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Mary Mitchell

On Jason Van Dyke case, why is U.S. attorney’s office silent on civil rights charges?

Protesters rallied Thursday outside the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in downtown Chicago, demanding that newly released Jason Van Dyke face federal civil rights charges for killing Laquan McDonald. | Tyler LaRiviere / Sun-Times

Jason Van Dyke’s early release from prison reopens a wound that hasn’t had time to heal.

A jury convicted the former Chicago police officer of murder for killing Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager, shooting him 16 time in 2014.

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