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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

With Chicago set to release video of a black youth’s death, a police officer was charged with murder

With Chicago set to release video of a black youth’s death, a police officer was charged with murder

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 11:21 AM EST


As this city prepared to make public a video from the fatal shooting of a black 17-year-old by a white Chicago police officer, a state prosecutor charged the officer with first-degree murder on Tuesday.
The charges against Officer Jason Van Dyke come more than a year after the shooting, but only days after a judge ordered Chicago officials to release the video from the shooting, captured by a dashboard camera in a police car. The judge had ruled that the video, described by some who have seen it as graphic and deeply disturbing, must be released by Wednesday.
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