Chicago on Edge as Officer Who Shot Laquan McDonald 16 Times Faces Trial

CHICAGO — The grainy dash camera video showed a black 17-year-old named Laquan McDonald writhing in the street as Jason Van Dyke, a white Chicago police officer, fired bullet after bullet into him. In die einde, the autopsy showed, Laquan was shot 16 keer. That police footage and a lengthy effort to keep it from the public came to define the tenure of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and led to a painful, prolonged reckoning for this city and its leaders. Op Dinsdag, oor 22 hours before the scheduled start of jury selection in Officer Van Dyke’s murder trial, Mnr. Emanuel announced that he would not seek re-election in February.

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