Police in Chicago are to receive new equipment and training on how to defuse tensions following a spate of fatal shootings of African-Americans by officers, the city’s mayor has said.
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About two dozen protesters gathered at Union Station Friday to protest recent police shooting deaths including Quintonio LeGrier, Bettie Jones and Laquan McDonald. The emails released Thursday do not appear to contradict Emanuel’s claim, though they indicate serious concern at City Hall that the video could present a major public-relations problem. “That’s a change from three days”, said Emanuel on Wednesday.
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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. A statement from the organizers say the latest deaths demonstrate Emanuel’s response to police shootings “continues to be fundamentally inadequate”. Mayor Emanuel and Chicago police have been under heavy scrutiny since the city, under court order, released a squad auto video last month showing Officer Jason Van Dyke shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald in October 2014.
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Mr Van Dyke has since been. His subject line on a December 10, 2014, email to fellow Emanuel staffers included the headline in one Chicago newspaper: “If Chicago police have video of teen shooting, let’s see it: advocates”.
McDonald was shot 16 times by Chicago police in October 2014, as he walked away from officers while carrying a knife.
Though the Independent Police Review Authority, or IPRA, is supposed to maintain a distance from police and the mayor’s office, a March 11 email from Ando inquires about forwarding witness interview transcripts to the law department “for their use in settlement negotiations with” the McDonald family.
The top prosecutor also stressed that her office “does not control the pace or process of IPRA” and that the investigative agency needs “to get it right so that justice can be served”.
“If we focus on those, year to year we may go up or down depending on what’s going on”, Pollack said, “but over time I’m convinced that we can bring the [murder] rate down”.
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In his press conference one day later, Emanuel suggested that if officers had tasers in their patrol cars, perhaps police would have had an option other than deadly force.
