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The journalist whose reporting led to Chicago police releasing the gruesome video of Laquan McDonald’s killing faces a new challenge over his sources, the New York Times reported. Jamie Kalven’s 2015 article about the number of times McDonald was shot by police — 16 times — created a firestorm in Chicago, leading to multiple resignations…
A Chicago police officer had pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the shooting of a black teenager, an incident caught on video that has led to protests and calls for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel. In a Chicago courtroom, officer Jason Van Dyke formally pleaded not guilty Tuesday to six charges of murder…
CHICAGO — It all started with a phone call. In early November 2014, Craig Futterman, a civil rights attorney and law professor at the University of Chicago Law School, heard his phone ring. The caller, a source within Chicago law enforcement, told Futterman about the existence of a dash-cam video showing a black teenager being…
