“I think this will be our Ferguson.”
Sitting in his office at the University of Chicago Law School just
over a year ago, attorney and professor Craig Futterman was talking
about a video almost no one had seen. It was a dashboard-camera
recording of a white Chicago police officer killing a black teenager.
The details, then still unconfirmed, rang with an ominous echo of the
police shooting of Michael Brown, whose death in a Missouri street
sparked weeks of protest.
Futterman, who runs the university’s
Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project, hadn’t seen the video
yet either; but he’d been pushing the city to make it public for months,
ever since a confidential source had called and described it to him.
“An execution,” Futterman’s source had called it. He searched for his
own words. Finally he said simply, “This kid, his name is Laquan
McDonald.”
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