Chicago Police Chief Fired In Aftermath Of Laquan McDonald Shooting

“Hillary Clinton is deeply troubled by the shooting of Laquan McDonald and the outstanding questions related to both the shooting and the video”, spokesperson Brian Fallon said in a statement.

Mayor Emanuel spoke candidly during a Politico event on Wednesday morning, the day after Garry McCarthy was sacked from the Chicago Police Department.

On Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel says the reason the video was not released sooner was because of fear of federal and state investigation in the shooting of McDonald. “Trust in the Chicago Police Department is broken”. According to the Wall Street Journal, there has been no comment so far from any Chicago police spokesmen about this initial statement.

Van Dyke reportedly shot McDonald 16 times.

“We would drive around, and he would speak out of the window, ‘Hey, n*****, get over here!'” he said.

Emanuel announced Tuesday that he had dismissed Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and has created a task force for police accountability and the expanded use of body cameras.

The DOJ, which is now investigating the Baltimore Police Department, has investigated 67 police agencies since it was given authorization to do so in 1994, said PBS.

Emanuel defended his loyalty, saying the circumstances had changed. Police misconduct cases are handled by the Special Litigation Section of the department’s Civil Rights Division.

If Mayor Emanuel is really serious about his stated desire to rebuild “public trust” he needs to do two other things and do those two things quickly.

In response to the turmoil over how Laquan was killed, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked for the resignation of the Chicago Police Superintendent, as CNNreported.

On Tuesday, Emanuel suggested that McCarthy went from being a key player in the story of Chicago law enforcement to being the story itself.

That said, he and other retired officers want the U.S. Justice Department to launch a civil rights investigation of the department’s policies and practices in light of the McDonald case.

Emanuel, who was elected to a second term in April, said in the interview that he had no plans to step down over the shooting and its aftermath. And though it has been more than 13 months since McDonald’s death, and the city has since reached a $5 million settlement with the family, Emanuel said he had not watched the footage personally until it was eventually made public last week.

Jason Van Dyke, the white police officer who shot McDonald on October 20 of a year ago, has been charged with murder and is out on bail.

Police have said McDonald was carrying a knife, and an autopsy revealed that he had PCP, a hallucinogenic drug, in his system.

She echoed the call today of many editorial boards who say the public will never know for sure whether accountability and discipline exist in the CPD unless the feds do what’s called a patterns and practices investigation, like they did in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri.