Emanuel cut his family trip to Cuba short after a round of police shootings over the weekend killed two people and left another wounded. The issue resurfaced last weekend, after officers responding to a domestic disturbance shot and killed a 19-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman.
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Escalante added that he looked to units in places like New York City, Cleveland, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, in developing the new rules. Van Dyke pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the 2014 shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald du… 29, 2015, in Chicago.
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Escalante said he didn’t know if changes, underway in the department, would have resulted in a different outcome that day. “And we as a city must train for that difference”.
Training under the new policy is scheduled to begin next week, notes the report.
The mayor and Superintendent Escalante will make their announcement Wednesday at a 2 p.m. news conference outside the mayor’s fifth floor office at City Hall.
The Chicago PD will double the number of Tasers deployed to 1,400, as well as training the officers to use them properly, Emanuel said, thanking the city’s black and Hispanic leaders for their push for more Tasers.
Emanuel announced changes in police training and department policies on use of force during a news conference, pledging “nothing less than complete and total reform”.
The video set off weeks of protests in downtown Chicago with numerous marchers demanding that Emanuel resign.
A spokesman for the mayor, Adam Collins, confirmed late Tuesday that Emanuel had arrived in Chicago.
“The goal is to make sure everyone goes home safely”, Emanuel said. Chicago’s lack of action on police shootings has finally motivated the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to launch an investigation.
A growing number of police departments are relying on Tasers as an alternative to firearms, even though the stun guns can be potentially lethal: almost 50 people this year have died in police incidents where a Taser was involved, according to the Washington Post.
Pearson says, “The people have no trust in the police”. “They are part of the toolbox; they are not the toolbox”, he said.
On Sunday morning, Antonio LeGrier called police to respond to his son, who suffered from mental illness and was banging on a door with a baseball bat. They have not said where LeGrier was or exactly what he was doing, but said Jones “was accidentally struck”.
According to the newspaper, state records show the Illinois Department of Family Services took custody of LeGrier when he was 5 because of allegations of abuse by his mother.
The Republican says, “This tragedy further underscores the need for a broad and deep federal investigation, which I continue to strongly support”.
CHICAGO (AP) – Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Wednesday that Chicago police must be better trained to distinguish between when they can use a gun and when they should use a gun, after a series of shootings by officers sparked protests and complaints that police are too quick to fire their weapons.
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Audio released last week indicated that an officer who responded to the call requested a Taser to use with McDonald, but instead he was shot 16 times, WMAQ reported.
