Chicago police scandal: Rahm Emanuel’s resignation demanded

“With release of this video it’s really important for public safety that the citizens of Chicago know that this officer is being held responsible for his actions”, she told Reuters in November. “Each time when we confronted it in the past, Chicago only went far enough to clear our consciences so we could move on”, he said.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has adamantly said he won’t resign from office, even as (figurative) calls for his head and evidence of entrenched misconduct within Chicago’s police force continue to mount.

“People are hurt, people have died, people feel that they are forgotten about in the city of Chicago”, the Chicago Democrat added. The officers detained him briefly, pushing their way through a crowd of people who blocked their path as they tried to put Reccord into a police van.

“Your speech touched me because of what happened to me trying to come to work today to do my job”, she told the mayor.

The White House says the President last visited with Emanuel during a trip to Chicago in October, but hasn’t consulted the mayor about the recent protests.

The mayor’s voice cracked several times during the speech, and he appeared to be near tears when he described meeting with a young man who had several run-ins with police. “The apology was also for the process of healing”.

“I’m a keep on fighting”, she said, “because if it was left up to me, she’d need a DOC (Department of Corrections) suit on”.

“Each time he comes home, my heart is in my throat in case he meets up with a racist cop”, Davis said.

A number of families who say their loved ones were shot and killed by police are filing a complaint with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago to demand a complete investigation of their cases as well.

The McDonald footage – ordered to be released by a judge last month and made public hours after Van Dyke was charged – set off a chain of events that captured the attention of the country. A review by the city’s quasi-independent police watchdog agency showed that of 409 shootings involving police since 2007, the agency found only two with credible allegations against an officer.

That DOJ investigation was initially called “misguided” by Emanuel, but a day after the local McDonald investigation wrapped up, he flipped to welcoming the feds.

Cook County’s chief prosecutor, Anita Alvarez, admits the timing of the charges against the officer involved are to make the shooting less of a scandal. It was announced Monday and will look to determine whether there are patterns of racial disparity in the police department’s use of force.

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

Making matters worse was the fact that, at the beginning of all this, Emanuel suggested the shooting was the act of a single bad apple – not, as The Washington Post editorial board noted, the act of a police department that fatally shoots more people than any other in the nation.