“I don’t believe any mistakes were made,” Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said regarding the investigation of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald’s police-related shooting death in Chicago.
Alvarez has been in office since 2008. She made the comment last week during a debate with Donna More and Kim Foxx. More and Foxx are both running for state’s attorney in the March election.
McDonald, who is Black, was shot 16 times and killed on Oct. 20, 2014, by Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, who is white. The city withheld video footage of the shooting for over a year until a judge ordered it be released in November. Van Dyke was not charged with murder until 400 days after McDonald’s murder and after the judge compelled the city to make the video public.
