Attorneys for a white Chicago police officer charged with fatally shooting a black teen 16 times are again urging a judge to dismiss the case. Jason Van Dyke's attorney filed a second motion seeking to throw out the first-degree murder charges in the 2014 death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
Van Dyke's attorney Daniel Herbert told a judge, that there was a rush to sacrifice Jason Van Dyke to the angry mob. In a previous motion, Herbert said statements Van Dyke and other officers gave investigators helped build the case against Van Dyke even after the officers were assured they wouldn't be used against them.
McDonald's death prompted a Justice Department investigation that found Chicago police had violated people's constitutional rights.
