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November 30, 2015

Chicago Protesters Demand Resignation of Top Officials over Laquan McDonald Case 
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Protests continue in Chicago over the fatal police shooting of
17-year-old African American teen Laquan Mc Donald. Officer Jason Van
Dyke was indicted for murder last week just as police finally released
video footage of him shooting Mc Donald 16 times more than a year ago.
Police had claimed Laquan Mc Donald lunged at Van Dyke with a small
knife, but the video shows him posing no threat and running many feet
away. Protests have been held daily since the video was released. In a
Black Friday action targeting a busy shopping district, the Reverend
Jesse Jackson joined demonstrators calling for the resignation of
Chicago's police superintendent and a top prosecutor.

Rev. Jesse Jackson: "We need a new police department and a new chief. We
also need a special prosecutor to find out who found out about the tapes
and suppressed them for 13 months. And until change takes place there
will be more of it. There will be more boycotts and the protests on the
mass economic withdrawal will escalate."
Jay Darshane, the manager of a Burger King that may have captured
surveillance video of the shooting, says he's testified before a Grand
Jury about police potentially deleting the footage. Eighty-six minutes
of the surveillance video was erased, including the portion capturing
the time of the shooting.

 

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