Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel with US President Barack Obama. Photo: Official White House photo by Pete Souza.

Breitbart – After more than a week of protesters flooding the streets of Chicago over the death of an African-American teen shot by a city police officer over a year ago, the Department of Justice is poised to finally launch a probe into the actions surrounding the shooting.

Sources told the Chicago Sun-Times on Sunday that Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch will launch a Civil Rights Division investigation into the Chicago Police Department’s actions during the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. The teen was shot sixteen times by officer Jason Van Dyke.

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