Some of the emails released also included messages in which officials questioned how they should respond to demands for the dashcam footage of the officer shooting McDonald, according to the Associated Press. McDonald, armed with a knife, is seen veering away from Van Dyke in the video before the veteran officer starts firing. Van Dyke has pleaded not guilty to murder. The Chicago Police Department, already the subject of a federal civil rights investigation over its use of deadly force and other issues, has admitted the woman’s death was an accident.
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The video, which was not made public until November 24, led to weeks of protests and repeated calls for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign.
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Additionally, Emanuel said Chicago police will “double the number of tasers to 1400 while also providing officers in training to use them properly”. Protesters are calling for changes within the CPD and the resignation of Emanuel, as well as Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez.
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Last weekend, police shot and killed a 19-year-old Northern Illinois University student and his 55-year-old neighbor, Bettie Jones. His office said he cut his trip short and returned to Chicago Tuesday. John Escalante and the head of Chicago’s Independent Police Review Authority, Sharon Fairley, to review the department’s crisis intervention and de-escalation policies.
Reform plans include proper taser training that will equip 1,400 cops with the device and a mandatory desk-duty sentence of 30 days for any officer involved in a shooting. Collins says, “We take this matter very seriously and the incident is under review”.
“What we are doing is injecting some humanity into the work of the police department and the police officers”, Emanuel told reporters. “It’s not just as simple as ‘Let’s put Tasers on police officers.’ But because of the erosion of trust in the community, [Rahm]’s always in a reactionary mode”.
Thirty days before Mayor Rahm Emanuel faced the biggest test of his political life, City Hall received a blockbuster letter from attorneys representing Laquan McDonald, accusing police of making a series of false statements and even intimidating at least one witness who saw the Chicago teenager fatally shot by Officer Jason Van Dyke.
Emanuel said the cities they examined shared a common tie of having “gone through a change with the Department of Justice”.
The video was withheld from public view for more than a year and released only under judicial order.
“The goal is to change the way officers think when they approach a critical incident by establishing time and distance to allow for more prudent thinking and physical space to promote a safer environment”, he said.
Emanuel pledged training to make police encounters with citizens “less confrontational and more conversational”.
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Mental-health advocates tell the station that it has been pressuring the Emanuel administration for years to increase training, but there’s been no money for new training classes since last summer. Garry McCarthy touted police training on the use of force and confronting violent offenders.
