Yes, Jason Van Dyke has been found guilty of second-degree murder for the shooting of Laquan McDonald in 2014. It’s troubling that a police officer should shoot someone walking away from him, even though armed with a knife, at all, let alone 16 times.
But looking deeper at this, why do people have to carry weapons on the street? And what does this say about our society in terms of the continual fear some people find themselves living in, both from the common citizen, and the police?