'If you believe Black lives matter, now is the time to prove it and call on Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department to do their jobs and bring federal charges against Van Dyke,' says KinaCollinsIL. LaquanMcDonald
"If you believe Black lives matter, now is the time to prove it and call on Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Justice Department to do their jobs and bring federal charges against Van Dyke."Less than three months after Jason Van Dyke was released from prison, U.S. Attorney John Lausch's officeMonday that the former Chicago police officer who murdered 17-year-old Laquan McDonald while on the job in October 2014 will not face federal charges.
"For years, the Black community here in Chicago has protested and cried out for accountability. And for months, we have pleaded with our broken system to bring federal charges against Van Dyke—the same charges that Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty to in December," she noted, referencing the Minneapolis officer who killed George Floyd in May 2020."We've even gotten arrested while trying to ensure that this message gets across.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, both Democrats from Illinois, sent Garland a letter earlier this year calling for an update on the federal investigation. NAACP president Derrick Johnson and Illinois State Conference president Teresa Haley went even further in their letter to Garland, urging him to end the probe and"move forward with appropriate and applicable federal charges.
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