Chicago Cop Faces Murder Charge for Shooting Black Teen 16 Times
A white Chicago policeman has been charged with first degree murder after shooting a black teenager 16 times in 2014. In an incident that has since stirred racial tensions, authorities approached...
View ArticleChicago PD Releases Video of Officer Repeatedly Shooting Black Teen
The Chicago Police Department tonight released video showing Officer Jason Van Dyke repeatedly shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. The shooting took place on October 20th, 2014, and Van Dyke had...
View ArticleChicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Video: ‘It Is Essential That We Remain Peaceful’
Before Chicago police released the video of an officer repeatedly shooting a 17-year-old, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Police Chief Garry McCarthy held a press conference to urge calm. Officer Jason Van Dyke...
View ArticleProtesters Gather in Chicago After Video Released of Police Shooting
Protesters immediately took to the streets in Chicago after the police department released video of an officer repeatedly shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald: Protestors take to the streets of Chicago...
View Article‘You Can’t Just Talk Nonsense!’ CNN Guests Clash Over Police Shooting ‘Epidemic’
CNN analysts Sunny Hostin and Harry Houck threw down tonight over whether police shootings are an “epidemic” in the wake of video released of a Chicago officer shooting a black teenager. Hostin said...
View ArticleCNN Analyst Compares Laquan McDonald Shooting to Fallujah
A CNN law enforcement analyst compared the shooting death of a black teenager in Chicago by a white police officer to armed combat in the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Carol Costello brought on freelance...
View ArticleHillary Calls for Justice for Laquan McDonald’s Death: ‘We Cannot Go On Like...
Hillary Clinton jumped on the bandwagon today when she released a statement on Twitter bemoaning the brutal death of Laquan McDonald. Statement of Hillary Clinton on the shooting of Laquan McDonald:...
View ArticleObama Thanks His Hometown for Keeping the Laquan McDonald Protests Peaceful
President Obama took to Facebook a short while ago to address the black teen whose brutal death has been a major source of racial contention towards police over the past few days: Like many Americans,...
View ArticleWATCH LIVE: Protests Continue in Chicago for Laquan McDonald
Protesters are still demonstrating on the streets of Chicago tonight in response to the brutal video showing the death of Laquan McDonald. Portesters continue to chant “16 shots,” and calls for Jason...
View ArticlePolice Claim Dashcams Didn’t Pick Up Audio of Chicago Shooting Because of...
Additional video has come out from police dashcams on the night of Laquan McDonald‘s shooting. On Tuesday night, the Chicago police released disturbing video of Officer Jason Van Dyke repeatedly...
View ArticleProtesters for Laquan McDonald Plan Chicago March to Disrupt Black Friday
As Black Friday continues to promote the holidays with rampant consumerism and violent frenzies across America, the shopping areas of Chicago are facing additional pressure as protests continue over...
View ArticleFox Anchor: Is Media Too ‘Intimidated’ by Chicago Protesters to Ask Tough...
During a segment on Chicago Black Friday protests over the police shooting of Laquan McDonald, Fox News anchor Leland Vittert––filling in for Jon Scott on Happening Now––asked if the mainstream media...
View ArticleBurger King Manager Near Site of Laquan McDonald Shooting: Police Erased...
The manager of a Burger King yards away from where Laquan McDonald was shot by officer Jason Van Dyke believes that police officers erased the store’s surveillance video. Jay Darshane told The Chicago...
View ArticleBREAKING: Chicago Police Chief Fired
As racial justice protests continue in Chicago over the death of Laquan McDonald, the demonstrations have claimed their first bureaucratic victim: the chief of police. The Chicago Sun-Times reported...
View ArticleMegyn Kelly: Obama Slow to Act on Chicago Because Mayor’s a Dem, Former Obama...
Megyn Kelly tonight brought up the charge that President Obama has been slow to respond to the Laquan McDonald shooting in Chicago because the city is run not just by a Democrat, but by his former...
View ArticleJustice Department to Investigate Chicago Police for Laquan McDonald’s Death
The renewed furor over the murder of Laquan McDonald triggered the latest in a series of protests for racial justice across the city last month. Now, reports say that the Justice Department will launch...
View ArticleNew Audio Reveals Officers Requested Help to Subdue Laquan McDonald Before...
A FOIA request freed up a new audio file from the night Laquan McDonald died, and it turns out, police officers requested non-lethal backup to subdue the black teen before a cop shot him to death....
View ArticleWATCH LIVE: Protesters March Through the Streets of Chicago on Christmas Eve
Protesters have taken to the streets in Chicago to again voice their outrage over the police shooting of Laquan McDonald. Protests initially broke out after video was released weeks ago of the...
View ArticleEmails Show Coordination Between Chicago PD, Mayor’s Office Over Laquan...
Thousands of emails were released yesterday after multiple requests from the press about communications between the Chicago police and Mayor Rahm Emanuel‘s office over the death of Laquan McDonald....
View ArticleNews Station Somehow Uses McDonald’s Logo When Covering Laquan McDonald Case
Today, the case against the officer who shot and killed black teen Laquan McDonald went to court, which has been a long time coming. A video of Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times was...
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