Futterman: Little Hope of Ending Police Code of Silence Without Court Oversight
Prosecutor: No more indictments in Laquan McDonald shooting
A grand jury that indicted three Chicago police officers on charges that they conspired to cover up what happened when a fellow officer fatally shot black teen Laquan McDonald has disbanded without indicting anyone else in the department, the special prosecutor announced Tuesday.
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"I don't want to undermine the indictments that were first issued in this case because they were historic, something that has never happened before, but the official narrative was approved by the entire chain of command that knew it was a lie (because) they had the video and watched the video within hours of the shooting" said Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago law professor who has studied the department and was part of the legal team that fought the city over its refusal to release the video.
Futterman said Tuesday's announcement "underscores for me there is little hope in bringing end to code of silence without vigorous and sustained court oversight" of the police force.
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