The video shows Officer Jason Van Dyke shoot McDonald 16 times shortly after Van Dyke stepped out of his vehicle.
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McCarthy came under fire following the release of police dash-cam video of the police shooting of Laquan McDonald, 17. “[So] this morning, I formally asked for his resignation”.
But U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said that police and the community need to “build a relationship based on mutual trust and respect”.
The mayor hired McCarthy, 56, in 2011, to take over law enforcement in a city plagued by persistent violent crime, and homicides declined during his tenure.
“I think I’m doing my job”.
Police brutality against minorities in the United States has been a major point of concern for long resulting in large-scale demonstrations across the country and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Van Dyke, 37, was released from jail on Monday after posting bond on a $1.5 million bail.
“At the end of the day we knew this was going to happen anyway”, said Alderman Joe Moore.
Chicago police cars are set up so audio records along with video, police have said.
At the same time, Emanuel also announced that former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick – a native Chicagoan and former head of the federal Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division – will head an independent blue-ribbon commission to evaluate, “top to bottom”, the practices and culture of the Chicago police. The officer appeared to continue shooting after the teenager was lying on the pavement. But after a Cook County judge ordered the release of the video, a different narrative emerged.
Some have said that McCarthy’s resignation isn’t enough. It also includes two Hispanics – Hiram Grau, the former director of the Illinois State Police, and Sergio Acosta, an experienced criminal litigator and investigator – and one Caucasian, City of Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson. It will review oversight and training that is now in place for Chicago’s police officers.
“The shocking death of Laquan McDonald is the latest tragedy in our city that highlights serious questions about the use of unlawful and excessive force by Chicago police officers and the lack of accountability for such abuse”. Chicago police have said 25-year-old Ronald Johnson of Chicago was fatally shot by an officer on October 12, 2014.
With the city still on fire over the video, Emanuel’s fate has yet to be determined.
Even the Chicago Teachers Union, which rarely sees eye to eye with City Hall, said this time the mayor got it right.
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His mother, Dorothy Holmes, has said he was running away from officers.
