Mayor returning to Chicago after police shooting

“The night of Christmas everybody was playing spades, drinking, having fun, celebrating Christmas like many Chicago families”, Jahmal Cole, Jones’ nephew, said Sunday.

“The 55-year-old female victim was accidentally struck and tragically killed”, a statement from the police read.

The police said LeGrier was combative and swinging a metal bar, and said that Jones was sacked at by mistake. She was the mother of four daughters and a son, her brother said.

McDonald’s and other high-profile police killings drove hundreds of protesters to block Chicago’s retail district on Black Friday, the U.S.’s post-Thanksgiving sales event.

Noting that “there are serious questions” about the shootings “that must be answered in full by the Independent Police Review Authority’s investigation”, Emanuel on Sunday called for changes in how Chicago police are trained, the Sun-Times reported.

The mayor said he had asked IPRA to review police training for interacting with mentally ill people, in response to claims that emotional problems or mental illness may have contributed to LeGrier’s behavior that led to his father’s police call.

That may not be enough to quell protesters Monday.

The mayor’s office billed the homecoming as Emanuel “cutting his family trip short”, but did not immediately respond to questions on how long Emanuel was scheduled to be in Cuba, when he left and when he originally was slated to return.

“Some of us may be interested in calling for his resignation if we thought he would”, Hatch said. “I’m going to come back, close my door and get back in my bed'”. There’s a crisis in the city….

They were referring to the fact it took 13 months before authorities released surveillance video of the 17-year-old’s shooting. The LeGrier suit in Cook County Circuit Court contends Quintonio LeGrier never had a weapon and never threatened anyone before police fired. He has pleaded not guilty and is out of jail on bond.

“Deadly force should have been used as a last resort and not a first resort”, retired police sergeant Cheryl Dorsey told CNN, asking why Tasers had not been used to subdue LeGrier. Jones and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were killed early Saturday by police responding to a domestic d…

Sam Adam Jr., a lawyer for the Jones family, said police took the hard drive of a home-security camera from across the street, but it was unknown if it or other cameras in the neighborhood captured the shootings.

A spokeswoman said Monday the department couldn’t comment beyond a statement issued Sunday because the shooting is under investigation. But at a news conference Sunday, LeGrier’s mother, Janet Cooksey, told reporters that her son was not violent or troubled.

“Right now there’s a whole lot of anger, a whole lot of tears”, said her brother Melvin Jones. “No mother should have to bury her child”.

“Rudy Giuliani would be on the scene and get hourly briefings”, said Sharpton, but called Emanuel’s lack of reaction “the height of arrogance”.

When Chicago police arrived, Quintonio LeGrier reportedly came charging down the stairs towards police carrying the bat.

Relatives of both shooting victims have questioned why police opened fire and if the situation could have been handled another way.

Janet Cooksey, the mother of LeGrier, told CNN affiliate WLS that her son died of several gunshot wounds. Both deaths were ruled homicides, the medical examiner said. Most of the shots were fired as the boy lay motionless on the ground. Authorities have not released many details in the shooting, and it was unknown whether video of the incident exists.

Many people in Chicago – already reeling from other recent incidents in which the police are said to have been too ready to pull the trigger – condemned the shootings. He has not been identified.