. . . of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, leading to the indictment of the officer. Journalists Jamie Kalven and Brandon Smith doggedly pursued the story, using freedom of information requests -- after some mainstream news outlets in Chicago had accepted the official prevarication that the victim had lunged at police and was shot in self-defense. The police dashcam video was finally released on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, thanks to the work of Smith -- and yet he was barred from the news conference about the video that he forced the release of. Kalven had forced release of the autopsy, which had cast doubt on the official story months earlier.
Many suspect that the suppression of the video from the public for more than a year was intended to help Mayor Rahm Emanuel win a very contested election earlier this year.
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