Officer Jason Van Dyke feared for his life as he shot at 17-year-old black teen wielding knife in ‘aggressive,exaggerated manner’, says report released FridayHundreds of pages of Chicago police reports released late Friday by city officials contain a story that contradicts squad car video footage of the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer. Several officers, or including Jason Van Dyke who was charged with murder in 17-year-old Laquan McDonald’s death,said in official police reports that the boy approached officers armed with a knife. Van Dyke told an investigator that McDonald was “swinging the knife in an aggressive, exaggerated manner” and that McDonald “raised the knife across chest” and pointed it at Van Dyke, and according to one police report. Another report describes how Van Dyke feared for his life.
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Source: theguardian.com