Another day, another police cover up.
Police in Chicago have failed to give a true timeline as to what happened the night Laquan McDonald was shot 16 times, 9 in the back, by police. New details are emerging that police may have deleted footage from the nearby Burger King video where McDonald was murdered.
McDonald was gunned down near a Burger King, where police responded to a call about a suspicious man with a knife, or so they say. Very few details are actually known about the events that transpired leading up to the young man’s death. However, police claim that the young boy posed a serious threat to their lives, so they had no choice but to draw their weapons and shoot him over a dozen times.
According to the Medical Examiners report, nine of sixteen the shots hit McDonald in the back.
Not only do the police refuse to release the dash camera footage from their patrol car, but they have also confiscated and deleted over an hour of security camera footage that was taken by the Burger King.
Jay Darshane, the District Manager for Burger King said that after the murder, a number of police officers entered the store and demanded the passwords to his security system and access to the security footage. Three hours later the police left, but the crucial video evidence was missing.
“We had no idea they were going to sit there and delete files. I mean we were just trying to help the police officers,” Darshane said.
According to NBC news, the 86-minutes of missing video runs from 9:13 p.m. to 10:39 p.m., which would include the time of the shooting which occurred at 9:50 p.m.
“One witness, this witness told us this was an execution. That’s his word,” attorney Jeff Neslund told NBC News.
This came from the autopsy of 17 y/o #LaquanMcDonald. All from one officer. Laquan was 15-20 feet away. pic.twitter.com/EpKJRKr5QZ
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 15, 2015
Looking at his autopsy report makes me sick to my stomach. To know this poor boy was shot 16 times and cops can’t even give an answer as to ‘why’ is just heartbreaking. How much longer are we going to let police get away with things like this? They haven’t released the dash-cam footage because they know they executed that young boy for no reason at all. It’s not right that police can get access to videos to be able to alter them before the public gets to see what really happened. I sure hope everything police in Chicago have done to cover up this MURDER of Laquan McDonald comes to light. His family deserves answers and he deserves justice.