Attorneys: Chicago cops falsified witnesses' accounts, threatened them
Source: CNN
Chicago (CNN)At least three witnesses to the Laquan McDonald police killing were questioned for hours, threatened by officers and ordered to change their accounts to match the official Chicago police version of the shooting, the attorneys for the teen's estate say.
The allegations are contained in more than 3,000 pages of recently released documents related to the case. The attorneys also allege that police officers up the chain of command fabricated witness accounts to support the way officers at the scene described the October 20, 2014, shooting as justified.
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Another witness, a truck driver who was at a nearby Burger King, told the attorneys that he and two other witnesses, a woman and her friend who both saw the shooting, were put in police cars, taken to a station and interviewed for hours in separate rooms.
"He kept describing it and he said the police were visibly angry with him and arguing with him about what happened, saying, 'That's not what happened,' " Robbins said. "He'd say, 'Well, that's what I saw.' They said, 'No, you're wrong.' "
At one point, the trucker told police he needed to get back to work for a 6 a.m. shift, according to Robbins. "The police said, 'We don't give a f--- about your truck. Let's go through this again,' " Robbins said.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/08/us/laquan-mcdonald-witness-cover-up-allegations/
There's a lot more at the link. Hopefully there are heads that roll because of this.
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