Police in Chicago are to receive new equipment and training on how to defuse tensions following a spate of fatal shootings of African-Americans by officers, the city’s mayor has said.
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In its efforts to delay release of the video, which might have been seen as a threat to Emanuel’s re-election campaign in February 2015, the city reportedly also asked McDonald’s family attorney to agree not to release the video until Van Dyke was charged.
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Activists are keeping up the pressure on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel over fatal police shootings.
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Political fallout from the case includes the firing of Chicago’s top cop Garry McCarthy; a recently announced overhaul of the reviewing agency and police training; a federal investigation into the practices of the police department; and consistent calls for the resignation of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, who also handled the McDonald case.
In the latest police shooting to make national headlines, Chicago officers responded to a call from the father of Quintonio LeGrier, a young man he described as “mentally disturbed” who was reportedly threatening him with a baseball bat.
The police chief and Emanuel said they looked at a number of cities, including New York, Seattle, Cleveland, Portland and Cincinnati, to glean ideas on how to effectively reform department policies. On Tuesday night, a small group of protesters gathered at Emanuel’s house, calling for his removal. Pfleger was joined by Northern Illinois University students, who marched in the memory of Quintonio LeGrier, a 19-year-old NIU student who was shot by Chicago police Christmas weekend.
About 20 people turned out Tuesday afternoon, the same day Emanuel was scheduled to return home from a vacation to Cuba.
The Chicago mayor’s office, police and the body that investigates police shootings closely coordinated their response in the months after a white officer fatally shot a black teenager in 2014, emails released Thursday revealed. His neighbor, Bettie Jones, 55, was accidentally fatally shot by police.
“Our goal is to change the way officers think when they approach an incident”, he said. John Escalante, suggested the training and additional Tasers would help ensure that officers’ perspectives are changed so that “force can be the last option, not the first choice”. He didn’t reply directly but pointed out that the problems at the CPD built up over decades, rather than in the last four years when he was mayor of the city.
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. Officers involved in shootings will be on desk duty for 30 days, up from the current three days during initial investigation into the incidents, Emanuel said, “so we can assess their fitness for duty”.
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.
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Pearson noted that after a video was released showing a white officer shoot a black teenager 16 times, Emanuel forced his police superintendent to resign and gave an emotional public apology.
