Police Killings And The DOJ
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🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The NAACP is urging the Justice Department to bring federal civil rights charges against Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who murdered 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014. Zooming out, it's not uncommon for people to look to the federal justice system when state courts or local law enforcement decline to hold police officers responsible in cases like these. The same avenues were pursued in the case of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who also was killed by police in 2014, though the DOJ has announced it will not reopen an investigation into that shooting.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, February 2nd. I'm Gideon Resinc. |
| 0:08.6 | And I'm Josie Duffy Rice, and this is What a Day. |
| 0:11.6 | The podcast, Living in Fear of the Groundhog's Grudded Prediction. |
| 0:15.4 | I've said it about Ratatouille, and I will say it again here. |
| 0:18.1 | Rodents should not hold this much power. It is not right. |
| 0:21.7 | It's true. First, you let them make a little soup, and the next thing you know, they're |
| 0:25.9 | opening the door for the next bomb cyclone. |
| 0:31.2 | On Zayshow, Russian President Vladimir Putin finally speaks after a mass in troops near |
| 0:35.2 | the border of Ukraine, plus Native American tribes reach a settlement with opioid distributors. |
| 0:40.4 | But first, yesterday the NAACP urged the Justice Department to bring federal civil rights |
| 0:44.8 | charges against Jason Van Dyke, the Chicago police officer who murdered 17-year-old Laquan |
| 0:49.3 | McDonald in 2014, shooting him 16 times in the back. |
| 0:54.2 | The request comes just one day after DOJ announced it would not reopen the federal investigation |
| 0:58.7 | into the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who is also shot to death by police in 2014, |
| 1:04.0 | this time in Cleveland. |
| 1:05.0 | Yeah, and this is all happening just a few days after, as we talked about yesterday, a |
| 1:09.4 | federal judge rejected the plea deal reached by DOJ prosecutors and Travis McMichael. |
| 1:14.5 | McMichael, a white man, shot and killed Ahmad Arbery, an unarmed black man in South Georgia |
| 1:19.6 | in 2020. |
| 1:20.6 | So, Joe, can you tell us a little bit more about the NAACP's call for federal charges |
| 1:25.2 | to be brought against Van Dyke? |
| 1:26.8 | Sure. |
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