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Groton Daily Independent
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 ~ Vol. 24 - No. 349 ~ 30 of 41
suspended because of the felony indictment.
“The shooting of Laquan McDonald forever changed the Chicago Police Department and I am commit-
ted to implementing policies and training to prevent an incident like this from happening again,” Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said in a statement.
Johnson didn’t comment speci cally on the indictment. Kevin Graham, president of the of cers’ union, said the union has not yet reviewed it and declined to comment because it’s an ongoing investigation.
Jeffrey Neslund, an attorney who helped negotiate a $5 million settlement with the city on behalf of the McDonald family, welcomed the indictments.
“This is the same thing that our investigation showed back when we were negotiating with the city in 2015, that there was a cover-up,” he said.
Neslund said he has tried to contact McDonald’s mother but has not been successful.
Van Dyke was charged more than a year after the shooting with rst-degree murder on the same day that the city — under orders from a judge — made public the dashboard camera video. He has pleaded not guilty.
His attorney Dan Herbert released a ery statement late Tuesday, alleging the indictment will silence potential witnesses and is “further proof that the government is determined to prevent” Van Dyke from having a fair trial.
If convicted, the three of cers could face years in prison. The of cial misconduct charge alone carries a maximum penalty of ve years in prison and a $25,000 ne.
The of cers weren’t arrested and will be allowed to show up on their own accord at their arraignment on July 10, Holmes said. Asked why, she told a news conference later Tuesday “it’s very typical for a situ- ation like this to give a courtesy call to the defendants” and, if they’re not deemed dangerous or a ight risk, to let them appear at their future arraignment.
New cyberattack wallops Europe; spreads more slowly in US By RAPHAEL SATTER and FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software — apparently sown in Ukraine — caused disruption across the world Tuesday. Following a similar attack in May , the fresh cyber- assault paralyzed some hospitals, government of ces and major multinational corporations in a dramatic demonstration of how easily malicious programs can bring daily life to a halt.
Ukraine and Russia appeared hardest hit by the new strain of ransomware — malicious software that locks up computer les with all-but-unbreakable encryption and then demands a ransom for its release. In the United States, the malware affected companies such as the drugmaker Merck and Mondelez Inter- national, the owner of food brands such as Oreo and Nabisco.
Its pace appeared to slow as the day wore on, in part because the malware appeared to require direct contact between computer networks, a factor that may have limited its spread in regions with fewer con- nections to Ukraine.
The malware’s origins remain unclear. Researchers picking the program apart found evidence its creators had borrowed from leaked National Security Agency code, raising the possibility that the digital havoc had spread using U.S. taxpayer-funded tools.
“The virus is spreading all over Europe and I’m afraid it can harm the whole world,” said Victor Zhora, the chief executive of Infosafe IT in Kiev, where reports of the malicious software rst emerged early afternoon local time Tuesday.
In Ukraine, victims included top-level government of ces, where of cials posted photos of darkened computer screens, as well as energy companies, banks, cash machines, gas stations, and supermarkets. Ukrainian Railways and the communications company Ukrtelecom were among major enterprises hit, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said in a Facebook post .
The virus hit the radiation-monitoring at Ukraine’s shuttered Chernobyl power plant, site of the world’s