Chicago Protests Began as a Fake Facebook Event

“But it also is an historic opportunity to confront an issue that has been around for generations”, said David Axelrod, a longtime Chicagoan who, as former senior adviser to Obama, worked closely with both the President and Emanuel.

Chicago has been in a state of unrest since the release of dashboard-camera footage of the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, and on Wednesday morning Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to calm the situation by apologizing for police misconduct that took place on his watch. “They should be addressed immediately”.

But Emanuel isn’t likely to slink away.

“If someone’s on the ledge and you push him off, it’s homicide”.

Protestors were not sastifised with the apology.

“This speech probably made things worse for him with every constituency except for his lap dog City Council”, tweeted Mariame Kaba, founder and director of Project NIA, which works to end youth incarceration. Additionally, at the request of the task force, the city will appoint a senior officer for civil rights at the Chicago Police Department with clear authority to implement the recommendations of the task force and ultimately the Department of Justice.

In other words, there’s leverage right now. His speech was disingenuous and he didn’t address the real reason why he sat on the video for 13 months, to win reelection.

Emanuel has emphatically denied keeping the tape under wraps to get past the election. Another essay question notes the “number of highly publicized cases involving use of force by officers in Chicago”.

It lead to rallies for Emanuel’s recall Wednesday that earned national attention.

Demonstrators, who called for Emanuel to step down, confronted a line of police before the officers stepped aside and let them through as they flooded the streets.

Emanuel’s standing in the city has taken a beating since the release of the video.

Federal charges were filed Wednesday in Minneapolis against another young Somali man from the Twin Cities, alleging that he conspired to provide material support to the terrorist organization known as… “This is not a racial issue, it’s a democracy issue”, she said Thursday.

Hundreds took part in the protest. Many residents distrustful that authorities had covered up the circumstances of the shooting, developed even more cynical when the city released other squad vehicle dashcam videos from the scene that, like the first, lacked sound. “Sixteen shots!” in reference to the McDonald case.

“We need to get justice, and there’s only one kind of justice that means anything that those who have perpetrated these murders and those who have systematically covered it up have to be indicted and prosecuted”, Lou Downey, who was present in the gallery and at the demonstration, said. Protesters have also called for the resignation of Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, who has been criticised for taking more than a year to charge Van Dyke. It could be that he will simply be the last domino to fall.

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

Emanuel, who once expressed his displeasure by sending a fish carcass to a pollster, earned the nickname “Rahmbo” for his brutal tactics as a political operative.

Last week, Earnest said that “by commenting on this at great length, I think would be viewed by some as improperly interfering with an ongoing independent criminal investigation”.

For Emanuel, this crisis is an unwanted opportunity to show that he can govern as well as he plays politics.