No more members of the Chicago Police Department will be indicted by the grand jury that was impaneled to investigate the cover-up of the shooting of Laquan McDonald in October 2014.

In a statement Tuesday morning, Special Prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes said the grand jury, impaneled in November 2016, has been discharged.

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Craig Futterman, a University of Chicago Law School professor who was part of the effort to have a special prosecutor probe the handling of the McDonald investigation, said the lack of additional indictments “highlights the need for there to be sustained court oversight if this culture is ever going to change.”

“It’s deeply disappointing and it shows, all too powerfully, the power of that code of silence,” Futterman said. “You have a situation where the officers on the scene lied and lied as a part of standard procedure.”

“You have a case in which this video was reviewed within 24 to 48 hours, up the entire chain of command, including the superintendent, and all signed off and approved that lie,” Futterman added.

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