The dashcam video reveals that Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke fired 16 bullets into McDonald, some of which were shot after the teen had collapsed to the ground.
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CBS Chicago reported that the email messages, “including some between city officials asking how they should respond to demands for the video, were released to media outlets that have been pressing for the documents for weeks”.
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Thousands of emails were released in response to open-records requests regarding 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who died in October 2014 after being shot 16 times. Van Dyke pleading not guilty is like the guilty child who clearly stole from the cookie jar, but blames his sibling.
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Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said on Thursday she wants help investigating the shootings of Bettie Jones, a 55-year-old mother of five, and Quintonio LeGrier, a 19-year old college student, by a single Chicago police officer.
Chicago has approximately 12,000 sworn officers, so with 1,400 total tasers in deployment, about 11.6 percent of all officers will have them, with roughly 20 percent of responding officers equipped, according to Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.
Emanuel has come under pressure from community activists to resign since a video of a white police officer shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald was released last month.
His office said he cut his trip short and returned to Chicago on Tuesday. One of them was a 55-year-old woman who police say was killed by accident.
Emanuel pledged training to make police encounters with citizens “less confrontational and more conversational”.
Emanuel said the cities they examined shared a common tie of having “gone through a change with the Department of Justice”.
Officers will be trained to establish time and distance on the scene to allow for “more prudent thinking and physical space to allow for a safer environment”, Escalante said.
Many of Emanuel’s opponents criticize the mayor, who is a close friend and former colleague of U.S. President Barack Obama, for only acting when a crisis erupts and not working to end decades of police abuse in the city. The police have stated that Jones’ shooting was accidental. Emanuel also announced that any officer involved in a shooting would be give 30 days of desk duty, instead of the current three days.
The news comes as Chicago officials scramble to deal with what critics have slammed as a police culture of “shoot first and ask questions later”.
A 24-year-old man was shot in the chest a few minutes after 2 a.m.in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood – a few blocks north of the University of Chicago, according to police. Van Dyke was charged with murder 13 months after the shooting and just before the video was released to the public.
The Republican says, “This tragedy further underscores the need for a broad and deep federal investigation, which I continue to strongly support”.
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“There’s a problem that has to be addressed”, Emanuel said.
