1 after another, Chicago police videos made public

Earlier in the day Emanuel stood before the city council and accepted responsibility for his handling of the shooting, offering an emotional apology.

“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.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel apologized for the 2014 shooting of a black teenager Wednesday during a special City Council meeting that he called to discuss a police abuse scandal at the center of the biggest crisis of his administration, promising “complete and total” reform to restore trust in the police.

But Oppenheimer, who in October 2014 filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of Johnson’s family, said Alvarez appeared to have relied exclusively on the flawed investigation done by the Independent Police Review Authority, which investigates police shootings, and never seriously considered charges against the officer.

The Justice Department investigation was to look into patterns of racial disparity in the use of force.

There’s also Ronald Johnson, killed by police eight days before McDonald.

Former IPRA investigator Lorenzo Davis, who says he was sacked after refusing to reverse findings that one fatal police shooting wasn’t justified, argues that the body is often focused more on whitewashing police brutality than disciplining and weeding out bad cops.

Wednesday night, they took their concerns to police headquarters to address what they’re calling a poor quality of life for many.

It is critical that the Justice Department now examine not only the police force, where a culture of impunity and a code of silence are deeply ingrained, but also Chicago’s entire system. On the same day the grisly video was released, the county prosecutor charged the officer in question, Jason Van Dyke, who is white, with the murder of McDonald.

Given that 51% of respondents in a poll this week want Emanuel to resign, that’s not much of a threshold.

Obama’s own home, in leafy Hyde Park, sits just 10 miles from the far grittier stretch of Pulaski Road where McDonald was gunned down by police more than a year ago.

Alvarez and Assistant State’s Attorney Lynn McCarthy spent more than 30 minutes detailing evidence before showing the dashcam video, which similarly to the McDonald case has no audio.

This story has been corrected to show the name of the new head of the Independent Police Review Authority is Sharon Fairley, not Fairly.

It contributed to Garry McCarthy losing his job as Chicago’s police superintendent and spurred calls for Emanuel to resign. She said she’s resented the mayor ever since he oversaw, in 2013, the largest school closure in the city’s history.

Also yesterday, about 1,000 Chicagoans took part in protests around the city and even down the Magnificent Mile, Downtown’s major shopping thoroughfare where participants were trailed by CNN, MSNBC and other news outlets.

After many more viewed coverage of the speech on TV and online, the biting responses came swiftly.

The group chanted “Whose city?”