The police department has been under scrutiny since a dashcam video was released last month showing a white officer shooting a black 17-year-old 16 times. Dash-cam video of police shooting of Laquan McDonaldABC7 reporters and producers are sorting through those emails, including some in which officials discuss how to respond to requests to release police dash-cam video of the shooting.
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Officer Jason Van Dyke, who shot McDonald, and several other officers had reported that the teen had been threatening them physically at the time.
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Every police officer in Chicago will be armed with a Taser by June, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday. Van Dyke was charged with murder 13 months after the shooting and just before the video was released to the public.
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The release of the video set off weeks of demonstrations and forced the resignation of Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy.
Emanuel also said that any officer involved in a shooting will be placed on desk duty for 30 days. Protesters have called for Emanuel to resign.
The reforms come on the heels of a police shooting this past weekend that left two people dead: Quintonio LeGrier, 19, an emotionally troubled college student on holiday break, and his 55-year-old neighbor, Bettie Jones, a mother of five.
The news conference was Emanuel’s first public appearance since cutting short a family vacation to Cuba.
At a press conference, the mayor – appearing with city police superintendent John Escalante – said that “Force can be the last option, not the first choice”, although he said that police are human and do make mistakes.
As protests in Chicago continue against gun violence and police shootings, the city has released emails about the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, the black teenager shot 16 times by a white police officer.
Chicago, Illinois police will undergo changes in officer training, affecting interaction with suspects and the use of all types of weapons – from pepper spay to guns.
In early December 2014, Scott Ando, head of the Independent Police Review Authority – publicly touted by the mayor as uniquely independent in its probes of police shootings – singled out the case. But, in his view, “They’re doing it now because a lot of political pressure has been exerted on the mayor”.
Defense attorney Dan Herbert said that Officer Jason Van Dyke, who pleaded not guilty to the charges on Tuesday, is “hanging in there” and wants to tell his side of the story so that he’s not seen “as this cold-blooded killer”.
“And we will double the number of tasers to 1,400, while also providing officers the training to use them properly”.
The risk that a publicly released video could blow up not just locally but also nationally was made by lawyers from McDonald’s family who reached out to the city about a settlement in early 2015.
One day after a Cuyahoga County grand jury failed to indict the two police officers involved in the shooting death of Tamir Rice, 12, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson announced an administrative review of officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback.
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“With the right policies, the right procedures and the right practices, we can change our officers’ perspectives to help them ensure their own safety and the safety of others”.
