“I also directed interim Superintendent Escalante and acting head of IPRA, Independent Police Review Authority, Sharon Fairley, to review the crisis response policies that are in place so that we can see what needs improvement and what needs to be changed”.
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The attack comes days after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surprise visit to Lahore, Pakistan on December 25. Indian security forces intercepted the gunmen, and two of the militants died in the ensuing gunfight.
Two dozen people protested at Emanuel’s home Wednesday evening, calling on him to resign and chanting – “16 shots and a cover up”.
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Public trust is eroded in the police department, and there’s been a pall over the holiday season with the release of the Laquan McDonald video, which shows a white police officer pumping 16 bullets into a black teenager.
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The Chicago Police Department has come under intense criticism since the release last month of graphic footage of the shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
In Chicago, protesters at City Hall on Thursday punched a papier mache effigy of the mayor’s face and chanted “Hey, hey!”
Bettie Jones, a 55-year-old mother-of-five was shot “accidentally”, police said, as officers opened fire on, and killed, 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier, who they said was being “combative” toward officers.
Van Dyke, who has been charged with first-degree murder, has pleaded innocent to the charges.
Emanuel has denied ever seeing the video prior to its release, a contention many activists have said they do not believe.
The risk that a publicly released video could blow up not just locally but also nationally was made by lawyers from McDonald’s family, who reached out to the city about a settlement in early 2015, just over a month before Emanuel’s re-election. “It is absolutely critical in this case, as in all police-involved shootings, for the investigative agency to get it right so that justice can be served”.
More significantly, the release stressed “major reforms” and “policy revisions” that have been announced by the department in the wake of the McDonald video, such as implementing training for officers to “resolve confrontations using the least force necessary” and equipping every responding officer with Tasers by June 1.
“Our police officers have a very hard and unsafe job. And like all of us, they are human and they make mistakes”, the mayor said.
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He said it’s important to focus on the fundamental issues underlying violence, citing the need to control the illegal gun market and supply jobs for youth.
