Former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke repeatedly submitted false reviews, made false statements and disobeyed orders from supervisors whereas the Office of the Inspector General was investigating the Laquan McDonald taking pictures, newly launched data from the OIG present.
“Van Dyke’s false reports, false statements, and material omissions all served to exaggerate the threat McDonald posed,” the OIG’s reviews state. “Van Dyke failed to cooperate with the OIG’s investigation, after being properly called upon to do so and in direct violation of a superior’s order, by refusing to answer OIG’s questions in his interview.”
“Van Dyke’s statements can be seen as a deliberate attempt to establish the false narrative that a back-pedaling Van Dyke shot an onrushing McDonald in response to McDonald’s potentially deadly knife attack.”
A number of reviews and reveals have been launched Wednesday by town referring to the 16 officers the OIG really useful be disciplined for his or her roles in overlaying for Van Dyke, who fired the 16 photographs that killed the African American teenager in 2014.
Van Dyke was convicted of second-degree homicide final 12 months and sentenced to greater than six years in jail. Three different officers have been charged with overlaying up the taking pictures, however they have been acquitted.
Though they weren’t criminally charged, three different officers and a sergeant who have been on scene the evening of the taking pictures have been fired earlier this 12 months for allegedly mendacity to cowl up the taking pictures. They have filed lawsuits combating their terminations.
The City Council OK’d the discharge of the reviews final month, additional permitting for Chicago’s company counsel to launch Joe Ferguson’s reviews at any time when they contain “sustained findings regarding conduct that either is associated with a death or is, or may be, a felony as defined in the Illinois Criminal Code and is of a compelling public interest.”
“This ordinance represents a win for transparency and an important step in rebuilding the trust between city government and the residents and communities it serves,” Lightfoot mentioned on the time.
The Fraternal Order of Police, the union representing the CPD’s rank-and-file officers, blasted the reviews’ imminent launch final month as “little more than a political witch hunt.”
“The Fraternal Order of Police has articulated in several instances our strongly-held belief that the Inspector General’s office, particularly under Joe Ferguson, is often little more than a political witch hunt of our members, none more so than the manner by which his office generated criminal indictments of the three officers in connection with the Laquan McDonald shooting. Those officers, tried by special prosecutor Patricia Holmes, were acquitted,” the union mentioned in an announcement final month.
“That the Ethics Committee and the mayor would increase the frequency and magnitude by which cases against the police will be tried in the media, and not in a courtroom, is shocking and disappointing, particularly since the Chicago media itself is so corrupt and so engrained in the anti-police movement.”