Mr. McDonald’s great-uncle, the Rev. Marvin Hunter, did not immediately respond to emails or phone calls on Monday, but he said in February that he did not protest Mr. Van Dyke’s early release.
“Justice, in our eyesight, was getting a conviction,” he said at the time. “It wouldn’t benefit anyone in this country for Jason Van Dyke to go back to jail and get 100 years or 1,000 years.”
But Ja’Mal Green, 26, a former Chicago mayoral candidate who has spoken out about Mr. McDonald’s killing for several years, said that he had wanted the federal authorities to press charges against the former officer.
“The fact that a white man was able to pump 16 bullets into a young Black boy and only do three years in jail? That’s not justice,” Mr. Green said on Monday night.
As a result of Mr. McDonald’s killing, the federal authorities investigated the Chicago Police Department and issued a consent decree ordering hundreds of police reforms. Chicago police officers now wear body cameras while on duty.
The police superintendent and several police officers were fired over the cover-up, which also may have been one of the reasons Rahm Emanuel, the former mayor, did not seek a third term.
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