The current watchdog agency’s members are appointed by Emanuel.
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Friday morning, three prominent bishops were set to call for a special prosecutor to handle the Laquan McDonald case.
Protesters in Chicago call for Cook Count State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign.
“The agreement says… we would not release the video unless the officer was not criminally charged”, he said.
A relative of the black teenager shot 16 times by a white Chicago police officer remembers him as gentle, loving and fond of telling jokes. There have been allegations of a cover up that reach as high as the mayor’s office, and the office of State Attorney Anita Alavrez.
Hunter, who is the great uncle, called for a change in a systematic racist culture that led to McDonalds death. He said he wished people would recognize that “dreads don’t mean awful”.
The city agreed to a $5 million settlement with McDonald’s family earlier this year without a lawsuit being filed. Hunter said the money that really matters should come in the form of government resources to foster economic development and keep such deaths from happening.
For the first time, the family members of Laquan McDonald speak out on Friday over the Chicago police shooting that killed him. He was carrying a knife, but in video of the confrontation he is seen moving away from officers and posing no obvious threat. Officers who saw Van Dyke shoot McDonald portrayed the teen as menacing, which is not how he appeared on screen.
The Rev. Marvin Hunter is McDonald’s great uncle.
Hardiman and other activists have planned a series of protests at the offices of several aldermen, including Ald.
FILE – In this October 20, 2014 frame from dash-cam video provided by the Chicago Police Department, La …
One notable absence was McDonald’s mother, whom Hunter said is “hurting and traumatized by the constant reminder of the senseless death of her son”. Two black state representatives have introduced a bill that would allow the mayor to be recalled.
Seventeen-year-old Cedrick Chatman was a suspect in a auto theft when he was killed on January 7, 2013, by police. Coleman’s parents say their son was suffering a mental breakdown, and when police arrived on the scene, they asked that he be taken to a hospital for evaluation and treatment. But the gun turned out to be a smart-phone box.
The pastor of Chicago’s Grace Memorial Baptist Church spoke at a 6:30 a.m. news conference to discuss the case and announce their new “vote of no confidence petition drive”.
An attorney for McDonald’s family said they, too, did not want the video made public initially because they were still grieving. Squad-car footage was released late last month upon a judge’s order, and protests have taken place nearly daily since.
Hundreds of protesters marched through Chicago streets and staged “die-ins” on Thursday, calling for Emanuel’s resignation a day after he emotionally apologized for the McDonald shooting.
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In they days after the video was released, Emanuel would fire Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, and reversed his opposition to a federal investigation of the CPD that is likely to lead to Justice Department oversight of the city’s police force.
