The police officers who covered up the facts surrounding the shooting death of Laquan McDonald are the victims in the situation, according to the Fraternal Order of Police, which called the officers “scapegoats.”
“These charges are, in our minds, baseless. Our Officers are being made the scapegoats,” Kevin Graham, FOP’s president, said in a statement on behalf of the union. “The decision on whether to release the video of the incident had nothing to do with these Officers.”
“How the special prosecutor can construe a ‘code of silence’ theory defies belief,” Graham added.
