Police say they’ll release the footage later this week. “We accept it, and we need it”. They have also called on city officials to release a dashcam video of the shooting. They have sued the city over the death.
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The historical relationship between the Chicago police and the community.
Prosecutors say a Chicago police commander accused of shoving his gun down a suspect’s throat hid behind his badge and violated the public’s trust. The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he was pleased with the decision and added that he hoped the investigation would focus not only on the police department, but on Emanuel’s office and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office, which he and others have criticized for taking so long to bring charges against Van Dyke.
This story has been corrected to show the name of the new head of the Independent Police Review Authority is Sharon Fairley, not Fairly.
At the time of the incident in October 2014, Mayor Rahm Emanuel was looking ahead to a hotly-contested re-election in February 2015, which he would later win in a run-off in April.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division to review Chicago’s police department’s practices, a move Emanuel has labeled as misguided.
“It is clear to me when you look at Laquan McDonald and other experiences – and they go way back in history -…, then none of the things we’ve done in the past have measured up to the scope, the scale and consequences of what needs to be done”, Emanuel said.
Chicago police have not responded to CNN’s request for comment.
Nine people were arrested and one Chicago police officer was taken to the hospital Sunday night after he was struck by a bottle while trying to break up a fight.
Van Dyke is white, and McDonald was black. “That’s what he said”, Escalante said.
The video shows him on the edge of the park, and out of the camera’s range, he was shot. “There was no attempt to try to get his statements to match the evidence”. Police Supt. Garry McCarthy was previously forced to resign.
He noted that CPD internal affairs, IPRA and the police board are “all supposed to be doing something” in terms of police accountability, “and it’s not happening”.
Prosecutors also showed reporters an image with a red circle around Johnson’s hand, saying that forensic experts clarified images of a weapon.
“Obviously, it’s sad every time there’s a loss of life”, he said.
Johnson’s mother, Dorothy Holmes, told reporters Monday that she was “very upset” it took Alvarez 13 months to release the video of the shooting and that the allegation that Johnson was carrying a gun at the time was a “bald-faced lie”.
IPRA conducted a previous investigation that found none of the officers engaged in wrongdoing in their handling of Coleman. The DOJ’s decision comes less than two weeks after a court ordered Chicago officials to release video of police shooting a 17-year-old named Laquan McDonald.
Emanuel’s administration withheld police footage of the shooting that his critics say conflicted with claims that the officer shot McDonald in self-defense. Both officials have said they have no plans to resign. The officer was charged with murder. The situation calls for forthright action, for honesty and leadership. She has entire graveyards.
This investigation is much needed.
The Chicago Police Department denied that Homan Square was home to anything unusual or illegal.
Alvarez and her office botched the trial against Dante Servin after he murdered Rekia Boyd.
We’ll also find out one of these days if U.S. Attorney Zach Fardon is charging any other cops or City Hall operatives connected to the McDonald shooting and its aftermath, which raised a plethora of still-unanswered questions.
The average investigator caseload has dropped from approximately 35 in 2013 and early 2014 to 10 by the end of 2014 and 8 as of September 1 of this year, the mayor’s office said. “The report, issued in March, found that officers routinely discriminated against blacks by using excessive force, issuing petty citations and making baseless traffic stops”. Scott Waguespack (32nd) said in a statement. “But it’s a narrative that just isn’t borne out by the video that we’ve seen”.
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“The public has lost trust in local Chicago authorities”.
