Officers charged with conspiracy in the 2014 shooting death of Chicago teen Laquan McDonald

On October 20, 2014, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times. Van Dyke is white and McDonald was black. Once the video footage was finally released, it showed that McDonald was walking away from the police with a 4-inch knife in his hand—a fact that contradicted the Van Dyke’s story. Three of his fellow officers wrote up incident reports about the investigation corroborating his story. It turns out, they lied. And now there seems to be enough evidence to charge all three of them on conspiracy charges in McDonald’s death...
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