Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Thursday, December 7, 2017.
Jason Van Dyke lawyer makes tone-deaf comparison to torture of three black sharecroppers
An attorney for Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, made a tone-deaf comparison between Van Dyke’s case and that of “three black sharecroppers who were brutally tortured into confessing in a 1936 U.S. Supreme Court case,” according to the Sun-Times. Attorney Daniel Herbert made the comparison between Van Dyke’s case and the case of Brown v. Mississippi during a hearing Wednesday on a motion to force journalist Jamie Kalven to identify his sources. [Sun-Times]
