By John Dempsey, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO)  The Chicago Tribune is reporting that some Chicago Police Officers were planning on holding a fundraiser later this month, to support four officers accused of lying about the circumstances of the LaQuan McDonald shooting in 2014.

However after Tribune reporters began asking questions about the event, there are indications it may have been canceled.     The Police Department is seeking to fire the four officers who it says lied in their reports about the shooting of the black teenager by officer Jason Van Dyke.    Van Dyke pumped 16 bullets into the teenager’s body in a shooting that was captured by a police dashboard camera.     The release of that footage a year after the shooting led to murder charges being filed against Van Dyke, and led the department to seek the firing of the four officers who were on the scene that night.

The Tribune reports a fundraiser to benefit the cops was set for March 19th at 115 Bourbon Street, a bar popular with police officers in the southwest suburb of Merrionette Park.   However the newspaper says  nobody involved in organizing the event was willing to talk about it Monday, or to address rumors that it had been canceled.

Read the entire Tribune report here.

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