Activists and protesters gathered downtown Thursday after former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014, was released from custody.
"It's too many times that our system is supposed to be protecting us, and it doesn’t work out like that," said Mark Franklin, who attended the protest downtown. "Nobody is really being held accountable, and nobody knows who to work with and who to talk to, and it’s just a shame, and Chicago has been like this for a while and many places have been like this.
"It just reinforces this feeling of hopelessness in African American communities, and reinforces the thought that police can continue their oppressive behavior in those communities and be either exonerated or given light sentences," said Chico Tillmon, a senior research fellow at the University of Chicago Crime Lab and a former gang member.
A protest outside Chicago’s Federal Plaza is growing after the early release of Jason Van Dyke. FOX 32’s legal analyst Karen Conti joined FOX 32 to talk about potential federal charges against the former Chicago cop.
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