Police Board Begins Nationwide Search for New Chicago Police Superintendent

For the past two weeks there have been ongoing demonstrations over McDonald’s death and other alleged police brutality incidents in the city.

“This is not a black problem, this is a democracy problem”. “We have to be as one, that’s the only way we can fix this”.

Under these circumstances Emanuel is carefully weighing what evidence of police misconduct they can keep hidden and what should be volunteered to the public to mitigate the political impact. “I expect the bill to get a vote, I expect the bill to be heard”, she said, adding that she expects it to be signed into law. “I’m exhausted of mothers crying”. “‘Sorry’ isn’t going to bring those kids back”, she told the Chicago Tribune. All (Emanuel) is doing is talking.

The first of Wednesday’s protests, by a group called the Coalition for a New Chicago, is planned for 8 a.m. inside City Hall. He also announced the creation of a “Task force on Police Accountability”.

Some protesters are carrying signs with photographs of people shot and killed by police officers. There’s fear in our youth. “They’re protecting criminal cops”, he said. Many of them were shouting, “Rahm, resign!” “What did Rahm know, and when did he know it?!”

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has apologized for the 2014 killing of a black teenager who was shot 16 times by a white police officer.

After many more viewed coverage of the speech on TV and online, the biting responses came swiftly. And it’s a very hard one, given the dangers in parts of the city – a fact that not all citizens grasp, according to the mayor. But that will change if Democratic State Representatives La Shawn Ford and Mary Flowers have anything to say about it.

“How can you not do something?”

Brown said she was battling laryngitis and stressing over finals earlier this week when she created a seemingly incendiary Facebook event. “You see it every day”. I was surprised, but I’m happy there could be some real change. “And it would likely have ended the career of the police superintendent, Garry F. McCarthy”, the Times opined.

“It’s time for the city to take care of the entire city not just the rich and the wealthy”, said Singleton.

In the wake of the release of the video, Emanuel fired his Police Chief but rebuffed calls for his own resignation. She came under scrutiny last spring after a Cook County judge acquitted Detective Dante Servin in the fatal shooting of Rekia Boyd in 2012.

Video showing the shooting of 17-year-old McDonald, which eventually led to a first degree murder charge against Officer Jason Van Dyke, was withheld from the public and only released after a court order.

Van Dyke is accused of shooting McDonald 16 times, but it took a year for the video to be released.

“We can either be defined by what we have failed to do or what we need to do”, the mayor said, telling the alderman that “nothing can excuse” what happened to McDonald.

Several well-connected Chicagoans, including musician David Beltran, asked Brown to help administer the page and promote the protest, the Chicago Reader reported. “The apology was also for the process of healing”. “We don’t want your apology! If they don’t give us what we want, we’re gonna give them hell”.

Squad cars and police SUVs were stationed on streets in the city’s downtown district, where many office buildings and shops are located.

One by one, protesters took to the mic with their gripes surrounding the controversial cases of Rekia Boyd, Laquan McDonald and Ronald Johnson.

Numerous protests have focused on Emanuel – with placards stating, “Rahm, resign” – as well as on criticism of Chicago Prosecutor Anita Alvarez. Enlarge Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez.

“It was one of the saddest things I’ve ever seen”, she told the News.

Also in attendance was Martinez Sutton, the brother of Rekia Boyd, who briefly addressed the crowd outside the station after the meeting adjourned.