Essay Question For Chicago Police Supt. Candidates: ‘What Does Accountability

For years, watchdogs, lawyers and journalists have documented instances of police misconduct, including violent episodes caught on video and then subjected to the same silent treatment that almost buried the death of black teenager Laquan McDonald, who was shot to death by a white Chicago police officer in October 2014.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today delivered a special address on police accountability to the City Council that laid out a roadmap to restore the public’s trust in the police department.

“It just shows that if you’re a black man in the city of Chicago, you’re found guilty before you go to a judge”, Vega said, crying.

This is the latest in a series of protests that have rocked the city since dash cam video appearing to show police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting McDonald was released last month.

Prosecutors announced they were charging Van Dyke on the same day that the video was released by the city, more than 13 months after McDonald was gunned down on a city street. A Guardian investigation exposed in February that Chicago police have the equivalent of a domestic black site where they allegedly torture detainees who they often hold illegally and keep from legal counsel. “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”. “Rahm Emanuel for many of us is a cancer to Chicago”.

“If they would’ve indicted the officer who killed my son, there would’ve have been no Laquan McDonald”, Emmett Farmer said.

The federal “pattern-and-practice” investigation, as it is called, will look into whether city officers have made a habit of violating the law or the Constitution while on the beat, according to Attorney General Loretta Lynch.

On Monday, during a lengthy news conference in which she outlined why Hernandez was justified in shooting Johnson in the back, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez released the video. And I’m committed to making the changes the city desperately needs.

On Wednesday Ford and Flowers filed HB4356, a bill that would allow for a recall election of the mayor.

On Wednesday protesters flooded downtown Chicago and tried to storm two buildings, chanting “Fire Rahm!” in part of a citywide walkout. Additionally, politics has worked its way to the mayor’s office, with the heavy insinuation that Emanuel’s officer didn’t want the police shooting released because he was in re-election mode.

The new bill says a recall election can be started by petitions signed by 15 percent or more of the total number of voters who voted in the previous election for mayor.

But fixing this isn’t simply a matter of prosecuting Van Dyke or giving McDonald’s family money (the Chicago City Council approved a $5 million settlement in April).

Later that night, the city released yet another video showing an inmate being dragged out of his cell by his handcuffed wrists.

CHICAGO IS FACING a defining moment on the issues of crime and policing and the even larger issues of truth and justice.

The description says: ‘Chicagoans from across the city will walk out of work and school and converge on Daley Plaza at noon on Wednesday to demand the resignation of the Mayor and the State’s Attorney.

“It is the kind of thing that I think the President intends to speak about more freely once he is the former President of the United States”, Earnest said.

Protesters who have been calling for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation also have another target: a much-criticized, quasi-independent agency that was created to investigate complaints against police officers but has rarely ruled against them.

On Tuesday, the new head of the review board said she was reopening the investigation into Coleman’s case.