After the release of the emails, Adam Collins, a spokesman for the mayor, told The Chicago Sun-Times that “City Hall was never involved with [the Independent Police Review Authority’s] investigation of McDonald”.
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It was unclear if the mayor was at his home, where protesters had gathered outside earlier Tuesday.
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The number of Tasers, or electric stun guns that are generally not lethal, will be doubled for the police department to 1,400 so that every patrol unit going out at night has one, Emanuel said.
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Herbert also said that they haven’t ruled out asking for a change of venue.
“We can’t legislate the human heart, but I think that what you have to do is make sure that the law is such that it holds officers accountable for their actions”, he said.
The Chicago Police Department, with some 12,000 officers, now has 700 Tasers, which fire dart-like electrodes that incapacitate but are generally non-lethal.
Police on Saturday fatally shot 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier and a downstairs neighbor, 55-year-old Bettie Jones, as they responded to a domestic disturbance. Van Dyke was charged with murder 13 months after the shooting and just before the video was released to the public.
“And we as a city must train for that difference”, Emanuel said, referencing what he said was a conversation with a police sergeant.
Neslund’s letter accuses detectives of repeatedly attempting to get the witness to change her statement because, they said, her story “did not match the video”. The video shows Officer Jason Van Dyke firing shots into McDonald’s motionless body.
In this chapter of a never-ending list of police brutality cases, we find yet again that the U.S. judicial system has let us down when it comes to a POC (person of color) being killed in or out of custody. Forty-two deaths were the result of fatal shootings and another 30 were due to various other causes, including “job-related illnesses”.
He said McCarthy “has become an issue, rather than dealing with the issue, and a distraction”.
The Chicago Police Department studied other police departments around the country to shape its new policing guidelines, Police Superintendent John Escalante said Wednesday, including the NY and Seattle police departments.
The Cook County State’s Attorney has asked for the FBI’s help to investigate the Chicago police shooting that claimed the lives of a 19-year-old college student and a 55-year-old grandmother.
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.
Ted Pearson, one of the leaders of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, noted that Emanuel made leadership changes after the release of the McDonald video and gave a speech before the City Council in which he apologized, appearing at times to be near tears. Police have said McDonald had a knife.
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Public outcry has been furious since a dashcam video was released last month showing Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times. But Pearson says that didn’t stop police from fatally shooting two people last weekend.
