The white Chicago police officer who shot black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times in an encounter captured on dashcam video has been found guilty of second-degree murder.
After a second day of deliberation, the jury brought a verdict that eased anxieties about public disturbance in a city struggling to overcome racial tension between black communities and a predominantly white police force.
The verdict will be greeted as a measure of justice by the black community. As demonstrators gathered outside the court, listening to the verdict on cell phones, one woman said: “Thank you, Jesus.” There were cries of “Yes!”
But the verdict was inevitably divisive. Chris Southwood, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police, claimed the jury had been “duped” and said police had been “stabbed in the back” by “political operatives” in a “sham trial and shameful verdict”.
Police were put on 12-hour shifts to bolster available numbers by up to 4,000. However, officers will not be in riot gear, because the force is anxious not to send a message that they are ready for a fight, Supt Eddie Johnson told the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Right. And monitor ’em twice a year.
16 shots suggest fear shooting. 16 hits suggest insanity.
Usually one round will take you out of the fight. Sixteen? Seems like some of that stuff Preston James writes about has some legs.
16 times?! If it was glock-17, the last bullet is for his own head. Brutality and barbarian. I got nothing 2 add…
16 times means he emptied the gun into him – 15 rounds in the magazine, you can carry it with a 16th round in the chamber, which is safe with a Glock due to the way the safety works.
Ian, it is clear. I know that the quantity of the rounds in glock magazine differs, depending on a type or model.
By, the way, i’d put this cop in octogon in Las Vegas with Habib Nurmagomedov to pay for everything. Instead of Connor McGregor.
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