VanDyke guilty of 2nd degree murder and multiple counts of aggravated battery with firearm.

[greatauntoftriplets]

Watching on NBC Chicago.

Adding a Link. Guilty on all 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/laquan-mcdonald-jason-van-dyke-trial-verdict-chicago-police-494298941.html

[obamanut2012]

1. Wow, shocked at this

Glad, but shocked!

[mythology]

2. Good. The rest of his life should be spent in jail.

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

4. He'll Be Out In A Few Years

2nd Degree Murder will get him 10 years or less, he'll serve half that.

[Fred Sanders]

6. No.

[Anon-C]

7. I heard something like 16 counts of aggravated battery with a fire arm or some such.

I think he'll get more than three years.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Each of the 16 shots.

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

13. I Predict 10 Year Sentence

They're going to run those sentences concurrently. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I'll be surprised if he spends more than 5 years in jail.

But by all means, it's a victory, and better than the alternative.

[Anon-C]

14. Amazingly cheap for a life. This officer was a documented problem, a bully and a bigot with...

...a badge. Even behind the blue line he should have been off the street or out the door.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. #LaQuanMcDonald

It's not justice. But it's something.

[apnu]

5. Also 2nd Degree murder, but not guilty on official misconduct

Not sure what to make of all that.

[exboyfil]

10. That is weird

(720 ILCS 5/33-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 33-3)
Sec. 33-3. Official misconduct.
(a) A public officer or employee or special government agent commits misconduct when, in his official capacity or capacity as a special government agent, he or she commits any of the following acts:
(1) Intentionally or recklessly fails to perform any

mandatory duty as required by law; or
**** (2) Knowingly performs an act which he knows he is

forbidden by law to perform; or *****

By definition Murder 2 would be committing and act forbidden by law.

[apnu]

15. Exactly, I'm confused.

Hopefully there will be some good legal media in the near future to explain that.

Also wondering about his sentencing. According to the Chicago Tribune, 2nd Degree murder has a 4-20 year sentence. Aggrivated Assault with a Firearm, 6-30, with mandatory 85% time served. He is guilty on 16 counts of aggravated assault. Will he serve those consecutively or concurrently?

[exboyfil]

16. I am a little shocked that each shoot was a separate charge

How typical is that?

[Cal Carpenter]

19. Confused too

It is as though the jury realizes that cops are sanctioned to kill innocent people, so this may not be 'official misconduct' based on precedence as far as police behavior, but it is still murder.

I'm probably wrong about that, and I don't know anything about what that charge really means, but that's where my weird mind took it.

[demmiblue]

8. K&R

[Garrett78]

11. In a sane world, a guilty verdict would have been a given and not a surprise.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. Now the Chicago cops are going to go on another whining baby tantrum on duty strikes.

[malaise]

17. Yes

Black lives do matter.

[Algernon Moncrieff]

18. I'm not going to write that I'm happy, but this conviction is progress

I'm not sure the verdict would have come down like this in a lot of other places.