Justice for LaQuan McDonald, a 17-year-old black teenager doesn’t stop with the firing of Jason Van Dyke, a white police officer charged with his murder, but it should also include the investigation of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel for suppression of evidence, withholding the video showing Van Dyke shooting McDonald on October 20, 2014.
McDonald was shot once as he was walking away from the Van Dyke, and fifteen times as he lay in the middle of the street. The City of Chicago delay of the 13-month video may have connections to a close mayoral election that Emanuel survived. As the top politician in the windy city he may hold sway as to when or if the video should be released. If the scandal would have broken prior to the April 2015 elections, it’s a good possibility he would have lost. It smacks dead of a cover-up involving the Mayor.
Emanuel fired police chief Garry F. McCarthy for failing to release the video depicting the death of McDonald at the hands of Van Dyke. The six minute dash-cam dispute the officers statement that McDonald lunged at them. According to the officers McDonald was breaking into vehicles at a nearby Burger King parking lot.
Usually when evidence is available showing officers unlawfully killing blacks, police chiefs and other city officials city sit on evidence until the furor dissipates. But their was no letting up for McCarthy after more than a year of refusing to release the video, a judge ordered it released on November 24 2015, after a journalist requested it under The Freedom of Information Act.
Burger King surveillance video may have been tampered with
Chicago officials released videos from the Burger King near the shooting and it shows from several camera angles that about 80 minutes may have been erased, according to reports attributed to the Chicago Tribune. Van Dyke is charged with first degree murder.
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