A Friday news release that comes weeks after video of a white police officer fatally shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald was made public, takes the unusual step of acknowledging that the public’s trust in the department “has been shaken”.
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Thompson said that Pate was not new to this kind of messaging, having called for Alabama Gov. Bob Riley’s impeachment through a banner over an Alabama-Texas football game in 2010.
In an interview with the Tribune on Thursday, interim Chicago police Superintendent John Escalante attributed the drop in police-involved shootings to “better training” and “better front-line supervision”, even though the Police Department and the city have come under national scrutiny for the way they handle such incidents, in light of the killing of 17-year-old McDonald by Officer Jason Van Dyke in 2014.
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Mr Van Dyke pleaded not guilty this week to a charge of murder.
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A public records request led to the release of thousands of emails sent by public officials in the months leading up to those charges and shows that officials from the Independent Police Review Authority and the mayor’s office were communicating back and forth, The Associated Press reports.
“Days before the video’s release, Collins wrote to police and law department representatives urging them to speak with “one voice” on the topic”.
The City of Chicago approved a $5 million settlement with McDonald’s family shortly after Emanuel won re-election previous year.
Chicago police officers surround a police vehicle as they watch demonstrators protesting the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald December 18, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. McDonald, who was carrying a folded 3-inch knife, is seen veering away from Van Dyke in the video before the officer starts firing.
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.
“What we are looking at is whether or not the police department has engaged in unconstitutional policing”, Lynch said in making her announcement on Monday (Dec. 7). They put their lives on the line so the rest of us can be safe.
Emanuel noted that on audio recordings of communications between dispatchers and officers on the scene the night of McDonald’s shooting, several officers can be heard “frantically” asking for a stun gun before the shooting.
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Emanuel has denied ever seeing the video prior to its release, a contention many activists have said they do not believe. The video, which was released in November 2015, prompted the resignation of a top police commander.
