Chicago Cop Expected to Be Charged for Killing 17-Year-Old
(CHICAGO)—A charge of murder is expected to be filed against a white Chicago police officer accused of shooting a black teenager 16 times, just a day ahead of a deadline by which a judge has ordered...
View ArticleChicago Officer Who Fatally Shot Teenager Charged With First-Degree Murder
Correction appended, Nov. 24 The Chicago police officer who was allegedly videotaped shooting 17-year old Laquan McDonald more than a dozen times was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, making...
View ArticleVideo of Chicago Police Shooting Released
(CHICAGO) — A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, hours before the city released a video of the killing that many...
View ArticleChicago Releases Video of Laquan McDonald Shooting
The Chicago Police Department released video Tuesday showing the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, a black teenager who was shot 16 times by a white officer last year. The deadly incident...
View ArticleChicago Awaits More Protests Over Police Shooting
(CHICAGO) — The white officer who shot a black Chicago teen 16 times has been charged with murder and jailed. The graphic video of the slaying has been made public. And in the hours after the footage...
View ArticleProtesters Plan to Target Chicago’s Main Shopping Area on Black Friday
(CHICAGO) — Small groups of demonstrators gathered throughout the day Wednesday to protest the death of a black teen shot 16 times by a white police officer, and they urged supporters to join them in...
View ArticleChicago Protesters Over Laquan McDonald’s Shooting Aim to Shut Down Black Friday
(CHICAGO) — After days of protests in Chicago since the release of a video showing a black teenager shot 16 times by a white police officer, demonstrators were poised to disrupt Black Friday shopping...
View ArticleProtest Over Chicago Teen’s Shooting Disrupts Black Friday Shopping
(CHICAGO) — Demonstrators angry about the killing of a black teenager who was shot 16 times by a white police officer last year marched through the streets and disrupted Black Friday shopping in...
View ArticleUniversity of Chicago at Hyde Park Campus to Close on Monday Due to Threat
The University of Chicago will cancel all classes and events and close all facilities on its Hyde Park campus Monday, on the advice of counterterrorism officials, after an anonymous individual...
View ArticleChicago Police Chief Fired Following Laquan McDonald Shooting
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy Tuesday following the handling and release of a controversial video showing a white Chicago officer shooting a black 17-year-old 16...
View ArticleChicago Mayor Says He Won’t Resign
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday that he would not resign following criticism of how his administration has handled the shooting death of a black teenager last year by a white officer. In his...
View ArticleChicago Will Release Another Video Showing Police Shooting Black Man
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will support the release of a video showing a police officer shooting a 25-year-old black man in 2014, the mayor said Thursday. The decision is a reversal for the city which...
View ArticleChicago Police Reports Differ From Video of Laquan McDonald Shooting
(CHICAGO) — Police officers who watched a colleague shoot a black Chicago teenager 16 times filed reports depicting a very different version of events than what dashcam footage showed, portraying the...
View ArticleJustice Department Expected to Open Probe of Chicago Police Department
CHICAGO — The Justice Department is expected to announce this week a civil rights investigation of the Chicago Police Department similar to probes of police departments in Baltimore and Ferguson,...
View ArticleDepartment Of Justice Will Investigate Chicago Police
(CHICAGO) — The Justice Department will investigate the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Monday, a move that comes nearly two weeks...
View ArticleNo Charges Against Chicago Officer Who Shot Black Man in Back
The Chicago officer who fatally shot a 25-year-old black man in the back last year will not be charged in his death, an Illinois state’s attorney said Monday. Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez...
View ArticleChicago Mayor Says Shooting Brought City to an ‘Inflection Point’
CHICAGO — With federal agents preparing to scrutinize Chicago’s police practices in a wide-ranging civil rights investigation, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is defending measures the city has already taken in the...
View ArticleWatch a Shirtless Runner Turn a Weather Report Into His Own Personal Dating Ad
Temperatures in Chicago have been unseasonably high recently, but when the WGN 9 team interviewed a local runner during a weather report, they turned up the heat even more. The station pulled Ethan...
View ArticleThis Could Be the Next Chicago Police Shooting Video to Roil the City
The day after black teenager Cedrick Chatman was fatally shot by a white Chicago Police Department officer in January 2013, lawyer Brian Coffman got a telephone call. It was the 17-year-old’s...
View ArticleOfficer Asked for Taser Before Laquan McDonald Shooting
(CHICAGO) — Recordings of Chicago police radio traffic surrounding the fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white officer show at least one responding officer asked for a Taser and — given that...
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