Emanuel directed the police department and the Independent Police Review Authority to meet, saying there must be changes to how the department responds to mental heath crisis calls.
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“I’ve never seen this kind of detachment in the years that I’ve been fighting, whether I got along with the mayor or not”, he said.
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Police said 55-year-old Bettie Jones was accidentally hit by gunfire.
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According to the police, Legrier threatened CPD officers when they arrived on the scene and they responded with deadly force.
It follows the killing of a black teenager by a white officer in 2014. Family members say LeGrier was a Northern Illinois University student who suffered from some form of mental illness.
Jones’ friend Jacqueline Walker raised what many consider to be a pertinent question at a news conference outside the home where the first shooting happened. Antonio LeGrier said when he returned to his second-floor apartment early Saturday, his son appeared to be a “little agitated”.
“An innocent lady got shot as well because the police were trigger happy”, LeGrier’s mother, Janet Cooksey, told WLS.
Emanuel, a former Congressman who was also President Obama’s Chief of Staff and a senior advisor to Pressident Bill Clinton, is expected back in Chicago on Tuesday afternoon.
Police said the shooting is under investigation and the case has been referred to the city’s main police oversight agency.
Pfleger said after he huddled with Gupta, Fardon and the rest of their team, he thought, “They are going in depth; they are going to go as wide and deep as they need to”.
“There are serious questions about yesterday’s shootings that must be answered in full by the Independent Police Review Authority’s investigation”, the statement said.
The department said in a statement that officers “were confronted by a combative subject resulting in the discharging of the officer’s weapon”.
Ten minutes later on police radio: “Shots fired out here, shots fired, shots fired!”
Emanuel’s police department also departed from past practices and immediately apologized for Jones shooting. When police arrived, Jones opened the door of the building to let them in, and witnesses say LeGrier then came charging down the stairs behind her, from the upstairs apartment, wielding the bat. The footage, nevertheless, shows that the department lied about the killing, and that young man was in fact feet away from them, walking away at the time he was killed. Van Dyke has been charged with murder and is now awaiting trial. “The police are supposed to serve and protect us”.
There are more questions tonight in the wake of the police-involved shootings that occurred over the weekend. They did not say whether there was a video of the incident, provided no information on officers involved, and said the department was unlikely to say any more on Sunday. Autopsy findings released Sunday by the Cook County medical examiner’s office say Jones died from a gunshot to the chest and LeGrier from multiple gunshot wounds.
Cheryl Dorsey, a retired Los Angeles police sergeant, asked why the Chicago police officers did not deploy tasers when LeGrier was unarmed.
Cheryl Dorsey, a retired Los Angeles police sergeant and law enforcement consultant for CNN, also wondered why police didn’t use stun guns. She said the likelihood of an officer encountering a person in crisis is far greater. He said he wants them to review the training around how officers respond to mental health crisis calls, and determine deficiencies and how to immediately address them.
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Emanuel left on Friday, Dec. 18, and when I talked to City Hall for a column last week about new tourism rules since the U.S.-Cuba thaw, the deliberate impression left from the artfully worded explanation was that it was a 10-day trip.
