The department will not say how many officers fired their weapons or what the two people were doing before they were shot. A 55-year-old neighbor, Bettie Jones, was accidentally hit and killed by gunfire.
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A cousin of LeGrier’s, Albert Person, says police indicated to LeGrier’s father afterward that the teenager opened the door holding a bat as officers arrived.
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A federal investigation has been launched into the Chicago Police Department’s practices.
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.
Emanuel’s office said Monday the mayor is “cutting his family trip short” and will be back in Chicago on Tuesday afternoon.
The Independent Police Review Authority, which reviews police conduct, is also investigating that shooting. “They just literally celebrated the birth of their Lord, the family had a wonderful dinner, and then to wake up the next morning and find out your mother’s been shot”.
LeGrier’s father, Antonio LeGrier, called police, but officers told him later that his son also had called 911 earlier, the elder LeGrier’s lawyer, Basileios Foutris, said Monday.
Emanuel, who is on vacation in Cuba, issued a statement a day after the shooting, noting that changes must be made in how police respond to mental-health situations. Amid growing protests over that case and other officer-involved shootings, the city’s police commissioner resigned. He pleaded not guilty to all charges on Tuesday at the Cook County criminal court in Chicago. He said “Exhibit A” would be Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s repeated comments about the case and Van Dyke.
Despite the mayor’s plans for policy changes, Guglielmi said he wasn’t sure yet where the funding would come from for the new training and equipment.
McDonald, who was 17 and black, was carrying a knife when he was shot on October 20, 2014, but appeared to be veering away from the police when Van Dyke began firing.
“We will continue to ask tough questions of the police department, of the investigative agencies, and of ourselves, to drive the reforms the people of Chicago deserve and expect”.
“These deaths by the hands of police are gaining a horrendous reputation for the United States both domestically as well as internationally”, said Abayomi Azikiwe, editor at the Pan-African News Wire.
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The change comes as protestors gathered outside Emanuel’s home and called for his resignation late into Tuesday night, in light of the deaths of 19-year-old Quintonio LaGrier and 55-year-old Bettie Jones at the hands of police over the weekend.
