And while attention was focused on the SCOTUS hearings...

[Sandy]

...a jury in Chicago convicted a police officer of second-degree murder, and sixteen counts of aggravated battery in the shooting of an African American teenager in 2014.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html

[Sandy]

So if we are tired of discussing politics, I'll bring this back up to the top, because the news coverage at the time buried it, and it is pretty significant. This was quite a tragedy, in more ways than one. I believe it is the first time since "Black Lives Matter" that a jury came up with a guilty verdict against a police officer.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/laqu ... story.html The trial has dominated the local news for weeks. Media sidebar stories about the police officer, his family and his life, and the shooting victim, his life and his family helped a lot of people see that this whole thing was a lose-lose situation, and that it is time for more than just thoughts and prayers.

Here's the video of the shooting--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykkxV6oUCOs

[Haruo]

What's the Loretta Lynch connection?

[Jon Estes]

[Dave Roberts]

First let me enter a disclaimer. I am the son of a law-enforcement officer, and am certified as a 911-communications officer in Virginia. I don't have the personnel records of the officer involved in this shooting, but firing 16 times at someone armed with a 3-inch knife tells me that he totally lost it under stress. I would almost bank on the fact that this officer was a military veteran (as most of them are), and that he suffered from untreated PTSD. In such a circumstance, we all bear some of the guilt for not making treatment more available to our vets. It has been a pattern for many officer involved shootings that went out of control to have the common element of PTSD.

[Sandy]

[Sandy]

Follow up on the officer, who has been moved to Rock Island.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/jason ... -mcdonald/

[Haruo]

I'm astounded that he was acquitted of Official Misconduct by the same jury that convicted him on all those other things. What does that mean? On the surface it looks like it sends a very undesirable message about proper official conduct on the part of a police officer.

[Sandy]