In Chicago, civil rights lawyers have called for Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s replacement in the case of Laquan McDonald’s fatal shooting by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke. Of course, Alvarez doesn’t think she should be replaced, despite taking a year to charge Van Dyke.
On Tuesday, attorneys filed a petition in Cook County requesting a special prosecutor to not only handle Van Dyke’s case but also decipher whether (how, really) the CPD covered up McDonald’s death, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Regarding Alvarez, the petition calls for her to step down “because she is so aligned with the Fraternal Order of Police” that she’s “part of the code of silence among police officers and can’t handle the case fairly.”