A Chicago police sergeant speaks with a relative of the 19-year-old man killed in a police-involved shooting near Kilpatrick Avenue and Erie Street in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, December 26, 2015 in Chicago.
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At a vigil on Sunday, she wore a t-shirt that read “Rahm Failed Us”, and demanded an apology from Chicago’s mayor, Rahm Emanuel.
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“No mother should have to bury her child”, Janet Cooksey, LeGrier’s mother, told a news conference in front of the home. At least one bullet appeared to have traveled through Jones’ apartment, hitting at least two walls.
Mayor Emanuel, in a statement, said: “Anytime an officer uses force the public deserves answers, and regardless of the circumstances, we all grieve anytime there is a loss of life in our city”. She was “just being a good citizen”, Latarsha Jones told NBC News. How far away were LeGrier and Jones when police started firing? Jacqueline Walker, a friend of Jones, asked.
High-profile killings of black men by police officers since mid-2014 have triggered waves of protest across the country and fueled a civil rights movement under the name Black Lives Matter.
“Something is seriously wrong”, said the Rev. Marshall E. Hatch, who attended the vigil. “How, in the middle of all this scrutiny, [can you] have a trigger-happy policeman?”
The statement said the police review authority has been tasked with finding deficiencies in the police department’s current training program and come up with a plan to change them.
‘The department extends its deepest condolences to the victim’s family and friends’.
“For her to fall victim to the very thing she fought against – it’s disgusting”, Jones’s cousin, Nikia Glover, 39, told The Washington Post in a telephone interview.
As Chicago grapples with the killings of Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones by Chicago Police, watch for City Hall to revise use of deadly force policies and for Education Secretary Arne Duncan to touch on the shootings when he delivers his farewell address Wednesday at St. Sabina Church.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office identified the dead as Bettie Jones and Quintonio Legrier, 19.
“There are serious questions about yesterday’s shootings that must be answered in full by the Independent Police Review Authority’s investigation”, Emanuel said.
The Fraternal Order of Police did not comment on Saturday’s shootings, a departure from years of on-the-scene statements from organization spokesman Pat Camden.
Watson and James say the percentage should be closer to 25 or 35 percent – enough so that there’s a CIT-trained officer on every shift in every police district who can respond to calls as needed. “Family was over”, Melvin Jones said.
“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. Emanuel has said an investigation into how police handled the case is being reopened. He said that raised questions about whether police could have perceived LeGrier as a threat at such a distance. His father told the Chicago Sun-Times that his son had “emotional problems”.
Cooksey added that her son had been in college studying engineering. One was from her landlord, Legrier’s father.
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This afternoon I directed the new Acting Chief Administrator of the Independent Police Review Authority and the Interim Superintendent of Police to meet with each other as soon as possible to review the Crisis Intervention Team training, around how officers respond to mental health crisis calls. Jones, a neighbor, was “accidentally struck and tragically killed”, police said. Each of these incidents shares a common thread: police were called to respond to mentally ill black people who were armed with non-projectile weapons or unarmed and then killed them without de-escalation attempts.
