On the same day the video was released, Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder.
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The Tribune reports all the footage from 12 camera angles inside and outside the restaurant have a gap of about 80 minutes.
Governor Rauner says he cried when he watched the video of McDonald getting shot 16 times.
Emanuel fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Tuesday and has launched a search for a replacement, following protests over the police killing of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old African-American teenager, which was caught on video.
“(The Police) still persist in that officer Hernandez fired because Ronald Johnson turned and pointed a weapon at him and was carrying a gun”, Oppenheimer said.
Michael Oppenheimer, the attorney for Johnson’s family, said Thursday he had not yet been notified of the mayor’s comments. Sometimes, civilian cellphone video plays a role in prodding a city to release its own police video, as happened in Charleston, South Carolina, earlier this year.
“The president, in each of those situations, has been cognizant of the limits that are placed on the president of the United States, that his public expressions, either of support or criticism, could be perceived by some as interfering with an independent law enforcement investigation”, Earnest said.
Camiella Williams of the nonprofit group Concerned Citizens said her group filed Freedom of Information Act requests not only for the McDonald footage but requesting other police shooting videos.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks to the media, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2015, in Chicago.
He says once that and other investigations play out, “we can discuss further from those results”. He indicated her future should be a local decision.
Dash-cam video released last week apparently shows Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times.
Details of when the video would be released were not available from the mayor’s office.
“He didn’t have a gun in his hand because I also have seen the video”, Holmes said.
Holmes and her attorney have seen the video and have pushed for its release.
Johnson’s family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court. As the city looks elsewhere, the Chicago Housing Authority has been quietly and steadily perpetrating some of the most disturbing institutional mismanagement in a city where jaw-dropping corruption is a spectator sport. Dashcam video released last month, however, showed the teen apparently walking away from officers when he was shot. I think that one of the reasons I asked the former head of the Civil Rights Division, Deval Patrick, to be an outside adviser and senior adviser to this working commission is because it’s exactly the question he is familiar with and he has a different set of eye – I think is essential.
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When it rains, it pours, and the office of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing a metaphorical thunderstorm of controversies and about-faces this week. Days after its release, with public fury still rising, Emanuel axed McCarthy.
