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    Chicago officer sentenced for murdering black teen Laquan McDonald

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46928035

    Ex-Chicago policeman Jason Van Dyke has been sentenced to six years and nine months in jail for the 2014 killing of black teenager Laquan McDonald.
    Video of Van Dyke firing repeatedly at the 17-year-old was released a year later, and led to street protests.
    During Friday's hearing, residents told of alleged past mistreatment at the hands of the officer.
    One witness told the court Van Dyke, 40, had put him in a stranglehold after he refused to spit out a cough drop.
    Another claimed that he had pushed a gun to his head as he was leaving a petrol station, and screamed racist epithets in his face.

    Van Dyke's brother-in-law, who is black, also took the stand to say that he had never known the former policeman to be a "racist cop".
    After a trial in October, Van Dyke was found guilty of murder as well as 16 counts of aggravated battery - one charge for each shot he fired at McDonald.
    Dashcam video of the incident showed McDonald, who was high on the PCP drug at the time, refusing the officer's command to drop a knife as he walked down the street.
    Friday's sentence comes one day after three former and current policemen who were accused of helping to cover up the killing were found not guilty by a different Chicago judge.
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    6 years for murder, isn't that kind of light?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    6 years for murder, isn't that kind of light?
    Yeah, he should have been disemboweled, strangled, drawn and quartered and beheaded.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    6 years for murder, isn't that kind of light?
    Would seem that way
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    The victim was high on PCP, that probably played in sentencing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    6 years for murder, isn't that kind of light?
    That's probably light for 16 counts of battery! It must of been nanslaughter or something. Maybe they figured the guy just panicked. I don't know but there are people who get more time for having the wrong drug of choice!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    The victim was high on PCP, that probably played in sentencing.
    Admit I know little of the circumstances.
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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    That's probably light for 16 counts of battery! It must of been nanslaughter or something. Maybe they figured the guy just panicked. I don't know but there are people who get more time for having the wrong drug of choice!
    "16 counts of aggravated battery - one charge for each shot he fired at McDonald."
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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    Yeah, he should have been disemboweled, strangled, drawn and quartered and beheaded.


    I think there's a little room between that and just six years. Like say 20 years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    "16 counts of aggravated battery - one charge for each shot he fired at McDonald."
    Right , I would think shooting someone 16 times even if he had lived would bring more than 6 years

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