The city fought for more than a year to keep the video from being released, prompting accusations of a cover-up in City Hall and calls for Emanuel to resign.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Wednesday announced new training procedures and a push to supply all police with tasers amid mounting tension over police shootings of black Americans, reports say.
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Mayor Emanuel has faced growing calls for resignation during near daily protests in the city since last month.
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Emanuel and Interim Police Superintendent John Escalante scheduled a news conference for 3 p.m. ET to discuss details of the policy that outlines how police officers respond to incidents and the level of force they use.
He said it was his desire for the the Chicago PD to “create more time and distance in these situations and other encounters to make environments safe and safer for all”.
Another police shooting over the weekend has sparked further criticism of the department.
The group of activists was waiting for the mayor to return from his vacation in Cuba, which he cut short to address this weekend’s shooting. None of the eight police officers at the scene of McDonald’s shooting in 2014 had a Taser, though they had asked for a unit equipped with a Taser to come to the scene. Cleveland is expecting to see its fourth day of demonstrations following a decision on Monday not to charge officers who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy playing with a toy gun.
The changes, on the heels of a weekend incident in which police fatally shot 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier and his 55-year-old neighbor, Betty R. Jones, are Emanuel’s latest response to the criticism surrounding police use of force and the city’s handling of investigations into police shootings.
Days later, on October 20, city Officer Jason Van Dyke shot a black teenager, Laquan McDonald, 16 times in the back – and Emanuel’s office fought to keep the dashboard camera video, which would later prove crucial in bringing murder charges against the officer, under wraps for 13 months.
Emanuel has denied the allegation and has repeatedly said he won’t step down. Along with increasing the department’s use of Tasers and training, Emanuel and Escalante said officers will immediately receive more nuanced de-escalation training.
The police department says there are only a finite amount of Tasers in circulation, leaving about 30 per police district.
“I need the nation to know, Antonio LeGrier, father of Quintonio LeGrier, raised a good son that went to school and provided good grades and had a attractive future in front of him that was snuffed out by inexperienced officers”, he said.
With protests still raging over a series of fatal police shootings, Mayor Rahm Emanuel vowed Wednesday to reduce the use of deadly force by Chicago police, unveiling a plan to equip every patrol officer with a less- lethal Taser by summer.
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”.
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Some members of LeGrier’s family have said he suffered from mental illness, CNN affiliate WLS reported, but the teen’s mother has disputed that characterization.
