CHICAGO MODESTLY COVERS UP

Whistleblowers are good for business. Especially if the business in question is governmental, as they keep the lizards in line. The Laquan McDonald case in Chicago demonstrates why this is important.

The risks that whistle-blowers take on our behalf illuminate how perfectly rotten most of government is, and has often been.


Please note that the people responsible for the Chicago cover-up are, largely, still in power, and still feeding at the public trough. Which, of course, is typical. Americans justifiably expect no less from politicians and bureaucrats, and only want Fox News to tell them how to think.
Far be it from us to demand real change.
That would be radical.


Factual statement: Laquan McDonald was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer.

[SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34977807.]


Factual statement: Chicago police shot 240 people over a four-year span, or about one per week.
Seventy of those people died and of those, two-thirds were African American. The city's Independent Police Review Authority has investigated 400 police shootings since 2007 and found only one incident to be unjustified.


Assertion: "With no apparent provocation - the boy was shying away rather than lunging toward them - a white male officer shot Laquan, who fell to the ground; after a pause, as the boy writhed on the ground, the officer fired repeatedly into his body."


Factual statement plus important quote: Two months after that, Kalven obtained a copy of McDonald's autopsy report. The document that called into serious question the police description of what happened.
"The most salient aspect was 16 independent gunshot wounds front and back," says Kalven. "There was no way to square that information with the official narrative."


Factual statement: Hours later, the tape was released. It showed exactly what the whistleblower described to Futterman 13 months earlier. McDonald walks down the middle of the street holding a 3-inch blade in one hand. He encounters police officers, but is moving away from them when Van Dyke opens fire, shooting McDonald 16 times.

[All from this BBC article: How a whistleblower brought down Chicago police chief.]


I find it very hard to believe that, given the circumstances as outlined, this was anything else than a brutal execution, on par with gangland slaughter. By a white officer.

There are two things that make me very glad:

I am not a teenage black kid;

I am not in Chicago.


OFFICER JASON VAN DYKE

In fact, knowing that the Chicago Police Department shelters savages and psychopaths, there is almost no chance in hell that I'll ever go anywhere near the place.
I've already seen all of Chicago that I will ever need to see in the movie 'The Blues Brothers'.

Why is it that everytime I hear about the Chicago Police, their ass is showing?



More innocent Americans are killed by police than by terrorists.


But "innocence" is, actually, quite immaterial.


Why are so many killed?



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