In saying the number of Tasers will be doubled, Emanuel mentioned the McDonald shooting. They put their lives on the line so the rest of us can be safe. “And we as a city must train for that difference.” said Emanuel. “Our job is to reduce the chances of mistakes”.
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Bryant wins one last time in Boston
He reminded them all they needed to do was go home and win two games. “I grew up a really big historian of the game”, Bryant said. Bryant finished with a team-high 20 points in the Lakers 108-98 loss and said that he was moved by the cheers from the crowd.
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 officials released hundreds of emails Thursday Dec. 31, 2015 related to a video showing a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times that wasn’t released until more than a year after the shooting. It does not mention the forced resignation of Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, the murder charge against Van Dyke nor various federal and local investigations, but it does include several “major reforms” that were announced earlier this week.
NHL Winter Classic: 5 storylines from Canadiens-Bruins outdoor game
So far this season, Marchand has been the Bruins leading scorer with 26 points (15 goals and 11 assists in 34 games). Needless to say, Montreal fans have to be pretty happy with how the New Year’s Day event started for their team.
Chicago’s top prosecutor asked the FBI to investigate the fatal shooting of two people by a Chicago police officer who was answering an domestic disturbance call.
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The game started off fast as David Desharnais got a quick goal past Tuukka Rast off of a face off 1:14 into the first period. Eyewitness News spoke with several fans who said they are rooting for the Bruins during the big game on New Year’s Day.
Yet that didn’t stop a shooting last weekend, in which police killed two people: 55-year-old Bettie Jones, who police said was shot accidentally, and 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier.
The Chicago Tribune reports that the city expanded Taser use in 2010, but that shootings by police did not drop in the ensuing years. John Escalante and the head of Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, Sharon Fairley, to review the department’s crisis intervention and de-escalation policies.
There is a use-of-force module for every type of interaction officers have from the time they arrive at a scene, and the new policies will be emphasized in each module layer.
Besides new equipment, the police department will also “ask themselves a series of key questions as an event unfolds” to determine the best course of action, according to the statement.
The department and the city’s leaders also have been criticized for what many view as a willingness to cover up the misdeeds of officers. Squad-car video of the fatal 2014 shooting, released last month, set off protests and calls for Emanuel to resign.
Chicago officials are expected to announce changes in police training, including a requirement that every officer responding to service calls be equipped with a Taser.
A community activist says he’s skeptical changes Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing for Chicago police will reverse decades of mistrust between officers and residents.
Escalante on Wednesday declined to elaborate on the scant details of what happened that morning, though Emanuel acknowledged that public trust in Chicago police is “frayed to the point that it’s broken”.
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Officers will be trained on how to intervene in violent domestic situations involving suspects who are drunk, mentally ill, high on drugs, or simply out of control. As we reported, the group waited in the mayor’s front yard as he returned from his vacation in Cuba, which he cut short to address this weekend’s shooting. “I just think the accountability should come in what we are actually doing and what are the things we have to change, as opposed to what did the number turn out to be”, Pollack said.
