The only people who believe it will be his “lap-dog city council, ” another said, according to the Tribune.
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And for years, whenever Chicago officers did something wrong, their colleagues covered for them.
On Monday, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced a Justice Department civil rights investigation to determine if there are patterns of racial disparity in the police department’s use of force. Chicago-based lawyer Paul Strauss says one rule bars internal investigators from interviewing officers involved in shootings for 24 hours, potentially giving them time to coordinate fabricated stories.
“He was running as fast as he could away from police”, Coffman said.
Dozens of medical students from various Chicago student associations stage a “die in” outside the county building, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015, to protest the killing of Laquan McDonald by a police officer in Chicago.
Only days after he told reporters that he had Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s full support, Chicago police chief Garry McCarthy has been fired by the mayor. Protesters allege a cover up and have called for the resignation of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez.
“I think we are deep trouble in this city and in this state”, Fry said. Burge was convicted of lying about the torture and served 4½ years in prison. A group of officers in a southwest side district was arrested in the 1980s and convicted after a federal probe found they were paid off by drug dealers to warn them of police raids and even beat up competing dealers. We know that. And in most cases, it is dealt with appropriately. They also called for a special prosecutor to investigate McDonald’s October 2014 death. We’re exhausted of all of the police brutality.
Protesters gather at Chicago’s Daley Plaza for a December 9 rally and march calling for Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s spokeswoman, Shannon Breymaier, was part of an e-mail chain inquiring about whether the city could release video of the shooting, and a top assistant in the corporation counsel’s office replied, “This is not a lawsuit as of now”, WMAQ reported. Recent history shows that the Obama Department of Justice can not be counted on to perform a competent investigation, but at least this particular inquiry is not without cause. But Chicago officials also fought the release of the video, arguing it could interfere with any resulting court case. That prevented the public from seeing it before Emanuel’s spring re-election.
But he indicated he isn’t buying Emanuel’s explanation that the city waited to release the video because of ongoing investigations.
“There are bad apples in police departments”, said Carson.
Since the video’s release, McDonald’s death became another example in the current debate over gun violence and treatment of African-Americans by the police. Van Dyke has since been charged with first-degree murder.
An attorney for McDonald’s family said they, too, did not want the video made public initially because they were still grieving.
Now that Emanuel has openly acknowledged that there is a “code of silence” in the Chicago Police Department, candidates are also asked to talk in detail about the issue of “police integrity”.
“They can’t just explain what they are doing to the people”.
“One of our major demands is that police be defunded and that that money used to fund police be used to fund black futures, and be used to fund our communities and things that we need”, she said.
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“Something systemic has been happening here”, he said.
