The Jason Van Dyke release after serving less than half his sentence for the murder of Laquan McDonald surprised a juror who convicted him.
Van Dyke was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 81 months, or six years and nine months, in prison for shooting and killing McDonald in 2014. But he will have served less than half that when he is released.Neither did the activists and investigative journalists who fought relentless for prosecutors to charge the CPD officer with murder on the job, something they hadn't done in more than half a century.
If Van Dyke returns here to Chicago, it won't be the same city he once patrolled. The department he fired is under a federal consent decree mandating changes in things like transparency, sparked by the fatal shooting he committed and the cover up that followed.
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