Chance the Rapper brought some of Chicago’s struggles to the national stage Saturday by mentioning veteran Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke in his “Saturday Night Live” debut.
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Demonstrators stage a die-in in front of City Hall during march through downtown Chicago, calling for the resignation of Mayor Emanuel. Yet, while protestors are demanding the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, one black youth leader wants the Chicago Police Department to be defunded.
Protesters in the United States city of Chicago continue to call for justice for an African-American teenager shot 16 times by a white police officer a year ago, demanding the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Pastor Marvin Hunter, from the Grace Memorial MBC, will hold a 11:15 a.m. press conference to discuss the McDonald’s controversial police brutality case.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s decision not to resign amid allegations of a City Hall cover-up of the fatal shooting of a black teen by a white officer is what it looks like when ego trumps ethics. He intentionally avoided watching it, he says, because the public pressure to act that would have followed would have affected States Attorney Anita Alvarez’s investigation of the killing. The county’s top public prosecutor announced charges against the officer just hours before the video was made public.
In comparison to say the Black Friday protest, there were many more people involved. Murphy was not listening to Chicago police radio traffic but saw several Chicago police cars race by on Archer Avenue and joined in to help, Smith said. Acting on a judge’s order, the city released it November 24.
One notable absence was McDonald’s mother, whom Hunter said is “hurting and traumatized by the constant reminder of the senseless death of her son”.
The city is fighting the release of that video, arguing that it could prejudice would-be jurors if the case goes to trial.
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That day Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced she had “requested the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division to initiate an investigation to determine whether practices by the Chicago Police Department violate the Constitution and federal law”. “People don’t want the thugs on the corner or dealers running open drug markets and they depend on the police to keep them safe”. Emanuel apologized in recent days that the incident occurred under his administration. He fired the police chief and named a new head of the police review agency that investigates police conduct.
