue.

THE in the fall and
winter of 2015 caused a crisis-i131 city

polities. 

First, there was a string of forced
resignations of city and police-
.offic?ials, including Police
Superintendent Garry McCarthy 
who, in a darkly ironic torn,

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The increment that brought Laqdan?s kilier to lrial I SoolalisiWorker.brg 9/6/18. 11:03 AM

announced this past MarCh, long
before Emanuel?s decision net to
run again, that he Would campaign
for mayor. Mc (Earthy claimed
farcically that he was. running. to
?save Black lives.?

ext, the protests caused the
dissolution of the toothless
Independent Police Review
Authority and the creation of a new,
though still teethless, Police
Accountability Task Force, led by
Lori LighthOt, who is also currently
running for mayor.

Then there was the ouster of Cook
County State?s Attorney Anita
Alvarez for failing to prosecute Van
Dyke. An effective #ByeAnita
campaign led to the election of Kim
Foxx, who was considered a
progressive alternative to Alvarez.

For a time, it even appeared that
Emanuel might fall. His approval
rating dipped to 18 percent. Calls
for the resignation of the-politically
connected mayor of the nation?s
third~largest city issued net just
from secial-justice activists, but
also from many of Rahrn?s

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supporters, including prominent
Black religious- fightes.

In the end, Emanuel held on, but his
announcement that he Wouldn?t
run for a third term. when Chicago
voters head to the polls in February
is partly a delayed ?conseqnence of
the 2015 protEsts and therlnanv
forms that resistance to Emanuel?s
pro?cop agenda have taken since
then.

A number of factors led to the
politically disruptive impact of the
winter 2015 protests.

Chicago?s long and visible problem
with abusive ?policing, killer cops
and even poliee torture of Black
residents on the city?s South Side
has been well documented.

When demonstrations- erupted in
response to the police murders of
Eric" Garner- in StatenlslancL ew
York, and Mike Brown in Ferguson,
Missouri, in Tilly and August 2014,
an anti?racist movement was born:
Black Lives Matter.

The nationwide mobilizatiOns. that
followed frightened Emanuel and

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The movement that brought Laquan?e killer 'to trial 1 11:03. AM

the CPD, leading them to Cover up
the horror of Van Dyke?s shooting of
McDonald captured on Video. In. the
months to come, the protests
continuied netioh'ally, most notably
when Baltimore rose against the
police reorder of Freddie Gray.

The pot was already boiling when a
judge finally Ordered the City to
release the video of Lequan?s
murder and that?s when the lid
came off.

THOUGH VAN Dyke is the one in
the defendant?s Chair, this case put
the entire CPD on trial and
there?s a lot to answer for.

Iust in the past few weeks, the CPD.
has been in the mm for murdering
another fleeing Black man,
attempting to erltrap poor Black
residents with a ?bait truck? full of
Nilces, the death of 15 
year? old Steven RoSenthal, the
release of the term-s of the federal
cons en't decree surrounding the
lO?g? history of biased
policing, and a damning new report

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by investigative journalists on racial
disparity and the use of force by the
CPD.

On top of that, Emanuel and other
politicians have. responded to the
summer surge of gun violence with
supposed solutions that will only
add to the problem of police terror
directed. against ChiCago?s
communities of color.

Van Dyke?s trial also underscores
the systematic failure of multiple
Co ok? County state?s attorneys to

hold killer cops accountable.

Anita Alvarez, the state?s attorney
who initially dragged her feet in
bringing charges against Van Dyke,
also allowed the officer who killed
Relc?ia Boyd to go free after charging
him with manslaughter instead of
first?- degree murder.

Driven by justifiable outrage, many
people active in the Black Lives
Matter movement in Chicago
organized to vote out Alvarez and
replace her with the supposedly
progresSive Kim Foxx, who
campaigned on a promise to use
special prosecutors in all pelice



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The movement that brought Laquan?s killer to trial i SocialistWOrkemrg 9(6118, 11:03 AM

shooting cases.

But Foxx quickly backpedaled on
that pledge, rejecting the call for a
Special prosecutorzin the trial of
Robert Rial'nio, the cop who killed
Quintonio LeGriet and Bettie lones
in the weeks following the
McDonald protest. Rialmo
ultimately avoided any
accountability despite the fact the
police review board found the
shooting ?unjustified.?

This is just the most recent example-
of the bitter fruit borne of activists?
efforts to elect FOXX as a means to
address the rot at the heart of
Chicago?s police and Criminal

ustice system. Sadly, this turn to
electoral. organizing took place in
the midst of the protests against
McDonald?s murder, and with calls
for the resignation of Rahm coming
from all corners of the; city. 

Today, many movement activist-s
still consider Foxx?s election a
Victory. yet the court system and
the state?s attorney office have all
been complicit-in allowing Chicago
police to dodge accountability.

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The movement that, brought Laquan's killer to l?riaf sis/is, 11:03 
Instead, the task of imposing even a
shred of accountability on police
has fallen time and time again. on.
victim-5?- families; activists, students
and community organia ations
fighting in the streets for justice.

AS VAN Dyke?s trial gets underWay,
a numb er of organizations have
joined together to launch? a
campaign for justice for Laquan,
beginning with a protest on the firSt
day of'the. trial.

Black Lives ?Matter?Chicago, Black
YOuth Project 100, Good Kids Mad
City, Organized Communities
Against Deportation, the
International Socialist Organization
and the Chicago Alliance Against
Racism and Police Repression are
just a few of the groups involved.

Winning a conviction of Van Dyke
would be a major victory. If other
cops think they might also go on
trial and eVen end up in prison for
killing a Black man, they might
think twice before pulling. the .
trigger. Until we have. the power and

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The movement that brought Laquan's killer'to trial I SocialistWorker.org 936118, 11:03 AM

level of organization necessary to
dismantle the prison system, police
who kill Black people should be
locked. in those prisons.

Grassroots mobilisations for justice
are essential in the short term to
win justice for Laquan, but also in
the longer term to build
organizations and the kind of power
that can challenge the racism of city
institutions and advance toward
abolish prisons, 1613 and the police

in general.

The proteSt?s of 2014 and after
provide a glimpse of that power 
and how: it shook the city
establishment. We need to shake
the. City again.

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"The turnout is, gonna get greater as this goes on, 111113 we got
people demonstrating in ?solidarity/1'11 13- different cities," said
Community actiyi'st Frank Chapman.

?We haVe a systemic problem where we have policing in the
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The p1 0111335 to find 12 111113111 tial Jurors began Wednesday

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Tuesday, relatives for McDonald called for peace. They don't
want-to see any violence'before, during or after-the'trial.

Meanwhile, it?s still unclear if this-will turn out to be a bench
trial or a jury trial.

Van Dyke?s attorneys don't think a fair jury can be seated in Cool;
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police of?ter Jason Var'i Dylce began Wednesday, withhundreds of
protesters gathe?ringoutsidetoadvocate for his co?viction.

Jurors brought'into the Leighton Criminal Courthouse could not

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avoid the throngs of demonstrators who had assembled outside.
They voiced'phra'ses like "Can we ge'tjustice for LaQuan McDonald?

Yes! 

OI ganizers say jurors should pay attention to evidence during the
trial and consider how the public? thinks about the killing of i7>year

old Laquah McDonald.

Van Dyke IS the st Chicago police of?cer In decades to be charged
with ?t st- -degI as murder for an on- duty shooting. He? shot
McDonald 16 times on the night of Oct. 20 2014, as pelice were
responding to reports the teen was slashing tires" near 41512 and
Pulaski.

McDonald was armed With a knife and allegedly had slashed the tire
of a? police car before Van Dyke arrived on the scene.

in a report he ?led after the shooting, McDonald attacked Van
Dyke, and swung-the knife in an ?aggressive manner.?

However, dashboard Camera Video released the day Van Dylte was
charged with murder contradicts the police account, and shows
McDonald walking away from Van Dyke when he was shot.

The trial is anticipated to be one of the most watched trials in
America.

"They should be "very ?rnuch aWare of the public Sentiment on this
case and used that to help inform their decisions as to what justice
to look like like,? said demonstrator Amara Enyia, who. stood among
the sea of protesters on Wednesday.

In his courtroom! Judge Vincent Gaughan told potential jurors to
only consider evidence presented' In court. But could the worldwide
coverage of the "shooting and demonstrations outside the court

house affect the jurors? judgment?

CBS legal analyst iry Miller said the heavy public-attention could
have an impact on the trial. 

"It may discoLirage some of these people from wantingto sit on the
jury,? Miller Said,

-hundred potential Juror were in court today. Judge Vincent
Gaughan I- sad the charges against van Dyke hetere' sending them to

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Van Dyke is Charged with first?degree murder, aggravated battery and official misooriduct. He has
pleaded ?not guilty; his attorneys have contended that he was. in fear for his life. [Vie-Donald Was shot
16 times. Video shows van Dyke opened fire. as McDonald Walked away from police with a knife in
his hand.

Van Dyke's attorneys have also filed a motion asking that the trial be moved out of Chicago, arguing
that extensive publicity has made it impossible for the officer to get a fair trial in the city where the
video sparked massive protests. Judge Vincent Gaughan has said he will decide on the change of
venue motion: after he hears from potential jurors during jury selection.

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It?s bee'n three years since the city marge pob?o..dasheam footage that showed Chicago police Of?cer Jason
Van Dyke fatally shooting 17-year-old Laqoan McDonald in October 2014.

The grainy, but graphic-imagesinstantly created a fut'o'r' and Outraged residentewho see the video as
visibie? proof of police misconduct towardspeople of color and the grate ceasequenCes of?lat behavior.

van Dyke?e'oxm future new depends on the outcome of atrial that ?nally got underway Wednesday at the?
Cook County Criminal COUrthouSe.

There were no: courtroom ?reworks or ?Law 8: Order"~style drama; the main order of business Wednesday
was Starting jury. selection.

Roughiyr 200 prospec?tiire jm'or's ?rst learned they may betasiced withbeooming arbiters ofa ease with
enormous magnitu?e when Judge Vincent Gaughan inniodueedt?e attorney's and the defendant.

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?This? is about justice for L'aquan McDonald, but as we know that Jason Van Dyke andof?eers-iike
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Activists' demands are varied and muitifotd; many see it as a victm'y that Mayor'Rahm Elnanuel will step.
down at the end of his term. but now they want changes lihe civilian controi of the police ?erce and a new
contract with the Chicago police Union'that sets greater i'i'rnits on officers.

They'also ?eroand be consisted of mm?e'r, or.e13e, Gailoway said. 'Wc-?re going to shut this'city
compliately down.?-

?If (as) unfavorabie verdict comes back. we?re Catling_f61' the. most massive demonstration and uprising
that the. city of CI?eago has ever seen,?- he-said.

Another community organizer, Brother Hi1! ofBroneeviile, said h??d_?fee_1 Sorry" for Chicago {fVan Dyke is
acquitted.

"t?nr not adeeating any vioIche. but at that point, I think particularly people of color Would then say,
well, we get-11o justice. And that?s the wrong massage to Send,? H111 said.

Demonstrations are planned for the remam?er of, the trail.-

It?s possible Van D?ce himself avoided the brunt of the rally directed against him he arrived ?atthe
courthoije around 7:30? am. accompanied by a team of supporters inciuding Kevin Graham, president of

the?Frsternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge 7.
Van Dyke?s father sat next -to_ his son for much of the in the from courtroom bonch.
McDonald's family also came'to court; his mother ha? previously avoided proceedings but did show up

Wednesday. Several relatives got Upset beea?usethey say they were told there Wasn't enough room for
them in the courtroom; ?21.11}in or friends who didfget seats- were mad theyr were in the hack rows.

Dyke did not give him. his day in coult.? He acted asjudge,jo1y and-executioner,? McDonald?s great uncle

Ma rvin Hunter told rcporte rs.
It?s unclear howlong the trial may last.

Gaughsn-?eould decide Thursday whether he?ll grant a request from the prosecution to ?revoke Van Dyke?s
bail after he gave interviews with the Chicago Tribune and local Fox 32 last week.

Rote'ntial jurors should be back in court?Menday, when-they'll start being-'quest'mned by attorneys.

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QHICAGQ Jury 's'etection began Wednesday. in the murder trial of a Chicago potice officer charged in the
controversial shooting death of Laquan McDonaidr a high-pro?le incident that impacted the nationald"eb'ate on

policing white also causing an enormousripp'le effect on the political landscape in one ot?imerioa's biggest

cities.

 

It's been nearly. four years since Of?Cer Jason Van Dyke tired 16 shots at the 17?year?oid. a moment that sent a

iPhofwAPl' shock wave thrOngh the city?s poiilt'cat establishment and foroed a White reckoning with the Chicago Police
Departments dif?cult history in African-American communities.

The incident led to the ouster at the ballet boxcf'the county prosecutor, the ?ring of a police soperi'ntendent and a Department of Justice civil rights

investigation of the city?s p?oiice department;

it also did pctitical damage icons of Americas most prominent mayons?. Two?term Mayor Rahm Emanuet announced Tuesday that he won?t {uh-for 
eiec?tibn. 11151201 1-91 51 2002!),

The city. Was. forced, under police-order. to release the police dashboard camera video to the public. The jarring footage "spurred weeks of

mostly peaceful 'sir'eet? protests;

On the eve of the trial._ McDonald?s family salted for peace, no matter the outcome;

?We're asking for Complete peace," the Rev. Marvin Hunter, McDonald's great uncle. told reporters. ?We don't want any violence before. during or after

the verdict in this trial.?

Outside the courthouse Wedne?sdav.- prospeCIiVe jurors were greeted by dozens of demonstrators holding Sig n?s denouncing Van Dyite and chanting "16

shots and a cover-Up."

About 200 potenttaijorolrs Were sworn in Wednesday and read-each coont of the indistmentagainst Van Dyke before being dispatched to ?ll out

questionnaires;

Judge WnceGaughan told th em they would be? asked ?to return-to the courthouse for questioning by attorneys from teeth sides in the coining days. le?e
judge Ordered the jurors not to Speak to anyone about the case.

Gaogha'n, who is overseeing the. case, could eat! tor'ajury from outside Cook County-or- even move the case outside the Chicago area.



 

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Van Dyke's attorney, Daniel Herbert, filed a motion test"
make it difficult to ?eid-an Impartial panel.

Gaughan said he would decide or; the'issue "after" starting-"the jury'screening process, which will give him the opportunity to determine whether an

unbiased jury oouid be found from the Chicago poet.

in theend, Van Dyke could also Opt for-a bench trial meaning the officer Wouid teaVe it up to the j'udge'to decide his fate.

 

L'aquan Mobs?eldgright. walks down the street moments hefojre'betng shot

In lhIs.Oct. 20, 2014, image from dash-earn 'vlcteo provided by the Chicago. Potlce'Dspar-inwnt;
by polite Of?cer Jason van Dyke In Chicago. (Plr?oitifAP)

Jury selection began one day-sitter Emanuel made the surprise announcement he would not seek a'third term as mayor. The veteran politician had seen

his Support in Chicago's large African?American community erode over his administrations handiing 'of the shooting.
Congress and'White House chief of'staff to President Barack

Emanuel, who ?served as a Senior adviser-to President Biit Ctinton. a Democratic leader in
n'ctudect it was the". right moment for. him to step away from

Chants before he was elected mayor in 2011, said that ire-and his Wife, Amy Rois! had so
poiltles.

David AXelr'od, who served with Emanuel in the Obama White House, totd USA-TO DAY the mayor had been speaking With a small group of friends and

advisers over the past {ewmonths about a potential third term.
While Emanuel raised miilions for the campaign. AXelrod said he expressed concern that he didn?t have it in' him tdspe'nd four more years as mayor.
Axelrod said the mayor. didn?t iatk about the Van Dyke case-as he'weigh'ed his decision.

"it didn?t come up in any of the discussions"! had with him," he said.

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The shooting garnered little attention until an activist, Wiiliam Cailoway. and Branden Smith, sued the city to retease'the video.
rig?prosecutors charged Van-Q'yke with ?rst-decree murder

On the day the city made the footage public 400 days after the sheen
battery and effioialjmisccinduct;

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The cityaiready had agreed to make. a $5 million payout to McDonaid's mother, settling a potential claim before she filed suit.

The video appeared to show McDonald treating aviay tram chicors as Van Dyke ?red 16 shots at him. Police say the. teen had a 4?inch retractable
knife and had been breaking into trucks.

The release spurred weeks of largely peaCefoi proteins in the City, and triggered a 13-month Justice Department inV'estigation. The department fou?nd't'he
excessive-use of force by potice was rampant in the and. Latino Communities.

Anita Alvarez, the Cook County state?s attorney at the time cha'rges.against Van Dyke were announced. faced criticism from activists who said she took

too long to bring charges against the officer and was ineffective in cf aileged police-misconduoi.

She was defeated in a Democratic primary by-a challengerwh?o made the McDonald case a central focus to the campaign.

Emanuel. who. argued against releasing thevideo during an ongoing federal investigation, faced sails to resign.
McCarthy, ushered in a series of changes at the police gag

The r'na'yor tired his police soperintendent, Garry
his ovyn missteps and spoke of a "code of-

inewsl2015i'i 
silence" Within the police department that he said tarnished the agency's reputation.

But he declined to step aside.

The Rev; lraA'cree, a pastor on the city's West Side and a critic of the mayor, applauded his decision not to seek a third-term.

"The Upcoming Jason Van Dyke trial highlights his role in the Laquan McDonald'polioe murder cover-up. which is politically unforgivabie,? he said.

Poiice say they were. responding to reports of a suspect breaking into trucks tn alot on the City?sSoothwest Side When they fotmd McDonaid with the
knife. They say he slashed the tire of a notice vehicie not long before Van Dyke ?red on him;

Prosecutors say Van Dyke fired immediately after getting out of his vehicie. Several office rowers at the scene, but Van Dyke Was the only officer to shoot.

Prosecutors say he ?red 13 of the. 16 shots at McDonald'whiie the teenager was lying on the ground.
After the-shooting, ?v?art. Dyke'told inyestig'ato'r?s that McDonald "raised'the knife across his chest and over his shoatder. painting the knife?' at him before he
opened fire; according to police documents.-

Van Dyke also told investigators he continued to fire hisweapon at McDonald white he was. on the ground becatise the teen "appeared to-be attemptiinQ)

toget Lip, sit the white centinuing to point the knife" at him.

Pat?Camden. a spokesman for-the Fraternal Order of Police, told reporters soon after the incident that McDonald Iu nged at of?cers and Van Dyke
defended himself.

The video. however. appears-to show McDonald veering away from officers when Van Dyke opened lire;

Van Dyke said in interviews Chicago Tn'bune and. Fox32 Chicago East-week that he ?Was rationing his training.- He expressed concern about his

fate.
strongiy believe th__a_t.politips Was heavily involved with this since the beginning." van; Dirk?! said in the television interview. would like {the jury to know
the facts of the situation" that. happened; And i woold like them to make a decision based on evidence and-not on opinion."

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Laq?an McDonatd death: Jury! selection for Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke 10:56 AM

ed a defior'um order'from thejudge that directed he one involved

Fotiowtng the intervieWs, special prosecutor Joseph McMahon said Van Dyke breach
io?n asking G'aughan to jaii the officer or rates his $1.5 mit'iion bond

make substantive comments on the ease outside the courtroom. McMahon filed a mot
forfeiting to fotlow alt ordersx's'et by the court as a 'stipu'iation of his bait.

Herbert said in court that Van Dyke was exercisi?g his First?imiendment fight to .eXpress his feelings ab?outa critical moment in hts'Ii'fe.

?The playing field has been untevet against Jason van Dykerat every stage in this case." Herbert said.

The judge is schedtjted to hold-a hearingon the matter Thurs-day.

Two other officers-and a detective in the case-face state charges of conspiracy, obstruction o'fiusttce and misconduct.

ish and Thomas Ga-ffney-are accused of lying to investigators and mischaratiterittg the Video recordings in hopes that independent

Of?cers Joseph We
ought on the according to the indictment.

investigator?s wouldn?t team what happened and. the public?woutd 'not see the video footage 

De?t?ectit?ie David March Signed off on statements that several officers at the soehe gave totlowing the shooting and indicated in his re?p'ort'the're were no

discrepancies between what the officer's said happened and What could be seen'in the poltce dashcem video.

The three are scheduled to go to trial in November.

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It Weren't for police dashcam footage that captured the final moments of 17-year~old
Laquan McDonald 3 life the murder trial of Chicago police. c?ffieer Jason Van Dyke, who

fatally shot the teenager 16 times, may never have happened.

 

The October 20 2014, incident began after police received reports of a young black? man trying
to break into Vehicles When polide officers arrived at the scene. they encountered McDonald

who. they said had a folding knife' In his hand.

Shortly after arriving at the scene Van Dyke who Is white stepped out of his vehicle and in a
matter of moments fired 16 shots at McDonald In a span of 15 seconds.

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Laquan McDonald Shooting: Chicago Trial of Officer Jason Van Dyke Be?glr?as 9.36718g 10:D?monstratoro hold signsbearing the name of Laquan-M-o?ohazld doriogpro?eots. in? Chicago, Illinois? on November
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white policeman, Jason Van Dyke. Van Dyke's murder trial over'the shooting begins on Wednesday,

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Van Dylte, who is now 40 years old, had claimed after the incident that McDonald had been
swinging the knife he was holding. in an ."aggressive exaggerated manner-?L-?an account that
his fellow officers had SUpperted.

But when daehcam video of the. incident was reijeased-mere than one year after the
shooting in NoVemb?er 2015?4: appeared to, reveal a different story;

In the video; McDonald can be. seen running down the street, with his back to the camera, as
officers arrive in their vehicles from behind him and beside him.
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AS police officers, including Van Dyke, exit their vehicles, McDonald slows to a walk and
appears to take; several steps away from officer-s. That-*5- when Van Dyke appears to ishoot him,
firing a total of'1'6 shots", acCording to the Gardner's report.

     
   

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24, 2015, Lamar: walks. up a ?streetj'ust prior to

released by the Chicago Felice Department on November
being shot by Chicago Police of?cer Jason Van Dyke 0n

Oetohm?QU,? 2.014 in Chicago, Officer Van Dyke was charged with ?rstdegree m?u?rder for the Shooting in

which McDonald was hit With 16 bullets. His-trial betting Wedn esd-ay, September 2018.
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van Dyke was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and other firearm offenses on the
same day that the-video was released, sparking outrage and igniting protests across the city,

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Laquan McDonald Shooting: Chicago Trial tit-Officer Jason Van Dyke Begins elem}, 10:54 AM

with many demanding to know why the foetage had been Withheld for more than a. year.

Family calls tar "mmplete peace"
With more protests expected as Van Dyke?s murder trial begins, McDonald's family has called.
for incomplete peace," asking that protesters demonstrate macaw?

"We? don?t want any violence before, during and after the Verdict in "this. trial," the
Reverend Marvin Hunter? McDonald's greet uncle, said during a press conference Tuesday,

according to ABC News.

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Laqua?n McDonald Shooting: Chicago Trial of Officer? Jason Van Dyke Begin's- 91311.3; ?10:54 

 

Laqu?an McDonald was 17 years old when he was fat-ally shot by Chicago police of??cer'Jason Van Dyke;
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"We: are conscious that Laquan McDonald represents all of the victims of police: violence
against'citize'ns- in this city and this country. However, we're asking for complete peace," he
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A number of activist groups have already been granted a permit to hold a large protest outside
the Leighton Criminal Co'urt Building?, starting on Wednesday morning?, when the jury selection

for the trial is slated to begin.

Black Lives Matter- Chicago has called for supporters to attend the "rally in the morning to
demand "justice for? Laotian."

Demanding justice

The trial is also expected to bring fresh scrutiny over the way that the city an
made thels-urprise announcement earlier this Week that he would be stepping

it?s Mayor, Rahm

Emanue
down from the rolewresioonded to- the deadly shooting.

5 President Barack Obama?s first White House chief of staff, will face
I footage of the incident was withheld for more than a

Emanuel, who served a
question?s once again around why crucia
year, deepite the city paying McDonald-'3 family $5 million in compensation.

 

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Laquan McDonald Shooting: Chicago Trial of .Otflcer Jason Van Dyke Begins QISHB. 1035.4 AM

Demonstrators continue to protest the fatal police shooting of Laotian McDonald December 18, 2015 in Chicago,

Illinois.
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Regardless of the mayor?s decision to step dowm his role in a case that brought decades of
distrust of Chicago's police offiCers in the city?s black communities to the surface will not be
quickly forgotten in the city?s collective memory;

if anythingi his resignation comes years too late for those who have been demanding it shuts
footage of McDonald's death first emerged.

"I'm not a racist" 

As for Van Dyke, in the days before the trial, the police officer appears. to have been
determined to set the tone, making the extraordinary decision to participate in multiple media
interviews, in which he has denied accusatiOns of having been a "racist" police officer.

"Everyone wants to be. part ofthe bandwagon ?of hatred. Anyone who knows me, knows me.
personally, I'm not a racist," he told The Chicago Tribune. "That's a great false

narrative. . . it's just slander."

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Laq?ea?n'McDonaid Shooting: Chicago Trial of Officer Jason \ian Dyke Begins 916218, 10:54 AM

 

Chicago police of?cer Jason Van Dyke leaves the Criminal Courts Building after pleading not guilty to 
murder charges related to the shooting death 0f17-year?eld LaquenMdDenald'en December 2-9: 2015, in Chieego,

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think I was a great police Officer," he said. always made efforts to; treat eVer'ybody fairly and
With reSpect end the way [wanted my 0mm family to. be treated."l

Van Dyke said he was "extremely nervous" about his trial, saying; might be looking at the
p?dssibility of spending the rest of my life in prison" for doing my-jeb as was" trained as a
Chicago police of?cer.? 

As the trial beg the on Wednesday, it will be up to a jury to decide whether Van Dyke committed
murder?or whether he was simply ?doing his the night that he fatally shot McDonald

16 times.
Read more: Chicago Felice Officer-Charged with Killing. Laquan McDonald Pleads?pt

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Guilty

Van Dyke?s trial follows on the heels of the trial of white former Texas poliee offioer Roy Oliyel}.
Who Was found guilty of murder last week in the fatal "sheeting of unarmed Jordan

Edwards, who was black,

Oliver had fired his gun five times into a moving vehicle carrying five black teenagers while
responding to reports of Underage drinking at a party in Balch Springs in April 2017.

Edwards, who had been sitting in the front passenger seat, was fatally shot in the head.

Ajury sentenced Oliver to as many years in prison as Edwards had lived?efifteen ?years, which
the teenager?s family said would never be enough to make up for the loss of life.

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Published Septemb?t? 05. 2018

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Nearly 200 protesters chanted outside a Chicago courthouse Wednesday as?jury selection began in the ?rst?degr_ee murder- triel of
awhile polioe o?toer acouse'd of killing ?a black teenager.

to ?ll out.- Though the documents were Seated, they; likely were asked how closely

Prospective jurors wer'egitren questionnaires 
he dashcam video showing Of?cer Jason Van Dyke

they fellowert med ta coverage of the 2014 shooting and whether they. had seen 
?ring 16 shots at Laquan McDonaid, who Was hoisting a knife but apparently Walking away from of?cers.

van Dyke showed up to. court abotrt an hour before the scheduled start of a ?protest. He was Wearing a bulletproof vest and
surrounded by supporters inotud'ing Fraternal Order of Polite President Kevin Graham.

A mix-up over seats kept members of McDonald's family out'ofthe was paoked ntithpoteotialjurors and
journalists. White McDonald?s mother. Tina Hunter, made it inside, "several others Were Shut out.

Outside, about a half dozen cops were stationed on the, roof of the ramp across the street from the courthouse, Helic?ctpters
circled overhead while protesters banged drums and gave speeches.

 

Frank Chapman or the Chicago Alliance Agalnst Racist and Repression loltt the Oh cago? Sun-Time's that the crowd Was
there to demand jasttoe for- the stale teen.
"The only way he?s going-to geljuatlee is. if Jason Vati Dytge is oon?VIote?d ef'th?e murder that he Committed." Chapman

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Trial of Jason Van Dyke, Chicago officer accused of murdering Laqu?an McDonatd. begins with'jury selection I Fox News SIGNS, 10:50 AM
The?case against Van Dyke has polarized much of Chicago.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who announced thisweek he would not-seek a'lhird term. came under intense scrutiny tortryi'rig to block
the release of the dashcam footage. He and his team. of city attorneys. released it only after a? judgeiin 2015, orderedthem to do so.

Van Dyke's attorney. Daniel Herbert, has claimed-ther?is no way his client could-get a lairtrial, arid he pointed the finger at
Emanuel. ?When the mayor of the city in which the pool of jurors that'we would draw from has taken such an adamant stanCe,'it
makes it extremist-y dif?cult for us to get ajuror in here that is not predisposed to-a ?nding of'guilty?'

Herbert added, ?We think that at the end of the day We're going to. present some very-compellingfevldence to demonstrate that it?s
for my etient to. get a fair triat in this case.?-

The grairty'hideo' showed McDonald walking down a Chicago street with a knife in his hand. As he walked across the street with his
back turned away from of?cers, Van Dy'ke Jumped out of his car, pulled his 9mm Smith St Wesson handgun and started shooting.

it tool; him 1.5 seconds Lethe-1'6 shots, some of whom hit McDonald after he atready Was on the ground.

in the days that tottOwed, marry activists and community leaders aocused the marrow and policedepartmentoftrying to cover up the
incident. The ill-.wilt and. mistrust hetw?en the community and the oops'only grew after the. dashcam'video was reteased.

The police unidn claimed McDonald was-holding a knife and approaching officers wheh he was gunned down. However. the graphic

video showed McDonald veering away from of?cers.

The of the shooting 3530 led to a scathing 2017 JusticeDep'artm'ent repert that claimed Chicago p'oiic'e routinely
used exeessive force, viotated civil rights and demonstrated racial bias against blacks,

The investigation into the Chicago PD was one of the largest in the nation. The raped also slammed the city and authorities for
insufficient training'and a failure to hold powethungry officers accountable.

Former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told Fox News at the time that the Justice Department never intervievved
him for its report; He suggested it was because "my narrative doesn?t lit what-they want to say. The potitics is the strongest putt."

Eventually. Emanuel ?red McCarthy.

2017.: FINDS exceestve FORCE uses or POLICE

Also in 2017, three police officers were indicted on charges of. conspiring to cover up the fatal sheeting.

The indictment claimed the veteran cops tried "concealihe true facts of the. events surrounding the ktlling?df Laotian MoDi?inald."

Special prosecutor Patricia H'otm?es said in a statement. that ?the indictment makes clear that these defendants did more than merely
obey an Unof?CEal 'oo'de'ot silence.? She claimed the officerslied aboutwhat took place to prevent independent criminal

investigators from uncovering the truth:

The of?cers-have pleaded not guilty; A bench trial has been scheduled for later this year.

Fox? Ne We' Mitre Arroyo contributed to this arched.

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