Chicago officials released hundreds of emails Thursday Dec. 31, 2015 related to a video showing a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times that wasn’t released until more than a year after the shooting. Both were black, and news of their deaths reignited the protests that have erupted throughout the city since the release last month of a video showing police shooting another black teenager, Laquan McDonald, 16 times in November 2014. McDonald, who was carrying a folded 3-inch knife, is seen veering away from Van Dyke in the video before the officer starts firing.
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His office said he cut his trip short and returned to Chicago on Tuesday. Previously CPD and IPRA have just said that the incident is under investigation and they can’t comment.
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The city released the emails a day after Emanuel said police must be better trained. Bettie Jones, 55, was shot by accident as she stood behind him near the front door of a two-flat in the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
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Chicago police officers surround a police vehicle as they watch demonstrators protesting the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald Dec. 18 in Chicago.
A statement from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office said Emanuel and Interim Police Superintendent John Escalante will have a news conference at 2 p.m. Wednesday to announce “a major overhaul” of the policy regarding how officers respond to incidents and the use of force.
While Emanuel was on vacation, Bettie Jones, 55, and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were killed on December 26 by an officer responding to a call that LeGrier was threatening his father with a metal baseball bat, another situation that critics said police could have addressed with a Taser.
The reforms come amid a federal investigation by the Justice Department into the use of force by Chicago police. Van Dyke pleaded not guilty to the charges earlier this week.
Pearson’s organization believes the only way to bring true change is to have a civilian police accountability council that isn’t appointed by the mayor.
Emanuel says the changes are aimed at “injecting some humanity” in how police operate. He noted that on audio recordings of communications between dispatchers and officers on the scene, several are heard “frantically” asking for a Taser before the shooting.
By October, Henry noted organizing by community groups around the McDonald case and the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Rekia Boyd by another Chicago officer. Emanuel did not talk to the protesters.
“The people have no trust in the police”.
On Thursday morning, even as Black Lives Matter protesters chanting “16 shots and a cover-up” marched along downtown Chicago’s Michigan Avenue, the city’s law office sent reporters thousands of pages of emails related to the dashboard camera video that recorded the teen’s death. “And like all of us, they are human and they make mistakes”, the mayor said.
Emanuel said Chicago officials deliberately chose cities that had already undergone Justice Department review, in hopes of making the kinds of changes that would eventually be ordered at the end of the investigation.
The department is now equipped with 700 Tasers, but officials expect to double that by June 2016.
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None of the eight police officers at the scene of McDonald’s shooting in 2014 had a Taser, although they had asked for a unit equipped with a Taser to come to the scene. Of almost 1,000 people shot and killed by police nationwide this year, almost a quarter were either suicidal or had a history of mental illness, according to a Washington Post database.
