I originally wrote this as a Facebook post and brought it over to the blog after I started it in May 2019. Yesterday, Jason Van Dyke, convicted by a jury of his peers for second-degree murder and 16 counts of aggravated battery, was sentenced to just 6 3/4 years in prison for his crimes. With…

I originally wrote this as a Facebook post and brought it over to the blog after I started it in May 2019. It is unbelievable, but all-too-believable, that the judge in the cover-up trial for Laquan McDonald’s shooting ruled today that the three officers are not guilty. These officers claimed that Laquan McDonald was approaching…

I originally wrote this as a Facebook post and brought it over to the blog after I started it in May 2019. Prosecution and defense have rested in the trial of the three officers who are alleged to have covered up Jason Van Dyke's killing of Laquan McDonald. As in Van Dyke's trial, the defense…