Editorial: The Laquan McDonald shooting verdict is welcome — but we can't prosecute our way out of bad police work
by Los Angeles Times
Oct 07, 2018
3 minutes
A police officer who kills without sufficient cause should be held accountable, so there is reason to feel some satisfaction and relief that a jury on Friday found Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke guilty of murder and aggravated battery in the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014.
Satisfaction, because it had long seemed that the deck in this case was stacked against justice. Chicago Police Department reports
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