Washington Post: Prosecutors say no criminal charges against
Chicago police officer who fatally shot Ronald Johnson
By Mark Berman December 7, 2015 at 1:36 PM
Prosecutors in Chicago
will not file criminal charges against a police officer who shot and killed a
black man last year, an incident that occurred a week before a different fatal shooting that brought national scrutiny
to Chicago’s police force, officials said Monday.
The decision was
announced by Anita Alvarez, the state’s attorney for Cook County, Ill.,
and came on the heels of the Justice Department announcing plans for a broad civil-rights investigation into the Chicago Police
Department.
Alvarez held a lengthy
news conference Monday to announce the decision, going over details of the
investigation, what police and witnesses said and playing a dashboard camera
video that captured a portion of the incident.
George Hernandez, a
Chicago police officer, shot and killed Ronald Johnson III in October 2014, the
week before a different officer shot and killed Laquan McDonald, a black
17-year-old.
The fatal shooting of McDonald was captured in a graphic dashboard camera video that was released last month, drawing attention to Chicago at a time of intense national focus on how police officers use deadly force.
The fatal shooting of McDonald was captured in a graphic dashboard camera video that was released last month, drawing attention to Chicago at a time of intense national focus on how police officers use deadly force.
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