Garry McCarthy, who, like Baltimore’s Batts, had been brought on board four years earlier as a reformer.
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On November 25, Obama wrote on Facebook that he was deeply disturbed by the footage of the shooting of the 17-year-old.
When announcing charges against Van Dyke, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said McDonald’s knife was folded. Alvarez, they maintained, has a conflict of interest and can’t be trusted to prosecute a case she took more than a year to indict. He also said the city could not withhold the video because state and federal agencies were investigating an incident – not the city police department itself.
A federal judge is expected to rule on the video’s release December 10.
In a recent editorial, the Chicago Tribune called for an independent investigation into the McDonald case, which has made national headlines.
After Emanuel fired McCarthy, the New York Times editorial board charged Emanuel with demonstrating “a willful ignorance” of police misbehavior and “seeking to depict the cop as a rogue officer”. She argued that “cover-up” will unravel once the public sees the video of police shooting her son. Ald. Chris Taliaferro (29th) said he will submit a resolution at the December 9 council meeting calling for that hearing.
During a panel discussion Tuesday night, Megyn Kelly addressed the potential disparate treatment that may have been in play in how the U.S. Department of Justice approached the Laquan McDonald case. If you go and look back at what Steve Patton said in front of City Council, a lot of that was there and in public domain.
Chicago police have said Johnson was armed and pointed a gun at police before an officer shot and killed him. “[McCarthy’s] firing was a start, but who else was involved in this cover-up?”
All sides need to figure out the best policies “very quickly”, especially because police dashcams and body cameras will become more ubiquitous, says Samuel Walker, a retired criminal justice professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Top cop: Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts, who was previously the police chief in Oakland and Long Beach, had promised reform when he arrived in Baltimore in 2012.
“IPRA, which is hand-picked by the mayor, is the mayor’s police accountability board”.
In April, prior to the city’s election, in which Mayor Emmanuel won a close run-off election, the Chicago Council approved a $5 million settlement with McDonald’s family – even before a lawsuit had been filed. But the video shows McDonald incapacitated, his movements minimal. “I don’t want it”. The police dashcam video, however, appears to show that McDonald was moving away from Van Dyke when the officer opened fired.
“I’m not buying that you guys didn’t know”. “If there’s an action required after that, to hold people accountable, we will”.
“I can’t watch that videotape without saying, ‘Oh my God”. You just had a private conversation with me, and now you decide to make that public.
“Families are exhausted of feeling this pain, and so am I”, Rawlings-Blake said.
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Also Friday, local politicians joined religious and community leaders for a demonstration at City Hall.
