CRY!
State charges so the President can't pardon him but he's currently in a Federal prison. The administration must take steps to keep him safe there and investigate and if necessary punish any prison officials that let this happen. It makes me sick this man is imprisoned for shooting a PCP freak who came at him with a knife. The world is a better place without Laquan "you'd think he walked around in a cap and gown" McDonald and Chicago streets are less safe without Officer Van Dyke.
Ping
I may have hit on something.
I disagree with that theory. The officers are taught to be a bunch of tattle tails, and tell on each other. Many staff (not all) may not even know who the guy is, but as you say, if people deliberately let the guy get assaulted or killed, they face serious problems. The best thing might be loss of job and pension. The worst thing, is they might end up being inmates themselves. The chances of a big conspiracy, to “get” this guy, are slim. There are just too many people watching. All it would take, would be one staff member, to spill the beans, and the whole conspiracy comes crashing down.
In the joints I was in, there are plenty of places, where the inmates can “do” someone, without being seen.
It sounds like this guy may have been railroaded, and sacrificed on the altar of PC. Too bad.
I grew up there. A badge is the equivalent of a hunting license. An Illinois DA needs all the LEOs on his side he can get.
(Yes, I'm biased. I've bought two cops, an alderman and a traffic court judge, in Chicago.)
“...received a dose of prison justice...”
Press are scum.
The consequences and participants are tragedies that linger 24/7/52 until death. That kid’s Mom, the cop and his wife, that guy who founded the successful tech co.and was booted for PC, even that Chik-fil-et guy.. maybe he’s paid enough? Even Monica Blewklinski.. her life was taken. (We’re all flawed.)
I do not go for this destroying stuff.
Just wait till we see FBI agent convicts in prison. They would have an even shorter half life.
Sniveling @-hole.
It’s amazing how many people behaved badly in this one case:
Laquan McDonald (the “victim”) was reported to police as breaking into cars and holding a knife, and he used that knife to damage the tires and windshield of a responding police car before ignoring police commands.
Officer Jason Van Dyke shot the thug once while the thug was still holding the knife but moving away, and then shot that loser fifteen more times (nine of them in the back) while the criminal was on the ground.
Multiple police reports backed up the shooting, with variants of “the thug lunged with the knife”.
Three of the five police videos of the shooting are missing (and the released video is missing the audio that should have been recorded), and the Burger King video of that evening has a gap when the shooting occurred in front of their restaurant.
And of course, the professional racists on the left had a field day with this case. I doubt that they knew (or cared) just how far this cop had gone over the line.
I could go on, but the bottom line is there are no good guys on either side. And now our prison system isn’t doing its job - they are not warehousing that bad cop safely.
In addition to the second degree murder they also convicted him of 16 counts of aggravated assault, one for each bullet. That tells you all you need to know. Do they charge ever gang banger with a separate charge for each bullet? I think not.
If he did,in fact,kill somebody without good reason then maybe he deserves a bit of jailhouse justice.
“A dose of prison justice” So virtual lynchings are ok in prison so long as the victim is white and he is there for a crime against a black?
Why would you even consider pardoning a man convicted of shooting someone 16 times?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky said: “The degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.”
I don’t cheer prison rape, and I don’t cheer when pedophiles get beaten in prison. If a crime is bad enough, then give the criminal the death penalty. Prison is supposed to suppress the worst instincts of criminals, not promote them.
This is BS and it’s certainly not justice as the lying media suggested. This is like what happens in Turkish or Mexican prisons where no one gives two sh*t holes.
And they put him in the general population? WTF? Even if the former cop requested it, it should have never happened.
Should have sent him to Oxford where I might have visited him he attended the same church and school my family helped established in Chicago.