Brutal killing of a black teen in Chicago exposes corrupt US justice system: Activist
The brutal killing of a black teenager who was shot 16 times by white police officer in Chicago, Illinois, last year and the time it took the officer to be charged reveals the corrupt law enforcement and crminal justice system in the US, a civil rights activist in New York City says.
“This case exposed a serious and flawed system of social control,” said Joseph Jazz Hayden, Director of Campaign to End the New Jim Crow, a national coalition of organizations and individuals committed to ending the culture of racism and mass incarceration of black people in the US.
“The police are the twin partners of the military,” Hayden told Press TV on Sunday. “Just as our military runs around the world and burns, rapes, mutilates and kills, the police do the same thing.”
“This really exposed how this system of corruption goes and how our [city] government works,” he added.
Chicago, the third largest US city, has been the scene of large protests since Tuesday, when a graphic video of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald was made public by court order.
The police dashcam video shows McDonald being shot 16 times for 15 seconds by officer Jason Van Dyke in October of 2014.
Van Dyke, 37, was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, the same day the video was released. He has been ordered held without bond and faces a maximum possible sentence of life in prison.
Hayden asked how the officer could shoot the teen 16 times when the first two shots knocked him to the ground and he didn’t pose a threat to anybody.
However, the activist pointed out that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was the main culprit because he postponed the conviction of the criminal police for over a year because he was facing reelection and sought to prevent mass protests in the city.
The Chicago demonstrations come amid heightened tensions over several high-profile killings of unarmed African Americans by white police officers in the last two years, which have triggered large-scale protests across the country.
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