Prosecutor: Cops charged in cover up told the same lies

CHICAGO (AP) — A prosecutor says the three Chicago police officers charged with falsifying their reports about the fatal police shooting of black teenager Laquan McDonald told the same lies to protect the officer who pulled the trigger.
In her closing argument Thursday afternoon, Special Prosecutor Patricia Brown Holmes told Cook County Judge Domenica Stephenson that no objective viewer of the dashcam video that shows Officer Jason Van Dyke shoot McDonald 16 times could conclude, as the of