Laquan Mcdonald

Three current and former Chicago police officers were acquitted on Thursday of conspiring to protect a colleague by lying about the circumstances around the fatal police shooting of a black teen.

White Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder on Friday for the 2014 shooting of black teen Laquan McDonald, a case that laid bare tensions between the black community and the police department in the third-largest US city.

The Chicago mayor's office, police and the body that investigates police shootings closely coordinated their response in the months after a white officer fatally shot a black teenager in 2014, newly released emails.

Embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a major overhaul of the US city's police force Wednesday in the wake of fatal shootings which sparked mass protests.

A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 fatal shooting of a black teenager pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.

A Chicago police officer shot and killed two people early on Saturday while responding to a domestic disturbance call on the city's West Side, police said.

FBI agents on Monday arrested a black student who allegedly threatened to shoot 16 whites -- one for each bullet that hit a teen in a notorious police shooting.

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday joined a chorus calling for Chicago's police superintendent and a top prosecutor to resign for the way they handled last year's fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer.

The white Chicago policeman charged with murdering a black teenager he shot 16 times spent his first full day in custody on Wednesday in a jail hospital ward, but calm prevailed in the city despite fears of civil unrest over a video of the slaying.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday he was "deeply disturbed" by video of a white Chicago policeman shooting dead a black teenager, in the latest such incident to roil the United States.

Angry protesters spilled onto Chicago's streets last night after police released a video of a black teen shot 16 times by a white police officer.

Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Chicago police officer with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a black teenager last year, an incident captured in a graphic video that the Chicago Police Department released later in the day.

Racial tensions soared in Chicago on Tuesday as officials released a graphic video of a police officer shooting a black teen, shortly after he was charged for the death.

A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, hours before the city released a video of the killing that many people fear could spark unrest.

Three current and former Chicago police officers were acquitted on Thursday of conspiring to protect a colleague by lying about the circumstances around the fatal police shooting of a black teen.

White Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was found guilty of second-degree murder on Friday for the 2014 shooting of black teen Laquan McDonald, a case that laid bare tensions between the black community and the police department in the third-largest US city.

The Chicago mayor's office, police and the body that investigates police shootings closely coordinated their response in the months after a white officer fatally shot a black teenager in 2014, newly released emails.

Embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a major overhaul of the US city's police force Wednesday in the wake of fatal shootings which sparked mass protests.

A white Chicago police officer charged with murder in the 2014 fatal shooting of a black teenager pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.

A Chicago police officer shot and killed two people early on Saturday while responding to a domestic disturbance call on the city's West Side, police said.

FBI agents on Monday arrested a black student who allegedly threatened to shoot 16 whites -- one for each bullet that hit a teen in a notorious police shooting.

Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson on Saturday joined a chorus calling for Chicago's police superintendent and a top prosecutor to resign for the way they handled last year's fatal shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer.

The white Chicago policeman charged with murdering a black teenager he shot 16 times spent his first full day in custody on Wednesday in a jail hospital ward, but calm prevailed in the city despite fears of civil unrest over a video of the slaying.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday he was "deeply disturbed" by video of a white Chicago policeman shooting dead a black teenager, in the latest such incident to roil the United States.

Angry protesters spilled onto Chicago's streets last night after police released a video of a black teen shot 16 times by a white police officer.

Prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Chicago police officer with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a black teenager last year, an incident captured in a graphic video that the Chicago Police Department released later in the day.

Racial tensions soared in Chicago on Tuesday as officials released a graphic video of a police officer shooting a black teen, shortly after he was charged for the death.

A white Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager 16 times last year was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, hours before the city released a video of the killing that many people fear could spark unrest.