Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to reset how he is handled probably the most extreme crisis of his tenure, giving a decided & at times emotional speech to the City Council on Wednesday. through which he pledged to lastly complete Chicago’s entrenched practice of cops officers brutality & apologized for failing to fix the deep-seated difficulty sooner. “We want Rahm Emanuel to resign because we’re exhausted of the cover-up”.
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Emanuel’s speech on Wednesday, however, was not just about what happened the night of October 20, 2014, when Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke killed McDonald.
Emanuel, a former aide to President Barack Obama, also fought to keep the video hidden from the public and has dismissed calls for his resignation.
“There was not a real apology”, Grant said of Emanuel’s speech, “and Phillip’s name was not mentioned”.
The family, which has filed a lawsuit, was livid after the release of the video, saying that nobody from the city warned them it was to be made public in response to a media outlet’s public records request. People are upset and calling for the mayor’s resignation over the alleged cover-up of events surrounding the police shooting of Laquan McDonald.
Sheena Harmon, a third-year resident at Rush, said the justice system needs to be held accountable for its actions, “not only including the misuse of deadly force by police officers, but also the lack of prosecution for these heinous acts, and the misrepresentation of minorities and those of lower socioeconomic status”.
Another emphasis should be on recruiting more African-Americans as officers, Davis said, arguing they are less likely to open fire without justification as they patrol in neighborhoods they’re from. “No citizen is a second-class citizen in the city of Chicago”.
“Rahm Emanuel was surprised by some of things happening in the city”, he told MSNBC Thursday, “and you can’t be surprised in your second term as a mayor”. Hundreds of protestors hit the streets of Chicago demanding that Emanuel resign. The FBI’s 2014 statistics showed 411 killings, more than the 333 in NY and 260 in Los Angeles, two cities with larger populations. Emanuel responded by firing Chicago police chief Garry McCarthy, and this week U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the Justice Department will investigate the Chicago Police Department.
Now, as the stories above indicate, as mayor, Emanuel has had his come-to-Jesus moment on his renegade police force far too late to extricate himself from complicity in the crimes of that institution.
The midday protest was one of at least four different groups that had planned to converge downtown.
The protest happened at exactly 7:44 a.m. Thursday.
The problems in Chicago are complex and decades in the making; cleaning up the police force will require investigators to use a wide aperture.
Interim Superintendent John Escalante addressed an overflow crowd for his first police board meeting serving in that position as well as Sharon Fairley, the new head IPRA.
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To make her case that Hernandez could have been in fear for his life and the life of his fellow officers, she showed a video from a separate case in which a man running from police fired a gun behind him without looking, striking a pursuing officer.
