“The voters spoke. I’ll be held accountable and responsible for my actions and decisions I make”.
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“Obviously, the citizens of Chicago will have to determine who should be running the city, including evaluating his commitment over the long term” to implement reforms, Earnest said.
“We have a process”, he said. Since that time, Emanuel’s City Hall has come under intense scrutiny as videotape from October 2014 showed Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting McDonald, a robbery suspect, 16 times and killing him.
Chicago Police Department Superintendent Garry McCarthy has been asked to step down by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the wake of the controversy surrounding recently released footage showing police brutality.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, under fire after the release of a video that showed the shooting death of a black teenager, had an at-times tense and awkward interview with Politico on Wednesday.
The DOJ, which is now investigating the Baltimore Police Department, has investigated 67 police agencies since it was given authorization to do so in 1994, said PBS. “But I’ve not heard anything from Chicago at all”, Ramsey said.
Alvarez responded, “That’s all I’m going to say on this”.
Earlier in the day, he announced the creation of a task force for police accountability. Protesters called for the resignation of many city officials to answer for the death of Laquan. Police say he was armed and pointed a gun at officers.
When Alvarez’s office finally chose to go through with the charges, she charged Van Dyke with first-degree murder for shooting McDonald.
CHICAGO_Since 2009, the civil rights unit of the U.S. Justice Department has investigated nearly two-dozen troubled police departments in cities including New Orleans and Ferguson, Mo. The incident was captured on a patrol auto dash camera, and in April, the city of Chicago paid McDonald’s family $5 million to block a lawsuit that might have made the video public.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton called the controversial Chicago police superintendent who was sacked yesterday a “very good friend”, adding that the Windy City’s top cop is often hired “just to be fired”.
“The police chief, the mayor, and the state’s attorney had the tape and they covered it up”, Jackson said. “An investigation into whether there are patterns and practices of civil rights violations by CPD is vital to bringing about the systemic change that is necessary here”.
Emanuel served as Obama’s first chief of staff.
The investigation in Ferguson, which has about 55 sworn police officers, lasted about six months. Van Dyke continues to fire on the 17-year-old even after he crumples to the ground.
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Madigan cites five other high-profile cases of questionable use of deadly force instances or misconduct that took place over the last five years.
