CBS 2 is monitoring the impending release of former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.
for shooting and killing McDonald four years earlier. After initially being placed in custody of IDOC, Van Dyke later was transferred to a federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, in February 2019, but was attacked by his fellow inmates shortly after his arrival, and was later transferred to another federal facility in Otisville, New York, and later was moved to a state prison in Maryland in November 2019.
Van Dyke’s impending release comes as some call for more charges against him. Reverend Jesse Jackson is one of the people, along with Bishop Travis Grant and other members of the Rainbow Push Coalition, calling for federal civil rights charges to be brought against Van Dyke.McDonald’s family has been notified that a release date has been set for this week.
“I know some Chicagoans remain disheartened and angry about Jason Van Dyke’s sentence for the murder of Laquan McDonald. As I said at the time, while the jury reached the correct guilty verdict, the judge’s decision to sentence Van Dyke to only 81 months was and remains a supreme disappointment. I understand why this continues to feel like a miscarriage of justice, especially when many Black and brown men get sentenced to so much more prison time for having committed far lesser crimes.
While I know this moment is disappointing, it should not prevent us from seeing the significant progress Van Dyke’s prosecution and conviction represent. He was the first officer in more than half a century to be convicted of a crime committed purportedly in the line of duty. This prosecution led to historic reforms, including comprehensive legislation that created the first-ever community police oversight body in Chicago, and a consent decree to oversee CPD reform.
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