Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy was fired Tuesday amid growing calls for his ouster after a video released last week after more than a year showed the brutal killing of a Black teen by one of his officers.
The video, which the city of Chicago resisted releasing for more than a year and finally released last Tuesday evening only after a court order, shows 17-year-old Laquan McDonald being shot while walking away from police and continuing to be shot while already lying motionless on the ground. Officials said Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shot McDonald 16 times.
Despite the fatal shooting taking place in October 2014, Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder only last week and turned himself in the same day, just hours before the video’s public release.
