{"id":178639,"date":"2018-10-05T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/05\/guilty-guilty-guilty-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:04:00","slug":"guilty-guilty-guilty-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/10\/05\/guilty-guilty-guilty-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8j808.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/8j808.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a>Jason Van Dyke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/ct-met-laquan-mcdonald-jason-van-dyke-verdict-20181005-story.html\">has been convicted of second-degree murder for the shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I am pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a very long time since a white cop has been convicted for shooting a black kid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke was convicted Friday of second-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, marking a stunning end to a racially tinged case that roiled the city when now-infamous police dashboard camera video of the shooting was released three years ago by court order.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Van Dyke is the first Chicago police officer in half a century to be found guilty of murder for an on-duty shooting. He faces a minimum of six years in prison when he is sentenced by Judge Vincent Gaughan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The jury deliberated for about 7\u00bd hours before finding Van Dyke guilty of second-degree murder instead of the first-degree charge on which he was indicted.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>7\u00bd hours to convict a cop is a very short deliberation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The veteran officer also was convicted of all 16 counts of aggravated battery for each shot he fired at McDonald. The jury acquitted him, however, of a single count of official misconduct.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This Van Dyke needs to be sentenced as if he were a black teen who shot a white cop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Van Dyke has been convicted of second-degree murder for the shooting of Laquan McDonald in Chicago. I am pleasantly surprised. It&#8217;s been a very long time since a white cop has been convicted for shooting a black kid: Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke was convicted Friday of second-degree murder in the death of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[407,526,398],"class_list":["post-178639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-justice","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}