Tamir Rice was playing with a toy.
Laquan McDonald was trying to keep warm
George Floyd accidentally passed a fake $20.00. (Something you've probably done and never knew it.)
These were not master criminals.
First, why do you think my name is "Joel"? It's Joe, short for Joseph.
Nothing those people listed did merited death. Nothing Good or Pretti did merited killing them, either.
A "toy" that had been modified to look like a real gun. He removed the orange barrel tip required by law. Floyd was a violent predator who had menaced his girlfriend and held a gun to the belly of a pregnant woman AND was combative with the police AFTER trying to kick out the windows of the patrol car he had been put into. From Wikki:
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The video of the shooting was initially withheld from the public for more than a year, a delay which later sparked criticism.<a href="
Murder of Laquan McDonald - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>6<span>]</span></a> On November 24, 2015, thirteen months after the shooting, a court ordered the police to release a dash cam video of the shooting. It showed that McDonald was walking away from the police when he was shot 16 times by Officer Van Dyke. That same day, Van Dyke was charged with
first-degree murder, and was initially held without bail at the
Cook County Jail.<a href="
Murder of Laquan McDonald - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>7<span>]</span></a> He was released on bail on November 30.<a href="
Murder of Laquan McDonald - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>8<span>]</span></a> The city reached a settlement with McDonald's family for $5 million in April 2015. On October 5, 2018, Van Dyke was found guilty of
second-degree murder, as well as 16 counts of
aggravated battery with a firearm.<a href="
Murder of Laquan McDonald - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>9<span>]</span></a> Van Dyke was sentenced to prison in January 2019 and was released early for good behavior in February 2022.
Protests followed the murder of McDonald, criticizing the lack of transparency from the
Rahm Emanuel administration, demanding changes in police and judicial procedures and
police oversight, and for the dismissal or resignation of city and county officials including the mayor. For several months, Emanuel had claimed that making the video public would jeopardize a federal investigation into the shooting and had resisted allowing the video to be shown to the public; however, the Justice Department never raised any issues with the public release of the footage.<a href="
Murder of Laquan McDonald - Wikipedia"><span>[</span>10<span>]</span></a> Rahm Emanuel had already won a second term in 2015 as
Mayor of Chicago (prior to the release of the dash cam video), but Cook County State's Attorney
Anita Alvarez lost her bid for reelection in 2016."
Rham Emanual was a prominent Democrat and had been Obama's Chief of Staff. He is the one that tried to cover up the shooting.