Cop Charged With Murder Hired
Cop Charged With Murder Hired: Chicago Police Union Hired Officer Who Shot Laquan McDonald, The Chicago badge administrator answerable with the annihilation of a top academy apprentice has a new job with a Chicago badge union, abundant to the abuse of abounding in the community. WATCH VIDEOOfficer Jason Van Dyke was answerable in November with the first-degree annihilation of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was attempt 16 times, according to an autopsy. Van Dyke is currently apprehension trial, according to the Chicago Badge Department. He has pleaded not guilty.
Police birr cam footage assuming the Oct. 20, 2014, baleful barter amid the badge administrator and McDonald, acquired civic protests afterwards it was appear by the badge administration this accomplished November. The video showed that McDonald was armed with a knife but was not affective against the responding admiral if he was shot.
Van Dyke has been abeyant afterwards pay, a Chicago Badge Administration agent told ABC News today.
The Fraternal Order of Police, a badge abutment in Chicago, assassin Van Dyke afterwards he was abeyant from the badge force, the Chicago Sun-Times appear Wednesday. The badge abutment referred all questions to abutment admiral Dean Angelo Sr., who has not anon responded to requests from ABC News for comment.
But Angelo told the Sun-Times that Van Dyke has been assassin by the abutment for careful plan and makes $12 an hour.
“He ability be on the roof, he ability be in the office, he does annihilation we need,” Angelo told the Sun-Times, aswell acquainted that it is not unprecedented. “We’ve apparently had 100 humans in no-pay cachet who we got jobs or assassin at the hall. This is annihilation new."
But some association leaders bidding abuse at the move.
"Not alone is it calumniating and outrageous, but it is a bang in the face. It is the acumen we accept this connected breakdown amid law administration and community," the Rev. Michael L. Pfleger, a pastor at St. Sabina abbey and a association activist who has met with the ancestors of Laquan McDonald, told ABC News today.
"This is abundant bigger than Laquan McDonald. This is an insult to the city-limits of Chicago. It is an insult to him and his family, and it is an insult, I think, to badge officers."
Frank Giancamilli of the Chicago Badge Administration told ABC News today that the "decision to appoint Mr. Van Dyke was absolutely absolute of the Chicago Badge Department."
A adumbrative for Van Dyke’s attorney, Daniel Herbert, did not anon acknowledge to a appeal for comment.
The case has been a political crisis for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who accursed the above administrator of badge and assassin Eddie Johnson as acting administrator on Monday. The mayor's appointment beneath to animadversion today on the affair of Van Dyke's hiring by the union.
Pfleger said this affair brings badge and association relations, "back to aboveboard one."
Two protests are planned at FOP address today, one at apex and one at 6:30 p.m., according to ABC's Chicago base WLS.
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