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CHICAGO (CBS) -- The highly charged murder trial against Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke, charged in the shooting death of Laquan Mcdonald, is less than a week away.
Van Dyke wants the trial moved because of all the publicity; meantime, his face is plastered all over the Chicago Tribune as part of his interview with the newspaper.
CBS 2's Jim Williams reports it is clearly an effort by Jason Van Dyke's attorneys to show him in a sympathetic light and to set the stage before his murder trial. But did it violate the judge's gag order?
Pastor Marvin Hunter, the great uncle of Laquan McDonald, called Van Dyke's interview with the Chicago Tribune "shaping the narrative."
"I look at it clearly as a tactic that his attorneys are using to save or preserve his life," stated Pastor Marvin Hunter.
In the interview, Van Dyke, who has been charged with murder, says he prays for McDonald's family. He did not discuss details of the shooting itself, but told the Chicago Tribune: "I offer up a rosary every day. I never would have fired my gun if I didn't think my life was in jeopardy or another citizen's life was."
CBS 2's Political Analyst Irv Miller said he's stunned Van Dyke would do an interview now because the judge in Van Dyke's murder trial had imposed a gag
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William Calloway, the activist who spearheaded the release of the police video showing the shooting of Laquan McDonald that eventually led to a murder conviction against former Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke, is now calling for U.S. Attorney John Lausch to file federal civil rights charges against Van Dyke and several other Chicago police officers.
Calloway was joined by NAACP Chicago South Side President Rose Joshua and Rev. James Moody, senior pastor of Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church and community members who feel Van Dyke’s 81-month sentence and the acquittal of the other police officers in the related conspiracy case was not justice for the killing of McDonald.
Speaking in the lobby of the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse Wednesday, Calloway and Joshua called on Lausch to file charges against Van Dyke, Chicago Police Officer Thomas Gaffney, former Officer Joseph Walsh and former Detective David March; along with Lt. Anthony Wojcik and Sgt. Daniel Gallagher.
“We believe Laquan McDonald’s civil rights were violated based on the facts of the case and we want to see Van Dyke and the others prosecuted,” Joshua said.
In January 2019, Cook County Associate Judge Domenica Stephenson found Gaffney, Walsh and March not guilty of all
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