LeGrier and Jones were shot and killed by police early Saturday after officers responded to a report of a domestic disturbance.
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LeGrier, a 19-year-old Northern Illinois University student, went into foster care in 2002, the same year Cooksey accused his father, Antonio LeGrier, of sexually abusing him, the Sun-Times reported.
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Tasers are seen as an alternative to guns because they allow police to forcefully subdue a suspect without putting bullets in them.
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The statement said the department will also begin to require every officer who “responds to calls for service” to be equipped with a Taser and trained to use it by June 1, 2016.
The Chicago Police Department, already the subject of a federal civil rights investigation over its use of deadly force and other issues, has admitted the woman’s death was an accident.
Emanuel has faced mounting criticism and calls for him to resign following the release of the dashcam video showing the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald. Protests erupted over the city’s handling of the killing and whether the authorities – including Mayor Rahm Emanuel – tried to cover it up.
Chicago police say they’re not releasing additional information about a weekend shooting in which police killed two people.
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His foster mother, Mary Strenger, says LeGrier lived with her for 12 years.
McDonald was shot and killed on October 20, 2014, after police were called to a trucking yard to investigate a spate of attempted vehicle burglaries.
He saw a police officer who was “acting as if he knew that what he had done was wrong”, Foutris said. The officer is now charged with first-degree murder.
Police said LeGrier was being combative.
IL state Representative La Shawn Ford, who is pushing legislation to permit a mayoral recall, asked why City Hall was not making clear details of Emanuel’s itinerary. Collins says, ‘We take this matter very seriously and the incident is under review’. When police shot and killed him, the witnesses say Jones was hit in the crossfire and died.
“Shots fired out here, shots fired, shots fired, shots…” – another officer cut the first officer out – “two shots fired”.
Jones family attorney Sam Adam Jr. said shell casings recovered at the scene were found on the sidewalk and near the street, suggesting “the gunfire came from a substantial distance away” and that officers’ lives were not in immediate danger from LeGrier, even if he was still wielding the bat when police arrived.
The release of a Chicago police video last month of the fatal shooting of McDonald, which had been withheld for more than a year, led to the resignation of the city’s police chief and the start of a Department of Justice investigation into whether the city’s police use lethal force too often, especially against minorities.
A Chicago police spokesman referred calls on the case to IPRA. Both he and Jones were black.
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Jones, a mother of five who had hosted family for Christmas, and LeGrier, a college student home for holiday break, were pronounced dead at hospitals, according to relatives and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
