Lawmaker backing Rahm Emanuel recall: ‘This is the people’s house’

But prosecutors acknowledge that Williams failed to identify the alleged assailant in a photo lineup. “We have a long road ahead of us as a city, and I welcome people from many views to help us do what exactly we need to do”. The documents provided by Chicago police have been under heavy scrutiny because they contradict what video footage released late last month shows.

“The application is comprehensive in nature”, Lightfoot said in a statement.

According to Dart’s office one officer still went to McDonald’s side and “offered him words of comfort” until an ambulance arrived.

They marched from the Chicago Federal Building to City Hall, passing downtown stores.

Alvarez, in the midst of a tough re-election fight, dis-missed claims by Oppenheimer that a gun had been planted by Chicago police at the scene, saying it was unsupported by the evidence.

Protesters engage Chicago police officers during a march calling for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to resign in the wake of a police scandal, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, in Chicago.

“Sixteen shots and a cover-up!” they chanted, the common rallying cry evoking the number of times McDonald was shot.

Criticism of Alvarez grew when she formally charged Officer Jason Van Dyke with McDonald’s killing, but did so the same day the city released the McDonald video.

The Chicago Tribune reported (http://trib.in/1mdBbQs) Thursday that the first officer to arrive wasn’t part of any investigation until the FBI tracked him down months later.

Police and police union officials said after the shooting thatMcDonald, who was holding a knife and had PCP in his system when he was killed, lunged at Van Dyke. The protest, broadcast by local media, called for Emanuel’s resignation, as did hundreds of demonstrators who shut down city streets on Wednesday.

Dart aide Cara Smith tells the Tribune that neither filed police reports.

Emanuel’s efforts to appease critics since the release of the video have done little, and now the city streets are filled with protesters.

If there is any good to come out of this horrific incident, it has caused us to re-examine how we handle cases of police misconduct and excessive force in Chicago.

The city also came to an agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union earlier this year on fixing its use of controversial “stop and frisk” searches in which police targeted African Americans for 72% of searches.

The alliance turned over a list of dozens of cases, including shootings of teenagers by officers and what the group describes as coerced confessions and torture. “The video of a police shooting like this in Chicago could have buried Mr. Emanuel’s chances for re-election”. But in every new twist and turn of the McDonald shooting, Emanuel has appeared to act only after he was backed into a corner by political pressure.

Protestors were not sastifised with the apology.

Chief John Escalante, McCarthy’s deputy, will lead the department until a new superintendent is appointed.

The police board says it will review applications and nominate three candidates for consideration by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

CHICAGO Protests continued in Chicago on Thursday starting with a “die-in” by medical students, a day after embattled Mayor Rahm Emanuel emotionally apologized for the 2014 police shooting of a 17-year-old black teen.

There have been regular calls for Emanuel’s resignation since officials released footage showing a white police officer fatally shooting a black teenager in 2014.

But mending relationships takes time, and as the protests on the streets of Emanuel’s beloved city make clear, the time for honest action from Chicago’s mayor might have already passed in the eyes of those who matter.

“The protesters refuse to accept Mayor Emanuel’s attempts to placate the public in the aftermath of disclosures about the Mayor’s Office’s suppression of public release of information of the police murdering Laquan McDonald”.