Witnesses to the police killing of Laquan McDonald were questioned for hours, threatened by officers and ordered to change their accounts to match the official Chicago police version of the shooting, attorneys for the teen's estate say.
The allegations are contained in more than 3,000 pages of recently released documents related to the case. The attorneys also allege that officers up the chain of command fabricated witness accounts to support officers at the scene who described the October 2014 shooting as justified.
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