In the hours and days after Chicago Police
Officer Jason Van Dyke shot a 17-year-old boy to death, his fellow cops
allegedly did all they could to make it seem as if he'd done nothing
wrong.
That included falsely stating that the victim
had assaulted the officers, ignoring witnesses whose saw things
differently and giving misleading descriptions of what video footage
showed of the shooting, authorities charged on Tuesday.
As a result of those accounts, the shooting
was deemed justified. But the video footage, which the city resisted
releasing to the public for a year, blew that conclusion apart, exposing
the alleged cover-up and forcing authorities to file murder charges
against Van Dyke.
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