Daily Commentary – Wednesday, November 25, 2015 – City of Chicago Bracing for Protests After Video is Released

Of a graphic video showing a Chicago police officer shooting and killing a black teen. The officer has been charged with first degree murder.

WARNING – GRAPHIC VIDEO

UPDATE I: Chicago Policeman Facing Murder Charges After Gunning Down Black Teen.

A black teen running down the road was shot sixteen times by a Chicago police officer. He had PCP in his system and a small knife on his person. At no point did he seem to make any threatening moves toward any of the multiple police officers who were on the scene that night. Here we are, months later, and we are seeing the video for the first time.

UPDATE II: Chicago releases dash-cam video of fatal shooting after cop charged with murder:

Hours after a Chicago police officer was ordered held without bond on a first-degree murder charge, the city released a shocking police dash-cam video that captured the white officer opening fire on an African American teen on a Southwest Side street, striking him 16 times and killing him.

The video is about six minutes long and appears to show 17-year-old Laquan McDonald running down the middle of Pulaski Road near 41st Street when Officer Jason Van Dyke, standing next to his SUV, opens fire.

It was released to the media after a late afternoon news conference by Superintendent Garry McCarthy and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

McCarthy said he understood how people will feel watching the video but urged calm.

“The officer in this case took a young man’s life, and he’s going to have to account for his actions,” McCarthy said. “People have a right to be angry, people have a right to protest.”