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Friday, November 27, 2015
New Audio With Footage Released Of The Laquan McDonald Murder By Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke Is Even More Infuriating (Video)
New footage has been released of the murder of 17-year-old
Laquan McDonald by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke and it
contains the sound that was scrubbed from the original video.
Chicago Mayor and former Obama Administration alum, Rahm
Emanuel, originally stated at a press conference that the
dashcam video of McDonald's shooting has no sound. However,
someone obtained a version of the dashcam video with sound and
leaked it.
Original video of Laquan
McDonald murder was released without sound:
The version of the video with audio is that much worse and
more infuriating, as you hear bullets firing from Van Dyke's
gun, the officer reloading and shooting again, in what was a
preventable murder based in police brutality.
The audio is jarring, as the shots just kept ringing out, one
after another, leaving the underage teen dead in a pool of his
own blood. The video reveals after the first two shots McDonald was
incapacitated and on the ground. However, officer Van Dyke chose
to fire 14 more bullets in an act of excessive force.
A still from the dashcam video
of Laquan McDonald's shooting
Van Dyke, a known racist, showed no regard for the young
black teen's life. Regardless of what racists think, everyone
has rights. The court system is not set up to allow police
officers to use excessive force in determining the death penalty
on a public street. The misconduct McDonald is accused of, was a
misdemeanor, not worthy of Van Dyke playing judge, jury and
executioner ending the teen's life.
Laquan McDonald
The city of Chicago is under fire for covering up the crimes.
For a year they did everything to suppress the case, refusing to
release videos and files that illustrate McDonald was
senselessly murdered in an act that was not self-defense. It
took a court judge to order the city of Chicago's government to
release the tape, as they kept resisting legal requests. In
doing so, the government co-signed the crimes via the cover up
that constitutes corruption. It's one thing when an employee
does something crooked, but when it is brought to the
government's attention, if they go along with it, that is
corruption and a cover up, making them accomplices to crime. It
is the equivalent of stating you agree with something evil that
was perpetrated against someone.
Police officer Jason Van Dyke
Previously, the Judiciary Report proposed legislative lines
be drafted on a congressional level (federal) legally compelling
police officers to exercise restraint in cases when confronting
suspects, meaning shooting unarmed people to death who are
trying to flee from you should never be an option (Congress Needs To Enact Legislative Guidelines Regarding Police
Brutality).
