Former Chicago police officer Jason VanDyke was sentenced to 6 ¾ years in prison for the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
A jury has convicted Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke of second degree murder for the shooting of Laquan McDonald.
After a 13 month probe, a new Department of Justice report found that the Chicago police routinely used excessive force and must reform.
A 56-year-old mother of five and a 19-year-old college student suffered fatal gun shots by Chicago police.
City leaders have agreed to pay out $5 million dollars to the family of a teenager who was shot 16 times last fall by Chicago police
Since 1999, nearly 90 unarmed people have been shot and killed by local police departments, at least 66 of those people were Black